{"id":1958,"date":"2015-04-26T13:55:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T12:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2015-04-27T09:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T08:41:54","slug":"community-sourcing-mw2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2015\/04\/26\/community-sourcing-mw2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Community sourcing at the Museums and the Web 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1960\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/2015-04-08-16.06.53.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1960\" class=\" wp-image-1960  \" alt=\"Workshop participants\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/2015-04-08-16.06.53-300x225.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/2015-04-08-16.06.53-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/2015-04-08-16.06.53-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workshop in full-swing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a title=\"Museums and the Web 2015 workshop references\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2015\/04\/06\/mw15\/\">workshop<\/a> I ran and the professional forum I helped lead at MW2015 earlier this month in Chicago went down very well with the enthusiastic participants.<\/p>\n<p>What follows are photos (in a very low resolution) and some reflections on work done and some work to do.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Big Data<\/h2>\n<p>The conference for me began with <a title=\"MW15 big data and architecture\" href=\"http:\/\/mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com\/session\/tours-1-chicago-architecture-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Chicago: City of Big Data&#8221;<\/a> based around the work of <a title=\"Chicago Architecture Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/bigdata.architecture.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Chicago Architecture Foundation<\/a>. This fired up questions of could the University of Oxford mine big data from sources like social media and the IoT (Internet of Things) for estate management and network management:<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1958 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/2015-04-07-08.50.10.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/2015-04-07-08.50.10-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Screenshot showing reports based on deep mining of social media etc.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1962\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1962'>\n\t\t\t\tScreenshot of Chicago: City of Big Datsa\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/a1429878416182.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/a1429878416182-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Workshop participants shelter in a dept store\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1963\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1963'>\n\t\t\t\tExploring Chicago with iPads, looking at practical uses of big data and social media &#8211; and ducking into any building possible to escape the biting winds &#8211; even the sports bra dept.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429878432367.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429878432367-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Model of Chicago showing uses of energy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1964\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1964'>\n\t\t\t\tA 3-d visualisation with lighting of big data, e.g. total electricity consumption (red = heavy consumption), first workshop of the MW2015 conference in Chicago\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429878417376.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429878417376-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Chicago in the mist\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1966\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1966'>\n\t\t\t\tThe voluntary guide &#8211; part of the big data workshop &#8211; on board the architecture river cruise boat, Chicago\u2019s &#8216;First Lady&#8217;, kept saying &#8220;if you could see above your heads you would see the [INSERT NAME OF] tower!&#8221; Hypothermia-inducing but fascinating.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>Workshop about the Oxford Community Collection Model:<\/h2>\n<p>The\u00a0<a title=\"Museums and the Web 2015 workshop references\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2015\/04\/06\/mw15\/\">workshop<\/a>\u00a0I ran about crowdsourcing user-generated content (using <strong><a title=\"The Oxford Community Collection Model\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2013\/06\/24\/the-oxford-community-collection-model\/\">the Oxford Community Collection Model<\/a><\/strong> to engage audiences and create collections) was based on the work I have done for years in shadowing Ylva, our best RunCoCo trainer, when we coach local teams to engage with their communities. The trick was to coalesce a 1-2 day coaching programme unique to every local nuance into less than 3 hours with a conference audience. With a lot of preparation I think I managed this, and the delegates really participated actively.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-or-so delegates were representative of art galleries and museums from North America, Europe, and Australia, Canadian and American and British universities, as well as branding and software developers and artists from the US and the NL. The projects I learned more about included:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>&#8220;Every Texan has a story. Share yours now!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"The story of Texas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestoryoftexas.com\/discover\/texas-story-project\" target=\"_blank\">The Story of Texas project<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Yellow star houses\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowstarhouses.