Forwarded on behalf of RunCoCo:
Subject: Event for community collections, Aberystwyth 27 July 2010
Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Registration is now open for the free RunCoCo/Culturenet Cymru workshop:
How to Run a Community Collection Online, which will take place on Tues
27 July 2010 at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
- Event details:
http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/events/27July/index.html
- Registration: www.surveymonkey.com/s/runcoco2010july
- Os hoffech gofrestru drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, anfonwch e-bost at
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- Organisers: RunCoCo, University of Oxford
http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ and Culturenet Cymru, NLW
www.culturenetcymru.com/selectLanguage.php
Community collections help to harness the collective resources of a
wider community and spread the costs of creating and contributing to a
collection across the education and public sectors. These include The
Great War Archive www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa and Community Archives
Wales www.ourwales.org.uk/. A community can also be harnessed to enrich
an existing collection with tags or comments (like Galaxy Zoo,
www.galaxyzoo.org). The organisers would like to invite anyone from the
education/public sector who is interested in such projects to take part
in this free RunCoCo workshop. As a taster, presentations from previous
workshops held by RunCoCo are available online
http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/events/index.html
The RunCoCo workshop has a number of purposes:
- This is a chance for managers and others from community collection
projects to share best practice and exchange knowledge
- This will be an opportunity for projects with some shared interests to
meet face-to-face. The JISC-funded project, RunCoCo, has also launched
an online 'community of interest' for those involved in community
collection or working to harness a community to enrich an existing
collection with tags or comments (http://groups.google.com/group/runcoco
- follow the link on the right of that Web page to Join This Group)
- Be an opportunity to hear from a number of projects such as Galaxy Zoo
and Community Archives Wales, as well as Culturenet Cymru and new
initiatives like Citizen Science and The People's Collection
- RunCoCo will disseminate the processes, CoCoCo open-source software
and results of the Great War Archive, a pilot community collection.
Places are limited, and similar events in Oxford have been
over-subscribed. Please register at
www.surveymonkey.com/s/runcoco2010july no later than 1200pm on 12 July
2010.
Os hoffech gofrestru drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, anfonwch e-bost at
[log in to unmask] We will confirm your place as soon as
possible.
Best wishes, Alun
Alun Edwards
Manager of RunCoCo | Learning Technologies Group | Oxford University
Computing Services | 13 Banbury Road | Oxford OX26NN
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