Operation War Diary wins Best of the Web Award
11 Apr 2014 02:58 PM
Operation
War Diary - a key project in our First World War 100 programme - won
an award at Museums and the Web, a major annual conference for museums and
technology. The conference took place last week in Baltimore, USA, where the
project won in the research/collections online category.
Since the launch of the project over 10,000 people
across the globe have volunteered to tag names, places and other details in
our First World War unit diaries. With over 200
diaries already tagged and verified, this innovative crowdsourcing project goes
one step further than traditional transcription by using the data to digitally
map and analyse patterns and trends in the unit war diaries, offering new
perspectives on the First World War.
Operation War Diary is a collaboration between The
National Archives, Imperial War Museums and Zooniverse, and is part
of First World War 100, our centenary programme
of events and digitisation releases. This new digital platform has been created
to guide people through the vast collection of historic records, letters,
wills, maps, photographs, illustrations and artworks held by The National
Archives.
Volunteers wishing to take part in the now award-winning
Operation War Diary can join the project here:www.operationwardiary.org