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Crowdsourcing the Transcription of CIA Documents

posted by janrinok on Friday March 20 2015, @05:18AM   
from the whatever-happened-to-OCR? dept.

prospectacle writes:

The National Archives [USA] are asking for volunteers to transcribe thousands of pages of declassified CIA documents. To assist, you have to log in to the National Archives Catalog. The endeavour is part of Sunshine Week which is an open-government initiative, started by a group of newspaper editors, to educate people about the importance of government transparency and the dangers of excessive state secrecy.

You can browse some of the raw documents here.

• The NSA will use this. The NSA will use this. (Score: 2, Interesting) by Pseudonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2015, @10:19AM

  by Pseudonymous Coward (4624) on Friday March 20 2015, @10:19AM (#160319)

  asking for volunteers to transcribe thousands of pages of declassified

  I'm taking 'leaked' isn't the same as 'declassified', is it?

  The endeavour [...] is an open-government initiative, started by a group of newspaper editors

  Even if they're transcribing the Snowden leaks, I'm pretty sure the NSA/GCHQ/whathaveyou will request and or use archive.gov's data set to evaluate the extent of damage to their programs and public opinion.
  Then again, if We The People also have access to this data set? This can only be a good thing.

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• Re:The NSA will use this. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2015, @04:28PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2015, @04:28PM (#160458)

  > Even if they're transcribing the Snowden leaks,

  They aren't. Snowden's stuff is still under wraps. That was one of his conditions of releasing it to Poitras and Greenwald. Remember?

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