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.
RunCoCo presentation for the JISC New Strategies for Digital Content Conference
Here is the text for my presentation to the JISC New Strategies for Digital Content Conference (London, March 2011) to mark the end of the e-Content programme 2009-11. The slides can also be downloaded from the RunCoCo website as PDF. … Continue reading
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Europeana crowdsourcing memories in Germany
The German National Library (die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek – DNB) launches a new crowdsourcing project today, “Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten” (The First World War in everyday documents). Online, anyone can submit family memories and photos of letters, postcards and studio portraits … Continue reading
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The Great War Archive extends in to Germany
The RunCoCo team are really excited to finally announce… …that in 2011 the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (the German National Library) and the Europeana Foundation will collect family memories and images from the general public in Germany that relate to the First … Continue reading
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80% of people who use archives are family historians
There’s a drive in the US to make October “family history month“, and tweets from this week’s OCLC special meeting “Moving the Past into the Future: Special Collections in a Digital Age” declared… “80% of people who use archives are … Continue reading
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Crime report
Last week Melissa Highton (RunCoCo’s director) attended the academic advisory group of the Mapping Crime project. (RunCoCo blogged about the previous meeting in May 2010.) With this project the Bodleian Library is providing links between the crime material available through … Continue reading
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What’s your message? RunCoCo’s crowdsourcing lessons from The Great War Archive
It’s academic conference season. You know what you are going to say – but how do you coach someone else to deliver your message? This post looks at some of the conferences we’ve spoken at and what RunCoCo‘s message has … Continue reading
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Rare But Not Old
RunCoCo will be speaking at ‘Rare but not Old’: Curating Modern Special Collections, the annual conference of the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group, 8-9 September 2010 at Lancaster University. We will be speaking about Using the community (real … Continue reading
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Communities remember Scotland at War
Recently Museums Galleries Scotland launched the website Remembering Scotland at War, the result of a three-year collaboration with museums and galleries across Scotland funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Most interesting from the perspective of the RunCoCo project is the … Continue reading
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Woruldhord is Making History
Dr Stuart Lee appeared on BBC Radio 4′s Making History programme, to talk about Oxford University’s Project Woruldhord, a community collection which asks the public to submit items related to the study of the Anglo-Saxons or Old English. For more … Continue reading
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Update June-August 2010
It’s been a while since we wrote an update for the progress of the project, mainly because of a combination of being too busy and some sick/holiday leave. In June-August we have… Training workshops We ran a free ‘engaging with … Continue reading
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