Hi,

I hope people don't mind some discussion about posts to the list, but
I thought others might be interested in similar questions so I might
as well post here.

It's an interesting project and I'm looking forward to following your
progress. I'm particularly curious to know whether quantifying the
amount of time volunteers can expect to spend will help or hinder your
recruitment efforts, but I also wondered if there was a particular
reason for not explaining which institutions and people are behind the
project?

Cheers, Mia

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On 12 July 2012 09:07, Colin Greenstreet
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Wednesday, July 12, 2012
>
> Recruiting volunteer project experts, project facilitators and project
> associates for MarineLives, a project using collaborative transcription,
> linkage and enrichment of High Court of Admiralty primary manuscripts,
> 1650-1669.
>
> MarineLives is an innovative academic project for the collaborative
> transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary manuscripts, which were
> originated in the High Court of Admiralty, London, 1650-1669. The end
> product will be a publicly and freely available online academic edition.
>
> The project is being conducted with the support of The National Archives,
> Kew, and will work collaboratively on high quality digital images for a
> complete volume of the court's records, selected from the period 1650-1669.
>
> The C17th High Court of Admiralty in London dealt with a range of maritime
> and commercial issues, including ship seizures during times of war, and wage
> disputes involving ships' crews, captains, owners, and freighters. The
> court's records provide a rich source of commercial, material and social
> history, as well as a source of maritime detail. They cover English,
> Scottish, Irish, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Flemish, French, Spanish,
> Portuguese, Genoese, Tuscan, Venetian, and Ottoman merchants, mariners,
> ships and trade.
>
> We are now seeking academics to join us as part-time volunteer project
> experts (ten to twenty hours commitment) and project facilitators (twenty to
> fifty hours commitment) between August and December 2012. Project induction
> and training will be provided in August 2012, with full project kick-off in
> early September 2012. Current team members include postgraduates and
> academics at the University of Cambridge and King's College, London.
>
> Project associates, who are asked to volunteer fifty hours of research time
> between September and December 2012, will be drawn from interested
> postgraduates, graduates, school students, and amateur local and maritime
> historians, both within and outside the United Kingdom.
>
> Volunteers for all three roles (project expert, project facilitator, and
> project associate) are welcome from both within and outside the United
> Kingdom. We have a particular interest in recruiting English speaking
> project volunteers from Barbados, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.
>
> This project offers participants an opportunity to acquire and deepen their
> digital editorial, project management, semantic markup and data mining
> skills.
>
> Please contact the project team ([log in to unmask]), if you would
> like further information, or access the project website
> (www.marinelives.org)