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/
Update Feb-Mar 2010
In February we have…
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Job opportunity
RunCoCo is recruiting a Project Officer (part-time, fixed-term). Details and an application form are available from Oxford University Computing Services, where the job will be based. Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 26th March 2010, and interviews … 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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Woruldhord first moot
This month RunCoCo met with Dr Stuart Lee, the lead for the exemplar – Project Woruldhord – who will be trialling our training material, our training workshops and user-testing our processes and most importantly the CoCoCo software. It’s an interesting … Continue reading
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Update Jan-Feb 2010
The RunCoCo project began this month. We’re going to train other institutions in the experiences of The Great War Archive, part of the First World War Poetry Digital Archive, and show them how they can replicate the process for community … Continue reading
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From The Great War Archive to RunCoCo
RunCoCo is a new project based at the University of Oxford which will share online best practice and experience of running in 2008 a successful community contributed collection of digital objects, The Great War Archive, and offer free training and … Continue reading
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About the RunCoCo blog
This is the first post to the official blog of RunCoCo – a project funded by JISC which helps you run your own community collection project. Contact RunCoCo. Target audience: The blog will be most relevant to staff in UK … Continue reading
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