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Flickr Love

Last week I climbed out of the depths of my maternity leave to present at the fourth RunCoCo workshop  in Leeds. Here, a group of 30 people gathered to learn about, discuss, and share experiences of online community collection work … Continue reading

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Gone for a while….

I’ll be taking a break for a while to do another, very different job. In the meantime posts will be rather sporadic.

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Should the general public be involved in academic research?

My side of the debate has just been published in issue 27 of JISC Inform. Taking the stand against me is Andrew Keen, author of ‘The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube and the rest of today’s user-generated … Continue reading

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Beyond Borders Success

This year’s ‘Beyond’ conference, entitled Beyond Borders, was a great success. The theme of the event was to celebrate the work done at Oxford by the LTG’s Open Spires project which has involved colleagues from across the collegiate institution and … Continue reading

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Community collections and the power of the crowd

I recently presented at the JISC 2010 Conference on the experiences of the Great War Archive and crowd sourcing. The opportunity was also used to introduce the recently launched RunCoCo project to the audience. In my session I was joined … Continue reading

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Finding Ada at Station X

It is March 24th, Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science (what with last week’s Day in the Life of Digital Humanities, I’m loving these community crowd-sourced blogs events!). … Continue reading

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Beyond Borders

On the 20th April I shall be attending the Beyond Borders conference at Oxford. This is a yearly event hosted by the LTG. This year the conference will feature speakers from the UK and beyond, and serve to showcase and … Continue reading

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Great War Archive featured by the University of Oxford 2008/9 Annual Review

The work of the First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Great War Archive has been showcased by the University of Oxford in its 2008/9 Annual Review. The Review can be accessed online at http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/introducing_oxford/annual_review/index.html.

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Project Launch: RunCoCo

I am the director of an exciting new project called RunCoCo. The project builds on our experience of running The Great War Archive, a successful community contributed collection of digital objects. RunCoCo will run a series of dissemination activities to … Continue reading

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This is Me

At a recent workshop run by research3.org Shirley Williams quoted what may be the golden nugget underlying online identity: “Digital reputation is like a pension. You wish you had thought about it earlier” http://thisisme.reading.ac.uk/ Funded by Eduserve, Shirley Williams is … Continue reading

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