Documentalist Research Grant

[theo-armour]

@Stephen-Charles-Cole

A possible next step with the Jean Fowler project

Documentalist Research Grant Ideas

Prepare a document to send out to various contacts and libraries

Easy for our contact to:

• Grasp the mission
• Identify type of possible candidates
• Disseminate to others with ease
• View as a pleasurable opportunity

Document

• Works as attachment or printout - ie a PDF
• Can be posted on a bulletin board or attached to a forum post
• Attractive and inviting
• Contains all details necessary such that our contact has little or nothing to do apart from disseminating to their contacts

The following is a preliminary effort at the contents of such a document

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Documentalist Research Grant

Mission and Vision

• Identify degree of notability
  • See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
  • We know subject is of some historical notability but is the subject of sufficient notability to warrant a Wikipedia article?
• Create the beginning of a "Digital Twin" ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin
• Create a permanent historical archive ~ using Internet Archive and GitHub

Tasks

• Triage nine boxes of physical content
• Collate and reorganize contents by date, type, locale
• Prepare moderately detailed outline of contents
• Prepare oner-page outline of observations, conclusions and recommendations for further efforts
• • Maintain online documents and timesheets relating to the tasks at hand

Benefits

• $25 per hour
  • Estimate two hours each for nine bank boxes of content
  • Further time upon approval
• Resumé-able project
• Supervision by historian and tech
• All efforts by grantee to become part of the archived legacy
• An opportunity to create a history that would otherwise be lost