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A presentation to accompany the report RunCoCo: How to Run a Community Collection Online (2011) http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/resources/RunCoCo_Report.pdf
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ABC of CROWDSOURCING a COMMUNITY COLLECTION
Kate Lindsay, Manager for Engagement @ktdigital
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Crowdsourcing is when a problem is broadcast to a wide audience or community that could solve the problem collectively. Mundane tasks could be outsourced to a motivated and enthusiastic community of experts. The community can assess the answers and provide the quality assurance. - JISC
A CALL to ATTICS, BOTTOM DRAWERS and SUCH…
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≥ 1 SUBMISSIONS
≥ 1 ATTACHMENTS
Where are they from?
ATTATCHMENTS
SUBMISSIONS
WHAT NOW?
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/
DO YOU WANT to RUNCoCo?
Aim for TWO-WAYENGAGEMENT
Be PART of YOUR COMMUNITY
Challenge YOUR ASSUMPTIONS
• Primary source material in institution
• Professional Digitisation using benchmarks
• Catalogued by trained cataloguers
• Quality Assured twice, including by a key expert in the field
• Average £40.00 per image
• Primary source material held by individuals
• Digitisation performed by the public or project team
• Initially catalogued by the public
• Quality Assured and metadata expanded upon by the project team
• Average £3.50 per image (possibly significantly less)
Challenge YOUR ASSUMPTIONS
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Knowledge is no longer restricted to the boundaries of universities and higher education facilities. These institutions no longer have a monopoly on where good ideas come from, nor how information and knowledge is used. They cannot control how the knowledge they create is used and where it is accessed . – DEMOS, The Edgeless University
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DO YOU WANT to RUNCoCo?