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.
Beyond Collections Conference 2011
A free one-day conference held at OUCS, University of Oxford on 26th May 2011 Our ‘Beyond’ conference this year will celebrate the joys and challenges of community collections. It will be hosted by the RunCoco project and sponsored by JISC . The … Continue reading
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Send in the crowds
Through a community collection the general public or members of a particular group are invited to contribute to a project by uploading their own content or adding information to existing resources. For sustainable crowdsourcing : Aim for two-way engagement Be part … 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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RunCoCo workshop on sustainability
The fourth RunCoCo workshop took place in Leeds on November 3rd, 2010. A group of 30 people gathered to learn about, discuss, and share experiences of online community collection work and sustainability. Material from the day is being published on … Continue reading
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Sustainability for Digital Content
We are very pleased to welcome Sarah Fahmy (Strategic Content Alliance) and Alastair Dunning (JISC) to the RunCoCo workshop in Leeds on November 3rd 2010. Sarah and Alastair will be leading an interactive session on Sustainability for Digital Content. This … Continue reading
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Building digital preservation into community collecting
At the RunCoCo workshop in Leeds, 3rd Nov, we will have the pleasure of a presentation by Lisa Greenhalgh from OurStories, based at West Yorkshire Archive Service . The Our Stories project aims to deliver a self-sustaining support network, training … 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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Workshop speaker: Kate Lindsay
The RunCoCo project builds on the work done on the Great War Archive project. We are very pleased to be able to welcome the project manager for the Great War Archive project Kate Lindsay among the speakers at the RunCoCo … 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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