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/
Milky Way – new Zooniverse site
Do you want to explore the Milky Way? Now you can do that while at the same time helping astronomers with their research. The Milky Way project aims to sort and measure our galaxy, the Milky Way, by examining infrared … Continue reading
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My Leicestershire Digital Archive
My Leicestershire Digital Archive is a collaborative project bringing together digital resources relating to the history of Leicestershire and make these available online. Project partners include University of Leicester Library, the East Midlands Oral History Archive, the Media Archive for … Continue reading
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JISC: Digital Content Partnerships
The JISC e-Content Programme currently has two funding calls: JISC Grant Funding 11/10: eContent Programme and JISC Grant Funding 16/10: Rapid Digitisation, both with submission deadline on December 10, 2010 – a deadline that is fast approaching. The 11/10 eContent … Continue reading
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BBC gallery: Welsh Voices of the Great War Online
For Armistice Day 2010, BBC Wales published a slideshow of images from the Welsh Voices of the Great War Online collection. The 26 images in the slideshow were selected from the growing collection being gathered by the Welsh Voices project. … Continue reading
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Sustainability for Digital Content
We are very pleased to welcome Sarah Fahmy (Strategic Content Alliance) and Alastair Dunning (JISC) to the RunCoCo workshop in Leeds on November 3rd 2010. Sarah and Alastair will be leading an interactive session on Sustainability for Digital Content. This … Continue reading
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Crime report
Last week Melissa Highton (RunCoCo’s director) attended the academic advisory group of the Mapping Crime project. (RunCoCo blogged about the previous meeting in May 2010.) With this project the Bodleian Library is providing links between the crime material available through … Continue reading
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19th century children’s hospital records
The Historic Hospital Admission Registers Project (HHARP) is a useful example of how volunteers can help make material that would otherwise be hidden from most users widely available online. As further shown below, it is also a good case study … Continue reading
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Speaking at the Flemish Parliament
Alun Edwards, manager of RunCoCo, is speaking at the European Congress on E Inclusion 2010 ‘Delivering Digital Europe in Public Libraries’, 20-21 September 2010. ECEI10 is an invitation-only meeting for about 250 delegates to be held in the Flemish Parliament, … Continue reading
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Transcribe Bentham
Transcribe Bentham is inviting participants to what they call “the first major crowdsourcing transcription project”. The Transcribe Bentham Project, based at University College London, has produced digital images of a large selection of original and unstudied manuscript papers written by … Continue reading
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Communities remember Scotland at War
Recently Museums Galleries Scotland launched the website Remembering Scotland at War, the result of a three-year collaboration with museums and galleries across Scotland funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Most interesting from the perspective of the RunCoCo project is the … Continue reading
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