A Footnote in History

We often go on, don’t we, about the sharp division between old and new media? About the wailing and gnashing of teeth that char­ac­ter­ises the shift from one to the other.

So it’s nice to see a new product that per­fectly marries the two. And with footnote, we’re talking about very old media. It’s a col­lab­or­a­tion between the National Archives (the American ones) and third-​​party developers to create a way of finding and annot­ating old doc­u­ments using Adobe Flash tech­no­logy. Sadly, it costs $9.99 a month to sub­scribe, though a free mem­ber­ship will let you see what is avail­able, and allow users to create project pages col­lecting various documents.

Solution Watch has a very thorough write-​​up.

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