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 We now have five project advisors (Dr Stuart Dunn (Lecturer, digital humanities - KCL); Richard Blakemore (PhD candidate, C17th marine history - Selwyn, Cambridge); Dr Charlene Eska (assistant professor, linguistics/palaeography - Virginia Tech, US); Margaret Schotte (PhD candidate, C17th & C18th history of marine science - Princeton); and Jo Pugh (National Archives, Kew).
-In addition to me as project advisor/facilitator [MODIFY AS APPROPRIATE], we have three further facilitators - a graduate student at KCL (formerly at Mansfield College, Oxford, 1st class history degree), a graduate student at LMH, Oxford (formerly at Groningen), and a secondary school teacher, who is an experienced local historian and palaeographer.  We are looking for one, possibly two, further project facilitators, and are keen to have one based in the United States.
+In addition to me as project advisor/facilitator [MODIFY AS APPROPRIATE], we have three further facilitators - a graduate student at KCL (formerly at Mansfield College, Oxford, 1st class history degree), a graduate student at LMH, Oxford (formerly at Groningen), and a secondary school teacher, who is an experienced local historian and palaeographer.  We are looking for one, possibly two, further project facilitators, and are keen to have one based in North America.
 We have ten project associates, and are looking for a further ten to fifteen such associates, as well as a further two project facilitators.  Our project associates are drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds, including an archivist at the National Maritime Museum, a writer of historical novels, an editor of a digital edition of Mozart's letters, several students at Westminster school in London, and several third year history undergraduates at Nottingham University.
-The team is looking quite international with members born in England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland, and the US.
+The team is looking quite international with members born in England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Canada, and the US.
 We are kicking the project off with the core group of advisors and facilitators on Monday 20th August at the National Archives, Kew, and with the full team of project associates in the week commencing September 3rd, by web conference.  We are also hoping to hold a post end of project conference, provisionally in the last week of January 2013, which all project members will be invited to attend, together with invited academics, archivists, school teachers, and public historians.

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	==Proof copy of History Today MarineLives article==		==Proof copy of History Today MarineLives article==

−	~~[[On~~ the ~~crest~~ of ~~a wave\|~~On the crest of a wave]]	+	View or download article on MarineLives to be published in the History Matters section of History Today, September 2012:
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		+	[http://independent.academia.edu/ColinGreenstreet/Books/1854649/On_the_crest_of_a_wave On the crest of a wave]

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 Dear [INSERT NAME]
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 Twitter: @marinelivesorg
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-==Chaseup email to a responder who has not followed up on longform background email==
+==Chaseup email to a responder who has not followed up on long form background email==
 Dear [INSERT NAME]

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 ==Call for Volunteers: Short form==
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 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MarineLives
 Twitter: @marinelivesorg

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 Dr Eska will be assisting the MarineLives project team with (a) defining palaeography training needs (b) pointing towards palaeographical online (and hardcopy) resources (c) helping to set editorial policy and standards (d) acting as an expert to resolve palaeographical problems which cannot be resolved in the individual facilitated project teams.
-An article about our project will appear in this September's issue of History Today.  I am attaching a [[near final proof|near final proof]] to this email, should you be interested in reading it.
+An article about our project will appear in this September's issue of History Today.  Attached below to this email is a near final proof, should you be interested in reading it.
 It would be good to hear whether you would like to discuss our project further by phone.

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 The above is in addition to approaching local and marine historical societies, and using digital humanities mailing groups and other mailing lists in UK and overseas, to publicise the project and to recruit for all three types of role. See, for example, the announcement on the IHR website  (http://www.history.ac.uk/news/2012-07-12/marinelives-call-project-volunteers).
-We have established a project website (www.marinelives.org) to facilitate recruitment and also a project Twitter account (@marinelivesorg), again to facilitate recruitment, and later to maintain interest and cohesiveness amongst project members.
+We have established a project website (http://www.marinelives.org) to facilitate recruitment and also a project Twitter account (@marinelivesorg), again to facilitate recruitment, and later to maintain interest and cohesiveness amongst project members.
 Very best wishes

