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Dear MOA JISCMailers
Some very good news from the Mass Observation Archive:
We have made a successful bid to the JISC under their Community and Business Engagement Grant for a
six month project led by the University of Sussex's Centre for Community Engagement running from
April 2010. It is intended that a demonstrator resource (using Mass Observation as inspiration)
will be produced which can then be potentially rolled out to community organisations across the
country.
This is a very exciting collaboration between Mass Observation, Adam Matthews Digital, Sussex
University and a (local) commercial community website designer. One of the results of the project
will be that for the
first time an agreed small selection of the digitised MOA will be openly available on the web.
Further information about the project itself:
"The Mass Observation Communities Online (MOCO) project will create an
online resource which will inspire and assist people to record the
changing history of their communities. This demonstrator project will
pilot our proposed approach with at least 10 identified community
heritage organisations, with a view to rolling out the resource
throughout the national network of Community Archive and Heritage groups
(www.communityarchives.org.uk). The key elements of the project are:
* Making freely available online for the first time selected extracts
from the Mass Observation Archive (by permission of commercial project
partners Adam Matthews Digital)
* Providing descriptions and examples of the techniques used by Mass
Observation to record such everyday histories
* Enabling community history groups to submit material (text and photos)
inspired by these resources, using online data-sharing techniques so
that the material can both be incorporated in the Mass Observation
Archive and in their own local online collections
* Developing and piloting a short writing course based on these
materials, and disseminating the course materials to other HE
institutions and community organisations around the country".
Warm regards
Fiona
Fiona Courage
Special Collections Manager
University of Sussex Library
+44 (0)1273 877911
<www.sussex.ac.uk/library/speccoll>
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