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Title    Crowdsourcing the Transcription of CIA Documents
Date    Friday March 20 2015, @05:18AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the whatever-happened-to-OCR? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/03/19/1421234

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.

Links

  1. "prospectacle" - https://soylentnews.org/~prospectacle/
  2. "asking for volunteers to transcribe thousands of pages of declassified CIA documents" - http://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/transcribe/
  3. "Sunshine Week" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Week
  4. "here" - https://catalog.archives.gov/search?q=*:*&rows=20&offset=0&tabType=document&facet=true&facet.fields=oldScope,level,materialsType,fileFormat,locationIds,dateRangeFacet&highlight=true&f.recordGroupNumber=263&SearchType=advanced

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