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 We are in discussion with several more academics about joining as project advisors. As remarked above, we have a particular need for an individual with strong GIS skills and interest.  The aim is to have complementary skills amongst both experts and facilitators.
-The role of facilitator is if anything more important than that of project experts.  Facilitators may be post docs, grad students, public local historians, or indeed more experienced academics.  Key to this role will be people skills, an interest in supporting and training and developing project associates as some of them struggle with palaeography for the first time.  As a core team we will build online training material in August (some is already done) to provide as much online help for the basics as possible.  One of the big value adds from the facilitators, I believe, will be at the linkage and enrichment stage.  At this stage, the experience of public local and marine historians, of museum based educationalits, and other experienced people, is likely to be invaluable in suggesting other secondary and primary sources to attempt to link people, places, events, etc in the transcriptions.
+The role of facilitator is if anything more important than that of project advisor.  Facilitators may be post docs, graduate students, public local historians, or indeed more experienced academics.  Key to this role will be people skills, an interest in supporting and training and developing project associates as some of them struggle with palaeography for the first time.  As a core team we are building online training material in August to provide as much online help for the basics as possible.  One of the big value adds from the facilitators will be at the linkage and enrichment stage.  At this stage, the experience of public local and marine historians, of museum based educationalits, and other experienced people, is likely to be invaluable in suggesting other secondary and primary sources to attempt to link people, places, events, etc in the transcriptions.
 '''Recruitment of project associates'''

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 *  Dr Stuart Dunn, a lecturer in digital humanities and a landscape archaeologist at King's College, London, is a project advisor on virtual collaboration  (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/people/dunn/index.aspx).  He is currently co-investigator for an ongoing AHRC funded study of crowd sourcing, and has a strong academic interest in virtual collaboration.
-We are in discussion with several more academics about joining as project experts. As remarked above, we have a particular need for an individual with strong GIS skills and interest.  The aim is to have complementary skills amongst both experts and facilitators.
+We are in discussion with several more academics about joining as project advisors. As remarked above, we have a particular need for an individual with strong GIS skills and interest.  The aim is to have complementary skills amongst both experts and facilitators.
 The role of facilitator is if anything more important than that of project experts.  Facilitators may be post docs, grad students, public local historians, or indeed more experienced academics.  Key to this role will be people skills, an interest in supporting and training and developing project associates as some of them struggle with palaeography for the first time.  As a core team we will build online training material in August (some is already done) to provide as much online help for the basics as possible.  One of the big value adds from the facilitators, I believe, will be at the linkage and enrichment stage.  At this stage, the experience of public local and marine historians, of museum based educationalits, and other experienced people, is likely to be invaluable in suggesting other secondary and primary sources to attempt to link people, places, events, etc in the transcriptions.

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 *  Richard Blakemore, a doctoral candidate at Selwyn, is a project advisor on HCA documentation on the MarineLives project as well as contributing insight into mid-C17th marine matters (http://cambridge.academia.edu/RichardBlakemore). He will be working next year on a European Research Council grant on a two year cross-European project on mariners' wages run by a principal investigator at the University of Exeter, and has four years of experience dealing with HCA and other marine records from the early C17th
-*  Dr Stuart Dunn, a lecturer in digital humanities and a landscape archaeologist at King's College, London, will be a project expert on virtual collaboration  (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/people/dunn/index.aspx).  He is currently co-investigator for an ongoing AHRC funded study of crowd sourcing, and has a strong academic interest in virtual collaboration.
+*  Dr Stuart Dunn, a lecturer in digital humanities and a landscape archaeologist at King's College, London, is a project advisor on virtual collaboration  (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/people/dunn/index.aspx).  He is currently co-investigator for an ongoing AHRC funded study of crowd sourcing, and has a strong academic interest in virtual collaboration.
 We are in discussion with several more academics about joining as project experts. As remarked above, we have a particular need for an individual with strong GIS skills and interest.  The aim is to have complementary skills amongst both experts and facilitators.