[Corpora-List] Open Syllabus Project

[Alex Gil]

[This new corpus and research project might be of interest to members of
the corpora list]

The Open Syllabus Project <http://opensyllabusproject.org/> is pleased to
announce that is has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
to support its first year of development.

The OSP’s mission is to build a large-scale online collection of syllabi
and to build foundational tools for analyzing it, in order to advance
scholarly inquiry, promote institutional cooperation, and foster
pedagogical diversity. We believe that this critical mass of syllabi will
stimulate new research tools, drive policy change, foster best practices,
provide new metrics, and aid in the search, discovery, and the development
of new course materials.

Toward these ends we have assembled a team of scholars, librarians,
administrators, open scholarship activists who can make this ambitious
project a reality. We are lucky to have supporters in Dan Cohen’s Million
Syllabus Archive <http://www.dancohen.org/2011/03/30/a-million-syllabi/>,
Harvard University’s Berkman Center <https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/>  and
metaLab <http://metalab.harvard.edu/>, Columbia’s American
Assembly<http://americanassembly.org/>,
Butler Library and the English Department, University of Washington’s Project
Information Literacy <http://projectinfolit.org/>, and UNC’s Digital
Innovation <http://digitalinnovation.unc.edu/> group.`

Now, we need your help. We have data, but we need more. Whether a few
sheets or a few terabytes, please consider helping us to build this
collective dataset. In return, release a rich dataset of metadata to the
public, while protecting the original documents in a secure “research
sandbox” environment. Talk to your administrators, share your university,
college, departmental, or private collections. Let’s use the data we have
to drive institutional change, to experiment, and to innovate in this area.

We are also actively looking for researchers interested in natural language
processing and archive architecture, and for students at all levels who can
benefit from hands-on experience (and a modest compensation) working on a
tough, real-world problem.

Thanks to our funders we are able to support some initial rapid
development, but the long-term success of the project depends on your
participation. Visit us at opensyllabusproject.org to learn how to get
involved and stxay tuned for more developments.


OSP Team
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