Europeana Migration – new community collection

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

‘Migration’ is a topical issue with many dimensions in the present and the past. Throughout 2018, the European Year of Cultural Heritage, Europeana will be running a new community collection initiative around the theme of ‘migration’. The Europeana Migration collection will … Continue reading →

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Lest We Forget

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

‘Lest We Forget’ (LWF) is a nationwide initiative, led by the University of Oxford, which aims to recognise and record those stories, objects and memories from World War One which survive – not in museum collections or history books – but in the hearts and homes of … Continue reading →

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Crowdfunding – part 3

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

The ‘Lest We Forget’ crowdfunding campaign ran from June 5th and received a large number of contributions, from £1 and more, nearly £20,000 in all. The campaign also drew a lot of attention to the project, and offered new opportunities. That … Continue reading →

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Lest We Forget

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Ylva Berglund Prytz

This summer, Oxford University are launching ‘Lest We Forget’, a new community-based initiative to preserve materials held by the public dating from the First World War. Building on from the success of our ‘Great War Archive’ in 2008, a mass-digitisation … Continue reading →

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Illustrations in support of Public Engagement with Research Awards

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Alun Edwards

The Oxford University team involved in Europeana 1914-1918 have entered the Vice Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Awards (projects), 2016. Click on each photograph to see illustrations of some of the impact of the outreach and engagement activities as part of the … Continue reading →

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Museums and the Web 2015 workshop references

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Alun Edwards

These are the references from my workshop “Crowdsourcing user-generated content: using the Oxford Community Collection Model to engage audiences and create collections” (at MW2015, the annual conference of Museums and the Web, April 8-11, 2015, Chicago). I will occasionally be … Continue reading →

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Ready for MW15 Workshop, Chicago

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Alun Edwards

Finally, RunCoCo is ready for the workshop “Crowdsourcing user-generated content: using the Oxford Community Collection Model to engage audiences and create collections” (at MW2015, the annual conference of Museums and the Web, April 8-11, 2015, Chicago). Alun Edwards, Academic IT, University … Continue reading →

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Letter to an Unknown Soldier: A Unique, Contemporary Form of Community Collection

Posted on June 10, 2014 by

If you had the chance to write to a soldier serving in World War One, what would you say, considering all your own experience of life and death post 1914 to hand?  As more and more events and exhibitions are being … Continue reading →

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