{"id":304,"date":"2010-05-12T18:47:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/?p=304"},"modified":"2010-05-13T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T16:25:38","slug":"end-of-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2010\/05\/12\/end-of-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of civilization?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating report on <a title=\"RunCoCo blog about Oxford community collections meeting\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2010\/05\/07\/oxford-community-collections-meeting\/\">RunCoCo&#8217;s Oxford meeting<\/a> on 5 May, has been written by Chris Batt OBE, one of the speakers: <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisbatt.wordpress.com\/\">ChB:PhD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>How do you feel about crowdsourcing, co-creation and community engagement? Does the thought of involving outside folks in collection building and knowledge creation sound to you like the end of civilization as we know it or a liberating opportunity to build relationships that give new meaning to your service mission? <\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Chris Batt opens with this challenge<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chris spoke at the RunCoCo meeting on the subjects of his 2009 report <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jisc.ac.uk\/publications\/documents\/digicurationfinalreport.aspx\">Digitisation, Curation and Two-Way Engagement<\/a><\/strong>, and his blog post reflects on this but also the discussions and feelings expressed on the day by the delegates, most of whom were from the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Last week&#8217;s RunCoCo event was one of a number of conferences recently attended where museum, library and archive professionals have reported on engagement projects and not a few, while, relishing the chance to work with communities, reflected on what might be the longer term implications for their institutions and their own professional roles. That was the undercurrent I sensed at RunCoCo. Sustaining engagement long-term will require shifts in how things are done, empowering citizens through a sense of ownership&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Chris Batt<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have our work cut out, time to roll up RunCoCo&#8217;s sleeves!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating report on RunCoCo&#8217;s Oxford meeting on 5 May, has been written by Chris Batt OBE, one of the speakers: ChB:PhD. How do you feel about crowdsourcing, co-creation and community engagement? Does the thought of involving outside folks in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2010\/05\/12\/end-of-civilization\/\">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":[209,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-project-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}