I do not have the tech-saavy know-how to take on such a project, but here's what I imagine the steps to involve...
1. Information Absorbtion: Students spend time learning about the San Francisco Renaissance, reading texts and cultural/historical context - similar to what we did in class. Each student would be assigned a writer to be in charge of. By the end of the year they will be experts, more or less... perhaps there would be a group for history/culture of the time.
2. Data Collection: Students collect images, and information on their writer- as many primary sources as possible. They can either download images, texts, sound clips (Howl reading) online AND do outside library research - a scanner should be available for the class to import images and primary texts.
3. Organization of Data: Much of this would involve the teacher (me) to create sections for the archive. I would organize it by writer with subcategories (biography, images, poetry, texts, etc.) and have a section on context - cultural norms at the time, historical events, etc.
4. Finalization: Editing the archive - cleaning and quality controlling links and images, further organization of data.
This is clearly hypothetical, though a cool idea, me thinks. Copyright issues would surely arise, along with limitations of time along with technical ability.
Here's some of material I would want students to gather...
Allen Ginsberg reads Howl
Pictures of writers - Rexroth
Scanned images of manuscripts - Kerouac's journal page
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