Friday, 25 March 2011

Crowdsourcing history: European museums need your help to digitise World War One records

Time is running out. In just three years a century will have passed since the start of the First World War and with it thousands of irreplaceable records will have disappeared.



That is why Europeana (@EuropeanaEU), a Europe-wide digital archive consisting of over 1,500 museums, galleries, and institutions has launched a multinational drive to digitise pictures, memorabilia, letters, notes and other family heirlooms before they decay and are lost forever.

Through their website, http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en, Europeana wants users to submit scanned or photographed family objects, papers, records or other materials to be preserved in their web archive. Europeana will make each item available to the public on their World War One web archive.

Read full article: http://sociable.co/2011/03/24/crowdsourcing-history-european-museums-need-your-help-to-digitise-world-war-one-records/

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