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Suggested reading
Those interested in community collections, First World War material or history research may want to look at this article by our colleague and friend Dr. Stephen Bull. As the first in a series of three articles on crowdsourcing, Stephen discusses … Continue reading
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Working with local museums
Being placed in Oxford, RunCoCo are fortunate to have a number of excellent museums more or less on our doorstep. We do enjoy working with these when the opportunity arises. This summer we had the pleasure to be involved with … Continue reading
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40 Years, 40 Objects: Celebrating the Stories of a City and its People
This weekend, the Museum of Oxford held their first ever Community Collecting Day. The people of Oxford were asked to search their attics and bottom drawers for objects that hold personal memories of the city from the last 40 years … Continue reading
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Museums and the Web 2015 workshop references
These are the references from my workshop “Crowdsourcing user-generated content: using the Oxford Community Collection Model to engage audiences and create collections” (at MW2015, the annual conference of Museums and the Web, April 8-11, 2015, Chicago). I will occasionally be … Continue reading
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Europeana 1914-1918
For the last four-and-a-half years, much of our time has been spent on the Europeana 1914-1918 project. Using the Oxford Community Collection Model, the project has created a large archive comprising over 13,000 stories and 170,000 digital images relating to … Continue reading
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Shaping Europe
This week we found ourselves working in a slightly different space. For a few days, crews from Europeana, Facts & Files, and RunCoCo set up camp in the European Parliament in Brussels to run the ‘Shaping Europe’ event. Members of … Continue reading
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Oxfordshire Family History Fair
Getting started with your family history research or looking to add further to your tree? Then why not come along to the Oxfordshire Family History Society’s Family History Fair on Saturday 4th October at The Marlborough School, Woodstock, OX20 1LP … Continue reading
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Reading Roadshow
On Sunday 10 August, members of the public were invited to Reading Museum to share their family stories and memorabilia from the First World War. Subject experts were on hand to help identify the objects brought in and record the … Continue reading
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Have you got a ‘citizen humanities’ crowdsourcing idea for the Zooniverse?
The Constructing Scientific Communities project, part of the AHRC’s Science in Culture theme, is inviting proposals for citizen science or ‘citizen humanities’ projects to be developed as part of the Zooniverse.org platform. Proposals are welcome from researchers whose work would benefit from … Continue reading
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Letter to an Unknown Soldier: A Unique, Contemporary Form of Community Collection
If you had the chance to write to a soldier serving in World War One, what would you say, considering all your own experience of life and death post 1914 to hand? As more and more events and exhibitions are being … Continue reading