Send in the crowds

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Melissa Highton

Through a community collection the general public or members of a particular group are invited to contribute to a project by uploading their own content or adding information to existing resources. For sustainable crowdsourcing : Aim for two-way engagement Be part … Continue reading →

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Europeana crowdsourcing memories in Germany

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Alun Edwards

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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The Great War Archive extends in to Germany

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Alun Edwards

The RunCoCo team are really excited to finally announce… …that in 2011 the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (the German National Library) and the Europeana Foundation will collect family memories and images from the general public in Germany that relate to the First … Continue reading →

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RunCoCo workshop on sustainability

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

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

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

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

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

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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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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Workshop speaker: Kate Lindsay

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

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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Crime report

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Alun Edwards

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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Workshop speaker: Beccy Shipman

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

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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