The details are a little sketchy but JISC announces today that the formerly stalled invitation for proposals for Co-development of Content is open again, closing date 15 March. This is the Strand II of the Grant 13/09: BCE, e-Content & Digitisation programmes: Developing community content for “building new digital collections, or transforming existing collections through genuine co-creation with specific external communities.” RunCoCo is a new project to support with training etc. anyone interested in bidding for this or already having submitted proposals for Strand I of that call.
RunCoCo project blog
This blog is written by the RunCoCo project team who encourage the formation of community collections with training activities. In community collection projects the cost of digitising photographs or films or interviews is spread out across the community (education and public sectors) and not borne entirely by the host institution. RunCoCo will demonstrate how successful collections can be put together by smaller individual units than the expensive digitisation projects that receive funding from traditional (and now severely reduced) sources.
