Run a Community Collection Online
Community Collection....where the general public or members of a particular community are invited to contribute to a project by uploading their own content or adding information to existing resources.
Do you want to RunCoCo?
The RunCoCo Project: how to Run a Community Collection online (2010-2011) provided a series of training events for organisations interested in harnessing the power of the Internet to run their own Community Collection initiative. Although the project has now ended this web site continues to make available information, guidance, software and useful links for others wishing to RunCoCo.
RunCoCo was based at the University of Oxford and was funded under the JISC Digitisation and e-Content programme - Institutional Skills and Strategies (Strand A). RunCoCo builds on the success of The Great War Archive, part of the First World War Poetry Digital Archive.
Resources
RunCoCo has developed free guidelines and work-flows to help you set up, run, and sustain a community collection. You can also download RunCoCo's open-source software, join a support network and access material from our training events.
Case studies
![photograph of Bombardier William Gaunt [seated] from the Great War Archive](images/illustrations/gwa.jpg)
Examples of how to run a community collection online are offered in the Case studies section. Projects featuring include The Great War Archive (collecting personal items from the First World War) and Project Woruldhord (collecting digital objects related to the teaching, study, or research of Old English and the Anglo-Saxon period of history). We also offer a list of links to many other examples of community collections on the Internet
Events
RunCoCo provided a series of training workshops to help others run their own community collection. No more events are planned, but resources from past events have been made available online, including presentations, hand-outs, links, and recordings of the talks given.
