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.
Speaking at the Flemish Parliament
Alun Edwards, manager of RunCoCo, is speaking at the European Congress on E Inclusion 2010 ‘Delivering Digital Europe in Public Libraries’, 20-21 September 2010. ECEI10 is an invitation-only meeting for about 250 delegates to be held in the Flemish Parliament, … Continue reading
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Transcribe Bentham
Transcribe Bentham is inviting participants to what they call “the first major crowdsourcing transcription project”. The Transcribe Bentham Project, based at University College London, has produced digital images of a large selection of original and unstudied manuscript papers written by … 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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How do you encourage the public to take part in your community collection project? – Welsh Voices of The Great War Online
Dr Gethin Matthews is wrestling with this problem, as he runs the JISC-funded project, Welsh Voices of The Great War Online. At the RunCoCo workshop on 27 July Gethin explained how he is trying to get people to come to … Continue reading
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Open Plaques Open Day
The Open Plaques project is holding an open day workshop in London on September 25th, 2010. The free event will include presentations about the project and a practical session where the participants look at how the project can be developed … Continue reading
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Building participatory archives
In a recent post on her blog ArchivesNext, Kate Theimer discusses the work she is preparing on ‘participatory archives’. What I’m working on now is exploring ideas about what it means to build “participatory archives.” The concept draws upon the … Continue reading
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Cross-searching workshop in Bristol
The Visualising China Project is hosting a one-day workshop at the ILRT in Bristol on Tuesday 21st September, with presentations and discussion on the topic of cross-searching distributed, interrelated, online resources. The workshop will tackle topics such as harvesting protocols … Continue reading
Invent it! at the British Library
The British Library is calling on us to come up with problems. Not just any problems but specifically those that we would like to see the next generation of inventors solve. For their Invent it! campaign the British Library are … Continue reading
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Strandlines Digital Communities
Can you run a community collection where there is little sense of community? The Strandlines Digital Communities is a new project that is determined to do just that. The focus of the project is the Strand, one of the most … Continue reading
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