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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, and thereby to integrate good editorial practices–as well as new digital publishing skills–into daily life of humanities departments.  We are developing both technological and editorial structures which will help us train students to prepare the next generation of historical sources, for use by researchers, teachers, students and the general public alike.  Our students will gain both course credit for their work–helping them complete their degrees–and author credit on the resulting editions, for their résumés thereafter.

Most importantly, they will have the experience of working to solve a pressing scholarly problem: how to create modes of scholarship that can integrate the new historical record being produced by the Internet without losing track of where all this information about the past is coming from.

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