Archive for the ‘Government-Records’ Category.
1st March 2008, 04:20 pm
Recently, some old documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were found. And the Dallas Morning News wants your help going through them. There are 54 groups of content on this page, each of which contains a list of contents scanned into PDF format.
There’s a forum devoted to discussion of the documents, but it doesn’t appear to be very busy at the moment. There’s also a place you can contact if you find something in the documents, but you have to be a member of DallasNews.com to use it.
16th February 2008, 01:32 pm
Free Government Information is doing an experiment for tagging government documents, and they need you to help. Details at http://freegovinfo.info/epatagging, but briefly…
The group has taken 32 documents from the EPA Web site and posted them to the Internet Archive, at http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=epapilotproject . They want you to read the documents, and then describe them and tag them in del.icio.us. You can see what’s been tagged so far at http://del.icio.us/tag/epapilotproject?setcount=100 . The project will run for three months and then the data generated by users will be analyzed, with the group determining how many participated, average number of tags per document, how the documents were described, etc. This is not as much fun as tagging the LOC’s Flickr photos, but it’s an interesting experiment.
10th August 2007, 08:54 am
Footnote.com has announced that it has digitized the entire Project Blue Book, which is a collection of official records covering government investigations of UFOs, 1947-1969. It’s available for free at http://www.footnote.com/.
You can http://www.footnote.com/browse.php#6283401 browse the information or do a keyword search. I did a search for aluminum and got over 300 results. The results are presented in images of scanned pages, with keywords highlighted. The results I saw were mostly memos of UFO spottings and the conclusion that folks were seeing aircraft.
Frankly I have no idea what to search for in a UFO archive — not really my specialty. So I did like the fact that Footnote allows people to comment on and annotate interesting documents. So you can not only keyword search and browse the total collection, but also browse highlights. Scanned documents have a place to add comments about documents as well as annotations to the documents themselves.
