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This immediately made me think of Rufus Pollack and the OKFN, so I forwarded to him and he replied: Can you suggest people ping the Open Humanities mailing list - see: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-humanities http://humanities.okfn.org/get-involved/ Rufus On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Amber THOMAS <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Forwarded from Nicola Osborne at Edina > > > Hi there, > > Myself and my colleagues at EDINA are considering running a hackday > (likely to be December this year) for a project we've been working on and > which I hope may be of interest. The project is called Will's World and it > is a JISC-funded project to build a registry of metadata about Shakespeare > resources across the UK. > > We have been inspired by other excellent hack events we've been to and are > wanting to run our own online hack event. We think that's a fairly unusual > way to do it and we really want some feedback on the idea and the format > from the people we want to be involved - which might hopefully include some > of you. > > The hackday would be open to all (as will the registry) and I am very much > hoping you might able to involved either in giving us some feedback on the > idea, in the event itself or both! It would be fantastic if we could have > an OER hack or two as the Shakespeare material is, of course, very rich for > combining with existing resources or creating whole new ways to engage with > and learn from the texts. > > We've put up a blogpost about our idea here: > http://willsworld.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2012/10/18/online-hack-event/ > > And the survey we are running to capture feedback is here: > https://www.survey.ed.ac.uk/willsworldhack/ > > Please do feel free to forward/share with others - we want to both get > word out about the possible event and capture as much feedback as possible > before we start planning so we can make sure it actually works well. > > Huge thanks in advance! > > - Nicola. > > -- > Nicola Osborne > Social Media Officer > > EDINA website: > http://www.edina.ac.uk/ > > t: 0131 651 3873 > e: [log in to unmask] > > a: EDINA, The University of Edinburgh, Causewayside House, 158-162 > Causewayside, Edinburgh EH9 1PR > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, > with registration number SC005336. > > ######################################################################## > > -- Katherine Fletcher, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Twitter: kefletcher <http://www.twitter.com/kefletcher> Blog: kefletcher.blogspot.com <[log in to unmask]>