Curiouser & Curiouser

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

Spring may feel far away on a bleak November day but it doesn’t mean we cannot look ahead and plan for things to come. Curiouser & Curiouser : Challenging Convention and Celebrating the Unusual in Museums and Heritage is a … Continue reading →

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JISC: Digital Content Partnerships

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

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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AddressingHistory launch event

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

The JISC-funded AddressingHistory project is having its official launch on November 17 2010. The event will take place in the National Library of Scotland and the programme features a range of exciting talks related to Scottish history by projects that … Continue reading →

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80% of people who use archives are family historians

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Alun Edwards

There’s a drive in the US to make October “family history month“, and tweets from this week’s OCLC special meeting “Moving the Past into the Future: Special Collections in a Digital Age” declared… “80% of people who use archives are … Continue reading →

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Developing online resources course

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

GEM (Group for Education in Museums) is organising a training day on October 18 2010 on the theme Developing Online Resources. Planning, evaluating, creating and testing online resources including for whiteboards. GEM website The event is held at the Fleet … Continue reading →

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What’s your message? RunCoCo’s crowdsourcing lessons from The Great War Archive

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Alun Edwards

It’s academic conference season. You know what you are going to say – but how do you coach someone else to deliver your message? This post looks at some of the conferences we’ve spoken at and what RunCoCo‘s message has … Continue reading →

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OpenCulture: collection management event

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

Registration is now open for the OpenCulture 2011, an annual collections management event. The event will take place in The Custard Factory in Birmingham on the 7th and 8th June 2011 and it is aimed at anyone who manages a collection:  … Continue reading →

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Speaking at the Flemish Parliament

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

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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GLAM-WIKI conference

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

Registration is now open for the GLAM-WIKI 2010 conference. The conference offers an opportunity for the UK and European  gallery, library, archive and museum (GLAM) sector to meet with representatives from the Wikimedia community to “determine how to use the … Continue reading →

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Workshops: Maximising online presence

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

From  Strategic Content Alliance and JISC NetSkills: The Strategic Content Alliance and JISC NetSkills are holding a series of free, two-day workshops on ‘Maximising the effectiveness of your online presence’ in: Belfast, 14 September 2010- 15 September 2010: Glasgow, 7th … Continue reading →

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