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yellow Star Houses project<\/a><\/strong>, from the Open Society Archives. Survivors of the Holocaust and former residents can tell their\u00a0stories\u00a0using an interactive map of Budapest<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Ozarks Civil War\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ozarkscivilwar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Civil War in the Ozarks<\/strong><\/a>, &#8220;Community and Conflict: The Impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks, a collaborative digitization effort to document the war in the Trans-Mississippi theater&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Missouri Over There \" href=\"http:\/\/missourioverthere.blogspot.co.uk\/p\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Missouri Over There<\/strong><\/a> exploring the state&#8217;s involvement in World War I, the project&#8217;s approach involving historians reminded me of <a title=\"Welsh Voices\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/share\/research\/projectreports\/welshvoices\/\" target=\"_blank\">Welsh Voice of the Great War<\/a>\u00a0who worked very closely with RunCoCo<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uganda Heritage Sites and Stories<\/strong>\u00a0from the York University Toronto with the Uganda\u00a0National Museum in Kampala (<a title=\"Uganda Heritage Sites + Stories Trailer\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BrnfvEBq9_g\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube trailer<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And after plugging the wonderful Nina Simon&#8217;s <a title=\"Participatory Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.participatorymuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Participatory Museum<\/a> I even learned of a monograph which I should&#8217;ve read years ago:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JENKINS, Henry et al. <a title=\"MIT Press\" href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/confronting-challenges-participatory-culture\" target=\"_blank\">Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: media education for the 21st century<\/a>. Cambridge, M.A. 2009 [freely available as a downloadable <a title=\"PDF: MIT Press\" href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/titles\/free_download\/9780262513623_Confronting_the_Challenges.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The slides (very low resolution) and all the links from the workshop <a title=\"Museums and the Web 2015 workshop references\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2015\/04\/06\/mw15\/\" target=\"_blank\">are online on this blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Conference reflections:<\/h2>\n<p>The rest of the Museums and the Web conference passed swiftly by with art installations, receptions, and so many opportunities to network and build business relationships. In particular I was fortunate to meet drivers behind two very different proposals for the upcoming Horizon 2020 funding around European identity &#8211; both firmly technology bound but both seeing a real opportunity for engagement with communities, face-to-face or online &#8211; the Oxford Community Collection Model could be a key here.<\/p>\n<p>Other opportunities were explored for work on prospective AHRC or ESRC\u00a0bids, as well as just telling people about <a title=\"RunCoCo\" href=\"http:\/\/runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">the freely-available resources from RunCoCo<\/a>. I also met with a number of professionals who wanted to use crowdsourcing in their research or for their product &#8211; but without a clear idea of the benefit for the participant or even who could be interested in helping them. Hopefully my thoughts clarified their approaches to the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>I attended a number of useful sessions (obviously most around crowdsourcing and social media, but some project management, product development, and photography as well). But two crowdsourcing panels in particular rang a chord:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;the foamers&#8221; (those niche amateurs)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com\/proposal\/from-crowdsourcing-to-knowledge-communities-creating-meaningful-scholarship-through-digital-collaboration\/\">From Crowdsourcing to Knowledge Communities:\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Jon Voss of\u00a0<strong>HistoryPin<\/strong> talked eloquently about their collaboration with communities (&#8220;Creating Meaningful Scholarship Through Digital Collaboration&#8221;), e.g. in history hackathons that bridge the generational gap, and which provide the curator with enriched metadata and thinking about what&#8217;s in it for the participant especially &#8220;the foamers&#8221; (those niche amateurs).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This work requires a community officer to engage and encourage participation, and to help plan for and to collaborate with the community, i.e. not just mine the community<\/li>\n<li>HistoryPin are coming to the conclusion that 2 years is the bare minimum for measuring the success of such crowdsourcing initiatives<\/li>\n<li>Crowdsourcing can enable the curator to prioritise digitisation queues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of this resonates with <a title=\"Send in the crowds\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2011\/03\/28\/send-in-the-crowds\/\">the findings of RunCoCo<\/a>. Jon also showed off the new experimental\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Mapping Emotions in Victorian London\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.historypin.org\/2015\/04\/14\/mapping-emotions-in-victorian-london\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mapping emotions in Victorian London<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on HistoryPin, where the mechanical-Turkers appraisal of &#8220;happy&#8221; or &#8220;sad&#8221; is offered so much more nuance by the crowd of knowledgeable communities. Finally I was fascinated to hear about HistoryPin&#8217;s commitment to data sharing (or round tripping) e.g. to export metadata successfully into Europeana.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com\/proposal\/the-school-as-the-crowd-adventures-in-crowdsourcing-with-schools\/\">The school as the crowd:<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Ally Davies and Rhiannon Looseley, Museum of London, reflected very openly on the challenges involving teachers, schools and school students in crowdsourcing (&#8220;adventures in crowdsourcing with schools&#8221;)for <strong><a title=\"Tag London\" href=\"http:\/\/crowd.museumoflondon.org.uk\/taglondon\/login.