More about the Means: How Might it Work?
Perhaps the easiest way to approach this question is to answer another: what would students need to participate in it?
First, a course or set of courses, that could teach them basic concepts and skills of documentary editing (above and beyond the critical reading skills they should learn in any history class).
Second, an editorial board that could solicit projects for the proposed series, and supervise student work on them, providing for stable, web-based publication of the student’s work, following rigorous editorial review and approval.
Third, a process by which degree-earning ‘internship’ credit could be awarded to the students, commensurate with their fulfillment their projects and their participation in the life of the ‘lab.’
Following SourceLab’s approval for development at Illinois in the Fall of 2014, a SourceLab Working Group was formed—composed of students, faculty, and staff—to work on the basic organizational and curricular structure for SourceLab. We’re drawing up a charter, detailing both how the necessary Editorial Board might be set up, and how various roles within it relate to existing departmental work loads and course offerings. Our aim is to complete this work by the end of AY 2015-2016.
Meanwhile, a seminar was organized in the Spring of 2015, to start the process of building prototype editions. Over time, this course will develop into a course on documentary editing, with the expectation that students will take it before attempting to work on the series more generally.
Our plan is to present this as OER.
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