{"id":363,"date":"2010-05-15T15:16:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T14:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/?p=363"},"modified":"2010-05-20T15:54:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T14:54:17","slug":"mapping-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2010\/05\/15\/mapping-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week RunCoCo took part in a project board meeting for Mapping Crime<\/strong>. We were offering some expertise in user-generated content but particularly in user-engagement, to the project manager David Tomkins. This project will see the Bodleian Library map between the crime material available through the John Johnson Collection: An Archive of printed Ephemera<\/a> and other online resources containing related material or source information.<\/p>\n

\"Mapping<\/a>

Mapping crime beyond the John Johnson Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

Two comments during the meeting crystalized my understanding of the project and its outcomes. Firstly, it is a project about the publishing-history of crime<\/strong>, and secondly it is a digital version of the material that feeds into the excellent Lucy Moore book Con Men and Cutpurses: Scenes from the Hogarthian Underworld<\/em> – think Jack Shepherd, Jonathan Wild, Bill Sykes, Fagin, etc.<\/p>\n

Anyway during the meeting RunCoCo offered some suggestions for ways in which the public could more constructively engage with the resource<\/strong>. Although access to this resource is restricted to members of institutions that subscribe to the ProQuest<\/strong> product, there are ways to allow a wider access. The project blog, Curators’ Choice<\/a><\/strong>, provides fascinating insights into the history and context of items from Johnson’s collection, and maybe this could be made more open to user-comment and user-contribution. What if a small sample of images were released into a third-party service like Wikimedia Commons or Flickr Commons for user-comment, tagging etc.? A workshop is planned for the autumn<\/strong> 2010. This could be a ‘sweat shop’ (or is ‘hot-house’ a better term?) for further blog posts, wiki pages, timelines, mind-maps, podcasts, curated paths through the Mapping Crime content – similar to the work done by the community of teachers and lecturers who support the First World War Poetry Digital Archive<\/a>. Contact David Tomkins<\/a> to register an interest in taking part in this workshop.<\/p>\n

Some further research for RunCoCo is to find out about successful user-content, e.g. Atmospeer<\/strong><\/a> and EEBO interactions<\/strong><\/a>, for other ProQuest products.<\/p>\n

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\"And

Gratuitous picture of the Clarendon Building (the meeting location) and the Sheldonian Theatre (left), Oxford<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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