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Oxford University Computing Services is looking for a Project Officer (part-time, fixed-term) to work on the RunCoCo project. The work involves:

* running a communication campaign and developing engaging Web content to successfully promote the RunCoCo project and support its user community
* managing project events and overseeing the production of training materials
* providing advice to a number of community digitisation projects

Details and an application form are available from
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/ Completed applications must be received
by 12 noon on 26th March 2010, and interviews will be held on 7th
April 2010.

RunCoCo is a JISC-funded project (based at the Learning Technologies
Group of OUCS) which uses training activities to encourage the
formation of community collections. In community collection projects
the cost of digitising photographs (or films or interviews) is spread
out across the community (education and public sectors) and not borne
entirely by the host institution. The community involvement sometimes
focuses more on users tagging or commenting on existing collections,
rather than the public contributing digital items. RunCoCo will
demonstrate how successful collections can be put together by smaller
individual units than the expensive digitisation projects that receive
funding from traditional (and now severely reduced) sources. More
details are on the website http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/

Best wishes, Ally

Alun Edwards
Manager of RunCoCo | Learning Technologies Group | Oxford University Computing Services | 13 Banbury Road | Oxford OX26NN
E: alun.edwards@oucs.ox.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 1865 283347
W: http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ RunCoCo: how to run a community collection online

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