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/
RunCoCo on Tour
Yesterday the RunCoCo team left the dreaming spires of Oxford in bright sunshine, and floral fireworks – magnolia and other blossoms. Today we have been training about 25 German librarians who are partnering the German National Library (die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek … Continue reading
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Beyond Collections Conference 2011
A free one-day conference held at OUCS, University of Oxford on 26th May 2011 Our ‘Beyond’ conference this year will celebrate the joys and challenges of community collections. It will be hosted by the RunCoco project and sponsored by JISC . The … Continue reading
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Europeana crowdsourcing memories in Germany
The German National Library (die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek – DNB) launches a new crowdsourcing project today, “Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten” (The First World War in everyday documents). Online, anyone can submit family memories and photos of letters, postcards and studio portraits … Continue reading
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RunCoCo workshop on sustainability
The fourth RunCoCo workshop took place in Leeds on November 3rd, 2010. A group of 30 people gathered to learn about, discuss, and share experiences of online community collection work and sustainability. Material from the day is being published on … 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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Building digital preservation into community collecting
At the RunCoCo workshop in Leeds, 3rd Nov, we will have the pleasure of a presentation by Lisa Greenhalgh from OurStories, based at West Yorkshire Archive Service . The Our Stories project aims to deliver a self-sustaining support network, training … Continue reading
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Workshop speaker: Kate Lindsay
The RunCoCo project builds on the work done on the Great War Archive project. We are very pleased to be able to welcome the project manager for the Great War Archive project Kate Lindsay among the speakers at the RunCoCo … Continue reading
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Workshop speaker: Beccy Shipman
We are very pleased to announce that the RunCoCo event on November 3, 2010 will feature a presentation by Beccy Shipman, project manager of the LIFE-SHARE project. The title of the talk is Library seeks partner, must have GSOH… Collaborative … Continue reading
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Workshop speaker: Leigh Garrett
We are very pleased to announce that Leigh Garrett, Director of the Visual Arts Data Service, will be speaking at the forthcoming RunCoCo workshop in Leeds (Nov 3). Leigh will be sharing with us findings from the Look here! project … Continue reading
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Workshop speaker: Chris Wild
We are very pleased to announce that Chris Wild, The Retronaut is one of the speakers at the forthcoming RunCoCo workshop in Leeds (Nov 3). According to Chris, a Retronaut is “someone who goes back in time using just perception”. … Continue reading
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