{"id":1384,"date":"2011-03-28T15:04:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2011-03-28T15:04:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:04:20","slug":"send-in-the-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2011\/03\/28\/send-in-the-crowds\/","title":{"rendered":"Send in the crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Through\u00a0a 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.<\/p>\n

For sustainable crowdsourcing :
\nA<\/strong>im for two-way engagement
\nB<\/strong>e part of your community
\nC<\/strong>hallenge your assumptions<\/p>\n

RunCoCo<\/a><\/em> set out to offer advice, training, and open-source software to those interested in running a community\u00a0 OER collection online using similar approaches as The Great War Archive<\/a> and Woruldhord<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>The team \u00a0aimed to build a support network to exchange knowledge about community collections, provide a point of contact for advice about community collections, and publish outputs which can be used for free by anyone in the sector. At RunCoCo<\/em> events, projects have come together to exchange success-stories and to discuss the challenges of various community engagement models.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Alun\u00a0 and Ylva presented on community collections and the power of the crowd at the JISC conference 2010[i]<\/a>, at blended learning[ii]<\/a> conferences in the UK and at meetings or workshops across Europe.\u00a0Kate contributed to the debate \u2018Should the general public be involved in academic research?\u2019 in JISC Inform<\/em>[iii]<\/a>. <\/em>\u00a0The types of projects represented at the RunCoCo<\/em> events and the topics covered included: community collection; using Flickr<\/em> for crowdsourcing; manuscript transcription; \u2018citizen science<\/em>\u2019; community archives; community archaeology; mass observation; engaging communities like school children, the elderly or the homeless; digital storytelling; digitisation; policies, strategies and impact; good practice for Web design; content management systems; trust and authenticity; copyright and IPR; communications, marketing and publicity; project and \/ or community sustainability; digital preservation; social media and social networking e.g. Facebook<\/em>, Flickr<\/em> and Twitter<\/em>; and \u2018Big Society\u2019.\u00a0 I’ll host\u00a0a \u00a0final event in May 2011, \u201cBeyond Collections: Crowdsourcing for public engagement\u201d at OUCS [iv]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The workflows and systems developed for The Great War Archive<\/em> have been re-used in different contexts, and RunCoCo<\/em> has made these freely available for future projects to use, re-use and build upon. Community Collection software \u2018CoCoCo\u2019 <\/em>developed by Oxford University is available and the system has been adapted for use by others[v]<\/a>. Based on feedback from users, the system has been developed[vi]<\/a> and the latest version with support documentation are freely available to download from the RunCoCo<\/em> website \u00a0and will be released on GitHub<\/em>[vii]<\/a>.The RunCoCo<\/em> website will remain online to continue this dissemination.<\/p>\n

[i]<\/a> JISC conference 2010, community collections and the power of the crowd http:\/\/www.jisc.ac.uk\/events\/2010\/04\/jisc10\/programme\/communitycollections.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

[ii]<\/a> Fifth International Blended Learning Conference “Developing Blended Learning Communities” 16 – 17 June 2010 http:\/\/www.herts.ac.uk\/about-us\/learning-and-teaching\/learning-teaching-institute\/conferences\/blended-learning-conference-2010\/home.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n

[iii]<\/a> LINDSAY, Kate and KEEN, Andrew: Debate Should the general public be involved in academic research?<\/em> JISC Inform issue 27 Spring 2010. http:\/\/www.jisc.ac.uk\/publications\/jiscinform\/2010\/inform27.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

[iv]<\/a> \u201cBeyond Collections: Crowdsourcing for public engagement. A RunCoCo Conference\u201d at the University of Oxford http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ltg\/events\/beyond2011\/<\/a><\/p>\n

[v]<\/a> Welsh Voices of the Great War Online website http:\/\/www.welshvoices.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

[vi]<\/a> Use-cases were worked-up by the team, and the open source Redmine<\/em> project management Web application (http:\/\/www.redmine.org\/<\/a>) was used to create and comment on feature requests and bug reports.\u00a0[vii]<\/a> GitHub website https:\/\/github.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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