Find out about “the Oxford Community Collection Model” used for successful crowdsourcing since 2007. The RunCoCo service at the University of Oxford University shows how you can run a community collection online and engage with your community. Have you seen the success of Europeana 1914-1918, The Great War Archive, Woruldhord (Anglo-Saxon and Old English), Europeana 1989, Children of the Great War, and Merton College 750th Anniversary? They’re gathering personal stories (user-generated content). You can do this too - using “the Oxford Community Collection Model” taught by RunCoCo. RunCoCo has FREE online guides, resources and training videos to show you how. Better still contact the RunCoCo team to discuss how you can crowdsource from your community using online collections, social media and face-to face engagements at roadshows. The team is experienced in helping individual academics or local projects to run their own community collection, crowdsourcing for living time-capsules, to add to exhibitions, for research or teaching. Find out more about “the Oxford Community Collection Model”: http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk

Running a Community Collection Online

RunCoCo: how to run a community collection online

Find out about roadshows - face-to-face engagement – part of “the Oxford Community Collection Model” used for successful crowdsourcing, e.g. Europeana 1914-1918. RunCoCo shows how you can run a community collection online and engage with your community. RunCoCo has FREE online guides, resources and training videos to show you how to engage face-to-face with your community at roadshows, like local teams did for the successful Europeana 1914-1918. Contact the RunCoCo team to discuss how you can crowdsource from your community using online collections, social media and these roadshows to digitise and record stories (user-generated content).

What is a Roadshow?

Short and snappy guidelines to creating a good picture for online viewing.

How to digitise objects well

Short and snappy guidelines to setting up for digitisation of objects.

How to set up your camera for digitisation

Part 4 of the "How To" series explaining how to keep track of objects and their stories.

How to track items at a Roadshow (Digitisation)

Part 3 of the "How To" series explaining how to keep track of objects and their stories.

How to track items at a Roadshow (Digitisation desk to Digitisation)

Part 2 of the "How To" series explaining how to keep track of objects and their stories.

How to track items at a Roadshow (Interview to Digitisation desk)

Part 1 of the "How To" series explaining how to keep track of objects and their stories.

How to track items at a Roadshow (Interview stage)

RunCoCo offers advice, training, and support to anyone seeking to build or enhance online collections through crowdsourcing and community engagement. The Oxford Community Collection Model, bringing together online collection and face-to-face engagement, has been successfully used to created digital, user-generated collections since 2008. Working in collaboration with Europeana 1914-1918, RunCoCo is currently providing services tailored to digitisation of WW1 memorabilia.

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Running a Community Collection Online

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