RunCoCo blog
This is the official blog of RunCoCo – a service based at the Academic IT Services, University of Oxford. We work with community collection and crowdsourcing projects and offer advice, training, and support to those looking for new ways of working with the public for impact, outreach, and engagement. For more information about our work, the projects we are involved with and the training and support we provide, please visit our website: http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
Your Freedom – more government crowdsourcing
A new government crowdsourcing initiative was launched on July 1: Your Freedom. This time we are invited to participate to “create a more open and less intrusive society” by suggesting “ideas for removing laws and regulations”. The way it works … Continue reading
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Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing
There’s a workshop on Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing at the UbiComp 2010 conference (26-29 September 2010, Copenhagen). The deadline for submitting online abstracts for the workshop is July 15 (and July 22 for the paper itself): “In this workshop we will discuss … Continue reading
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New discussion list – Woruldhord
A new Google Group has been set up to discuss Oxford University’s Project Woruldhord. This is a community collection project where the public (from any nation) are asked to submit items related to the study of the Anglo-Saxons or Old … Continue reading
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The Budget Challenge
The new budget was launched this week and, as expected, cuts are called for in many areas. Also called for, although not in the budget as such, is public engagement in issues related to the budget. The Spending Challenge In … Continue reading
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AccessTEI: discounted digitisation / transcription service
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has launched a new digitisation program to help members who want to have material transcribed and encoded, (as reported in the JISC Digitisation blog). Through the AccessTEI program, members can submit documents in different formats, … Continue reading
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Why should we include patients and the public in research?
That question was asked on Wednesday by Dr Mark Sheehan, Oxford BRC Ethics Fellow at the Ethox Centre and a James Martin Research Fellow in the Program of Ethics of the New Biosciences, in a talk at the James Martin … Continue reading
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Ephemera on radio
The Bodleian Library online resource the John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera was talked about on Radio 4’s Saturday Review (12 June 2010 from 21.00-30.00 mins through the programme). This will be available online on the BBC i-Player … Continue reading
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AddressingHistory
AddressingHistory is an interesting example of how a project can use good, digitised material and community engagement to produce new resources. The project, run by Edina in partnership with the National Library of Scotland, is creating an online tool for … Continue reading
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Mapping Crime
This week RunCoCo took part in a project board meeting for Mapping Crime. We were offering some expertise in user-generated content but particularly in user-engagement, to the project manager David Tomkins. This project will see the Bodleian Library map between … Continue reading
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A time traveller visits
Chris Wild, the self-styled Retronaut, visited RunCoCo in Oxford. This meeting has taken almost 6 months to arrange as for a number of (sometimes comedic) reasons all our previous engagements have fallen through. Today, Chris gave us an insight into … Continue reading
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