Call for Collaborators

Call for Collaborators (2023-2024 academic year)

In this second phase, the LSLdb team of the Roberson Project is seeking collaborators at colleges or universities that have a robust institutional history of memorialization and/or other forms of public recognition of figures or events in support or defiance of any or all of the following:

We are also seeking partners – archivists and/or faculty members in pertinent fields, working in teams or as individuals – who 

The scope of these individual projects will vary according to the needs and resources of the respective instructors or researchers. However, our expectation is that each partner project will contribute at least five complete memorial entries to their respective “spoke site” of the LSLdb in either the fall or spring terms.

We further expect our collaborators to evaluate the “back” and “front” ends of the LSLdb to assist us in fine-tuning and improving its operation at both the data-entry and the public interface stages. We are seeking not only additional data for the LSLdb but also full and constructive feedback about the experiences of students and their archivist or faculty supervisors. 

Prior experience working with digital humanities projects like the LSLdb is not a requirement or even desirable. No coding or other IT skills or experience is necessary. We have built all of the database infrastructure. Our hope is that the support and instruction that we can provide to our collaborating partners before and during their participation will enable those without experience with the Omeka platform or other data models like it to join fully in the project. The feedback we receive from you is essential in making this project useful and meaningful to the teaching and learning you do on your campus and to the public project of better analyzing and understanding Lost Cause memorialization in higher education.

Whether you wish to apply to join as a collaborator or are just curious, please fill out this online questionnaire, and we will get back to you