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How does it differ from other digital publishing initiatives?

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Digital publishing has been developing for decades, reaching incredible scale with such mass digitization projects as Hathi Trust, Google Books, and Eighteenth Century Collections Online.  Thanks to long-term initiatives such as the Internet History Sourcebooks Project and Digital History, online versions of historical sources are now integrated throughout US history teaching, in high schools, colleges, and universities.  For-profit media companies such as Pearson respond to teacher demand by integrating such digital material into the textbooks they sell; the Open Educational Resource movement features them in its freely-distributed curricula.

What distinguishes SourceLab is the ambition to draw students into the process of preparing Internet resources for teaching and research.  We want to help them prepare the next generation of historical sources, for use by researchers, teachers, students and the general public alike.  Our graduates will get course credit for their work, towards their degrees; author credit on the resulting publications, for their résumés; and invaluable experience in applying their writing, research, editorial, and communications skills to an important problem facing anyone interested in history today.

We can't understand what the Internet's new historical record has to teach us about the past, until we improve our ability to investigate, understand and present its new riches.   In SourceLab, we're creating a curricular and technological structure which will provide students the space in their educational careers to do just that.

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