Beyond Collections: Crowdsourcing for public engagement conference 2011
[Programme] [Venue and Accomodation] [Previous Beyond Debates] [RunCoCo Project]
Programme
10.00-10.30 |
REGISTRATION & COFFEE |
Registration area |
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10.30-10.45 |
Once Upon a Time... Melissa Highton, University of Oxford |
Isis |
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10.45-11.45 |
KEYNOTE: 'Don't Panic Mr Mainwaring!' Robert Ashton, The Barefoot Entrepreneur |
Isis |
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Tales of Big Society.
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11.45-12.20 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS |
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| A Tale of Two Cities: Physical and Digital Communities Hope Wolf, Kings College London |
Isis | ||
| The JISC funded project Strandlines explores one of London's most famous streets, the Strand, and its past and present communities. It seeks to find whether the telling of life stories might help develop a more 'active sense of community' in a transient urban area. It is the flagship project for the Centre for Life Writing Research at King's College London, and draws on expertise from different academic disciplines and departments: English Literature, Geography and e-Research. Hope will be discussing the important role creativity played in the project; the ways in which the past was connected with the present through life writing classes; and the interplay between digital and physical places. Hope will also offer news of the AHRC's SPICE project (Stimulating Participation in the Informal Creative Economy) which enables exchanges of ideas between different community groups. | |||
| or | “…apart from that he was completely naked…” and other stories of the
amazing everyday in the community Chris Morgan ‘Mog’, University of Glamorgan, GEECS |
Evenlode | |
| Stories hold a special power to engage people and when those stories are personal, honest and genuine they can captivate and inspire in a way that excites, moves and motivates us. All personal stories have a special honesty that the storyteller themselves is not always conscious of, as so much can be said in a pause, a change of tone and a turn of phrase in which we hear the truth and genuineness of experience. As part of the Communities 2.0 digital inclusion project Mog’s team collects digital stories that community members make for themselves, their community, family and friends using technology that many experience for the first time. This is the story of their work to date. | |||
12.20-12.50 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS |
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| Character Journey Valerie Wallace and Tim Causer, Bentham Project, UCL |
Isis | ||
| The story of the super-transcribers involved in the project to understand the thousands of manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham. | |||
| or | Choose Your Own Adventure Chris Wild, The Retronaut |
Evenlode | |
| 'Time Travels’ from the creator of How To Be A Retronaut and inventor of The Retroscope, and a leader of the Museumpreneurs. | |||
12.50-14.00 |
LUNCH |
Acland Building |
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14.00-14.30 |
A Road-Movie Alun Edwards and Stuart Lee, University of Oxford |
Isis |
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For the Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten project, a team from
Oxford trained librarians and archivists in Germany to run public
participation days to gather everyday objects from World War I. The road
trip to these digitisation days was gruelling - the results were
staggering.
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14.30-15.00 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS |
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| A Cautionary Tale Arfon Smith, Zooniverse / University of Oxford |
Isis | ||
| The experience of The Zooniverse team with their citizen science and crowdsourcing efforts and the changing role of the citizen scientist. | |||
| or | A saga of creativity
Gail Durbin, Victoria and Albert Museum |
Evenlode | |
| How can a nationally focussed museum use their web presence (official and on social networks) to foster the interest and expertise of users, as well as sharing their own authoritative information? | |||
| or | A Nursery Rhyme Melissa Highton, University of Oxford |
Cherwell | |
| Sustainable Collections: How does your garden grow? Contrary to expectations Oxford University's crowdsourced and community collections of open educational resources continue to thrive on fertile ground inside and outside the institution. Melissa will give an overview of the ways in which these are supported and embedded in practice for sustainability. | |||
15.00-15.30 |
COFFEE |
Registration area |
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15.30-16.00 |
A History of the World Jane Ellison, Partnership Development Manager, BBC Audio and Music |
Isis |
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The BBC and the British Museum asked the public, do you have an object
which connects you, your family, or your area to a major historical
moment? Museums in all parts of the UK were also encouraged to create
their own history of the world from their collection and from their
visitors’ objects.
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16.00-16.50 |
The Sequel Alastair Dunning (JISC), Stuart Lee (University of Oxford), and Chris Batt OBE |
Isis |
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Debate and discussion about academic crowdsourcing and community
content in the UK and beyond, with highlights and interesting ideas from
the day. Also look out for news of future JISC funding.
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16.50-17.00 |
And They All Lived Happily Ever After. Melissa Highton, University of Oxford |
Isis |
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17.00 |
Please join us for a glass of wine in the foyer to mark the end of the conference and the success of RunCoCo. | ||
Speakers
Chair for the day: Chris Batt, OBE
Host: Melissa Highton
RunCoCo Project Manager: Alun Edwards
Community collections speakers:
- Robert Ashton, The Barefoot Entrepreneu
- Alistair Dunning (JISC)
- Gail Durbin (V&A),
- Alun Edwards (RunCoCo, University of Oxford)
- Jane Ellison (BBC),
- Stuart Lee (University of Oxford),
- Mog (University of Glamorgan),
- Arfon Smith (The Zooniverse / University of Oxford),
- Valerie Wallace and Tim Causer (University College London),
- Chris Wild (The Retroscope),
- Hope Wolf (Kings College London),
Booking Information
This event is now fully booked.