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/
Linguamania – crowdsourcing languages
How many languages are spoken in an Oxford museum on a dark Friday night in January? That may seem like an odd question to ask, but it makes more sense when put into the context of the Ashmolean Museum … Continue reading
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Tagged Crowdsourcing, event, languages, multicultural, multilingual
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Illustrations in support of Public Engagement with Research Awards
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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Tagged Community Collection, Crowdsourcing, Europeana 1914-1918, RunCoCo, User-generated Content, WW1
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Museums and the Web 2015 workshop references
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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Tagged Community Collection, conferences, Crowdsourcing, Europeana 1914-1918, MW15, RunCoCo, User-generated Content, WW1
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Have you got a ‘citizen humanities’ crowdsourcing idea for the Zooniverse?
The Constructing Scientific Communities project, part of the AHRC’s Science in Culture theme, is inviting proposals for citizen science or ‘citizen humanities’ projects to be developed as part of the Zooniverse.org platform. Proposals are welcome from researchers whose work would benefit from … Continue reading
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Tagged Crowdsourcing, User-generated Content
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Letter to an Unknown Soldier: A Unique, Contemporary Form of Community Collection
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