MRP: Marine Lives - Launch of website & Twitter account

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Marine Lives - Launch of website & Twitter account
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

Editorial history

16/07/12, CSG: Created page


Overview

This page is a project announcement for MarineLives


To all you who have been taking an interest in the launch of MarineLives (both actively and passively),

I would like to let you know that we have now set up a project Twitter account: collaborate@marinelivesorg

We have also launched a MarineLives website targeted at potential project volunteers: http://www.marinelives.org

Content, as it is created by the project, between September and December 2012, will initially be behind a firewall, as we transcribe, link and enrich primary source documents from a volume of the records of the High Court of Admiralty, London, to be chosen from the period 1650-1669.

The end product, however, will be a freely and publicly web available academic edition, which we hope to have up on the web in early 2013. If this project, which is a Proof of Concept, goes well, it may be the first of many, and may help pioneer a new way of collaboration to produce humanities research.

The current candidate volume is 1656, but the project team is open to suggestions and preferences from those who are taking an interest in this project.

How can you best support us?

Our immediate need is to recruit high quality project experts, project facilitators, and project associates. We, as a project team, have a strong commitment to using this project to enhance outreach - between private and state schools, between universities and schools, and between professional and public historians (and other students of the humanities). Do let us know if you have any suggestions as to individuals or institutions we might usefully contact.

Our work is being conducted with the interest and (non-financial) support of the National Archives, Kew. In the longer term, if this Proof of Concept is successful, we be looking for funding for this not-for-profit venture. But more of that another day.

With best regards

Colin Greenstreet
Project Director
MarineLives
London

E: colin.greenstreet@gmail.com
Profile: http://independent.academia.edu/ColinGreenstreet/About

W: www.marinelives.org
TW: collaborate@marinelivesorg

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