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.
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The RunCoCo project has been diverted from this blog with our own community collections: Woruldhord, Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten – and with preparing for our forthcoming conference Beyond 2011: Crowdsourcing for public engagement. However I felt RunCoCo must briefly point … Continue reading
New Strategies for Digital Content Conference
On 18 March 2011, the RunCoCo team visited Goodenough College, London for the JISC New Strategies for Digital Content Conference to mark the end of the e-Content programme 2009-11. The RunCoCo presentation slides can be downloaded from the project website … Continue reading
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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Day of Digital Humanities
A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities 2011 Ever wondered what a digital humanist is or does? On Friday March 18th 2011 you have the chance to find out. Or are you a digital humanist yourself? Then you may … Continue reading
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London Citizen Cyberscience workshop
The London Citizen Cyberscience Workshop took place at the end of January. Some 20 participants gathered to listen to a series of presentations about cyberscience projects, and to discuss the kind of questions that lend themselves to a cyberscience approach. … Continue reading
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London Citizen Cyberscience Workshop
A workshop on citizen cyberscience will be held in London on January 25, 2011, hosted by University College London (UCL). The aim of this workshop is to promote collaboration on citizen cyberscience between the main London institutions and to share … Continue reading
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GLAM-WIKI: brief report from the conference
Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Wikimedia: Finding the common ground The GLAM-WIKI conference took place in London at the end of November 2010. Material from the event (slides, audio, pictures) is being made available via the event page http://glamwiki.org/ The … Continue reading
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Workshop: Maximising Online Resource Effectiveness
Over the last year, the JISC Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and Netskills have been running a workshop on ‘Maximising Online Resource Effectiveness’ in different venues across the country. Content from the day (slides and pictures) can now be found on … Continue reading
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Conference clash this week
This weeks sees two interesting conferences clashing in London, if ‘clashing’ is the term to use. The events will, partially, be taking place at the same time in different venues, but there is also a collaboration between them to allow … Continue reading
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