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Phoenix666 - Training - Crowdsourcing the Transcription of CIA Documents

posted by Subsentient on Wednesday March 18 2015, @07:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-million-monkeys-typing-on-a-million-typewriters dept.

prospectacle writes:

The National Archives are asking for volunteers to transcribe thousands of pages of declassified CIA documents. 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.

[Editor's Note: The dates on most of the CIA documents are 25 years old or older, so perhaps are of more interest to amateur historians than government transparency watchdogs.]

 
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