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tag London<\/a><\/strong>, e.g.:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feedback from teachers<\/strong> included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>students need an instant recognition like &#8220;correct &#8211; your tag is right&#8221;. This is not possible, the whole point of projects like Tag London is data (tags) is not available<\/li>\n<li>students won&#8217;t engage in this activity because it is not directly linked to exam results<\/li>\n<li>that the teacher wants a pre-filtered set of data for the students to tag, to fit with their term work on e.g. the Romans. Again this is impossible because the data is not ready for this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>&#8220;the students have become digital conscripts instead of volunteers!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Most importantly, Ally and Rhiannon referred to the fuzzy warm feeling <strong><a title=\"Mia Ridge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.miaridge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mia Ridge<\/a><\/strong> talks about that the participant feels when choosing to do something worthwhile like helping the museums with their collections &#8211; and that this is removed when the school is involved &#8211; essentially the students have become digital conscripts instead of volunteers!<\/p>\n<p>Click on an image for a closer look at pictures from the conference:<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-1958 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429878418577.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429878418577-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Gold and green carpet design\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-1967\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-1967'>\n\t\t\t\tOne trick was to cope with the lack of fresh air and daylight and the opulent decor of the Palmer House venue, &#8220;look around the carpet, don&#8217;t look into the carpet, look around the carpet!&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/11136674_10152955145010753_8334400389111199651_n.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/11136674_10152955145010753_8334400389111199651_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Alun Edwards\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-1974\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-1974'>\n\t\t\t\tAlun Edwards explaining that RunCoCo&#8217;s story began with poetry&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429878419880.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429878419880-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Lounge bar\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-1973\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-1973'>\n\t\t\t\tThe decor of the lounge of the Palmer hotel!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429878420961.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429878420961-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Conference audience\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-1972\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-1972'>\n\t\t\t\tThe audience gathers for our MW15 professional forum which we called &#8220;Wake up, America!&#8221; And there&#8217;s that carpet again!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com\/proposal\/wake-up-america-can-us-museums-use-the-web-to-crowdsource-user-generated-content-for-the-2017-18-anniversaries-using-the-new-approaches-piloted-by-the-university-of-oxford-and-made-reality-by-eur\/\">Wake up America!<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>This was the professional forum I set up about <strong><a title=\"Europeana 1914-1918\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2015\/03\/26\/europeana-1914-1918\/\" target=\"_blank\">Europeana 1914-1918<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a title=\"RunCoCo\" href=\"http:\/\/runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">RunCoCo<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0with Bob Beatty of <a title=\"AASLH\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aaslh.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">the\u00a0American Association for State and Local History<\/a>, and curators of museums about the First World War in the USA. I&#8217;ve blogged more [WATCH THIS SPACE!] about &#8220;Wake up, America!\u00a0Can US museums use the Web to crowdsource user-generated content for the 2017-18 anniversaries using the new approaches piloted by the University of Oxford and made reality by Europeana?&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Some of a busman&#8217;s holiday looking for WW1 history in Mid-West USA:<\/h2>\n<p>Photo gallery from\u00a0Scoville Park in Oak Park Illinois, the <a title=\"First Division Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstdivisionmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">First Division Museum at Cantigny<\/a>, the <a title=\"National WW1 Museum\" href=\"https:\/\/theworldwar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial<\/a> at Kansas City.\u00a0Click on an image for a closer look at pictures from the tour:<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-1958 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910692891.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910692891-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-1993\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-1993'>\n\t\t\t\tScoville Park in Oak Park Illinois\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910694516.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910694516-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-1994\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-1994'>\n\t\t\t\tScoville Park in Oak Park Illinois\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/14299106913562.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/14299106913562-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-1992\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-1992'>\n\t\t\t\tE.M. Hemingway on the memorial, Scoville Park in Oak Park Illinois\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910639559.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910639559-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-1982\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-1982'>\n\t\t\t\tBehind the scenes at the First Division Museum\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910683825.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910683825-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-1990\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-1990'>\n\t\t\t\tBehind the scenes at the First Division Museum\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910690018.