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/
Cross-searching workshop in Bristol
The Visualising China Project is hosting a one-day workshop at the ILRT in Bristol on Tuesday 21st September, with presentations and discussion on the topic of cross-searching distributed, interrelated, online resources. The workshop will tackle topics such as harvesting protocols … Continue reading
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Digital Content Quarterly
Digital Content Quarterly is a magazine published in print and online by the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA): “an initiative created to support citizens in gaining best value from the public investment made in digital content”. The Strategic Content Alliance works … Continue reading
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Archives Outside: not only for archivists
The Archives Outside blog describes itself as a meeting place for people who care for archival collections in New South Wales and researchers who wish to access them. As such, it may be easy to think that is may not … 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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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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JISC announces Community Content Call: Strand II winners
Congratulations to the five projects that will be funded under the JISC Grant 13/09: BCE, e-Content & Digitisation call for Community Content, Strand II (developing community content aims to build new digital collections, or transform existing collections through genuine co-creation … Continue reading
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How to evaluate the worth of a community archive initiative?
RunCoCo has just had an interesting meeting with a Phd student from UCL (‘We think, not I think’: Harnessing collaborative creativity to archival practice; implications of user participation for archival theory and practice [PDF]). Links to draw between ideas we’ve … Continue reading
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JISC announces Community Content Call: Strand I winners
Congratulations to the five projects that will be funded under the JISC 13/09 call for Community Content, Strand I (rapid innovation for existing resources): Digitizing data for disparate communities: Naval history and climate science, Dr Chris Lintott, University of Oxford … Continue reading
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Europeana.eu
RunCoCo is working with Europeana.eu, an EU-funded portal to digital objects, images, text, sound and film on the Internet. Europeana are moving ahead with plans for user-generated-content and community collections. Initially, we will meet their developers to try to ‘brain-dump’ … Continue reading
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JISC funding reinstated for ‘co-developing’ community content
The details are a little sketchy but JISC announces today that the formerly stalled invitation for proposals for Co-development of Content is open again, closing date 15 March. This is the Strand II of the Grant 13/09: BCE, e-Content & … Continue reading
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