{"id":235,"date":"2010-04-09T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T16:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/?p=235"},"modified":"2010-04-09T17:25:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T16:25:57","slug":"evaluate-the-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2010\/04\/09\/evaluate-the-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"How to evaluate the worth of a community archive initiative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">RunCoCo has just had an interesting meeting with a Phd student from UCL (<em>&#8216;We think, not I think&#8217;: Harnessing collaborative creativity to archival  practice; implications of user participation for archival theory and  practice<\/em> [<a title=\"PDF: AHRC-funded PhD studentship (UCL and TNA)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/infostudies\/research\/icarus\/cda-2009\/CDA-Oct%202009-furtherdetails-final-headed.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]). Links to draw between ideas we&#8217;ve both been considering about <strong>how to measure the success of a community archive initiative<\/strong> &#8211; the worth or the value to the organisation that led it, to the community, and &#8211; primarily from an academic point of view &#8211; how do you know you can trust the information contributed by &#8216;amateurs&#8217;? Lots to think about as we consider a toolkit for evaluating and improving community collections and crowdsourcing initiatives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In passing I mention <a title=\"From The Great War Archive to RunCoCo\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2010\/01\/18\/gwa-to-runcoco\/\">again<\/a> that the costing and other strategies and processes behind <em>The Great War  Archive<\/em> are explained in detail in an article in EDUCAUSE Quarterly <a title=\"If You Build It They Will Scan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly\/EQVolume322009\/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum\/174539\"><em><strong>If  You Build It, They Will Scan: Oxford University&#8217;s Exploration of  Community Collections<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, written by the project&#8217;s managers Dr  Stuart Lee and Kate Lindsay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>All comments welcome, as we ponder these issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RunCoCo has just had an interesting meeting with a Phd student from UCL (&#8216;We think, not I think&#8217;: Harnessing collaborative creativity to archival practice; implications of user participation for archival theory and practice [PDF]). Links to draw between ideas we&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2010\/04\/09\/evaluate-the-worth\/\">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":[316,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digitisation-user-generated-content","category-project-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}