More news from NARA ... last week
we discussed NARA
This
week NARA
The Innovation
Hub is open. Located on the first floor of the National Archives building
in Washington , D.C.
We have
planned transcription parties as well as hosting Wikipedian meetings as well.
Read
all that AOTUS (Archivist of the United States
The
original concept as discussed in Open
Government Plan, National Archives and
Records Administration is ...
With a focus
on agile development, the work will focus on exploring new ideas, developing
proof-of-concept pilots and web applications as well as furthering the
collaboration with the public through scan-a-thons, hackathons and challenges.
The Innovation Hub will explore a variety of projects, including:
o
Citizen archivist crowdsourcing tools
o
An external collaboration network where researchers
and NARA
o
Tools for citizen digitization efforts
o
Collaboration efforts with the Wikipedia community
It
will be interesting to see where this goes and how individuals (e.g. citizens)
can support digitization and Wikipedia community activities.
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