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910690018-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-1991\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-1991'>\n\t\t\t\tBig Red 1, behind the scenes at the First Division Museum\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910654152.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910654152-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-1984\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-1984'>\n\t\t\t\tWW1-themed bedroom in my Kansas City hotel\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910661917.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910661917-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-1987\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-1987'>\n\t\t\t\tThe base of the tower National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, Kansas City and the Edward Jones Research Centre\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910652293.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910652293-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-1983\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-1983'>\n\t\t\t\tDutch artist Louis Raemaekers&#8217; &#8220;Well, Have You Nearly Done?&#8221;, at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, Kansas City\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910658185.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910658185-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-1986\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-1986'>\n\t\t\t\tNational World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, Kansas City\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910668068.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910668068-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-1988\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-1988'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Panth\u00e9on de la Guerre, in the Memory Hall, at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, Kansas City\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/lowres1429910659798.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/lowres1429910659798-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-1998\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-1998'>\n\t\t\t\tThe 90,000 silk poppies art installation, viewed from inside the Edward Jones Research Centre, beneath the Paul Sunderland Glass Bridge at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, Kansas City. From this level you can really see the no man&#8217;s land is not flat and featureless\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910669936.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910669936-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-1989\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-1989'>\n\t\t\t\tA very busy museum, at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, Kansas City\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910656019.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/1429910656019-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-1985\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-1985'>\n\t\t\t\tNational World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, Kansas City\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>Showing Europeana 1914-1918 to the Slovenian ambassador to the US<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_2005\" style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3470790\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2005\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2005\" alt=\"Slovenian-Austrian film The Woods Are Still Green\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/Woods.jpg\" width=\"409\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/Woods.jpg 409w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/files\/2015\/04\/Woods-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from The Woods Are Still Green<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lora Vogt of the National World War I Museum invited me down to Kansas City, what an opportunity! As well as meeting some of the decision-makers at the Museum I managed a few minutes rush around the galleries, pausing to note some of the excellent (if un-cited) uses of digital resources of our <a title=\"First World War Poetry Digital Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ww1lit\/\" target=\"_blank\">First World War Poetry Digital Archive<\/a>. Also, I attended the reception and screening of Slovenian-Austrian film &#8220;Die W\u00e4lder sind noch gr\u00fcn&#8221; (&#8220;The Woods Are Still Green&#8221;). This evening was in honour of Bozo Cerar, Slovenia Ambassador to the US, and Barbara Koval Nelson, Honorary Consul for Slovenia in the Midwest. Fortunately, when I met Dr Cerar and talked about our work in over 20 countries I mentioned <strong>Europeana 1914-1918<\/strong>&#8216;s <a title=\"Europeana-1914-1918 roadshows inspire Slovenian librarians\" href=\"http:\/\/pro.europeana.eu\/blogpost\/europeana-1914-1918-roadshows-inspire-slovenian-librarians\" target=\"_blank\">days in Nova Gorica<\/a>\u00a0as he has family connections there. And of course I explained about\u00a0<a title=\"Kadet Viktor Mitkiewicz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.europeana1914-1918.eu\/en\/contributions\/3664\" target=\"_blank\">one of the most extraordinary contributions<\/a> made there of a family story from the First World War.<\/p>\n<h2>Thank you:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bob Beatty,\u00a0American Association for State and Local History<\/li>\n<li>Bill Brewster,\u00a0the First Division Museum at Cantigny<\/li>\n<li>Matt Naylor,\u00a0the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial<\/li>\n<li>Ylva Berglund Prytz and all the Education Enhancement Team of Academic IT Services, University of Oxford<\/li>\n<li>Stacie Petersen,\u00a0the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial<\/li>\n<li>Lora Vogt, the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Words and pictures by Alun Edwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The workshop I ran and the professional forum I helped lead at MW2015 earlier this month in Chicago went down very well with the enthusiastic participants. What follows are photos (in a very low resolution) and some reflections on work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2015\/04\/26\/community-sourcing-mw2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-external","category-project-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}