NASA Wants Your Ideas for Digitizing Rocket Scientist’s Notes(wired.com)
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NASA Wants Your Ideas for Digitizing Rocket Scientist’s Notes
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/nasadata-2/
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They could use reCaptcha for the text. The results on http://recaptcha.net/digitizing.html look promising.
They need a secondary goal. "Getting it out to the public" is incredibly vague. One of these would work:
1) Inspire high school kids to pursue a career in engineering 2) Get younger kids excited about the space program 3) Recording the notes for historical purposes
All of these seem to beg different formats and different presentations. I wish they had given more details about their secondary PR goals here... It's NASA, I know they have them.
1) Inspire high school kids to pursue a career in engineering 2) Get younger kids excited about the space program 3) Recording the notes for historical purposes
All of these seem to beg different formats and different presentations. I wish they had given more details about their secondary PR goals here... It's NASA, I know they have them.
The idea for the celebration location is easy: obviously they should celebrate it on the moon.
After cataloging the information I would put it into some kind of photo viewing software that handles large sets of pictures well. Microsoft has an interesting product with seadragon that could handle this:
http://livelabs.com/seadragon/
Though I think that the software would need to be modified to do text search and hyperlinks in order to be the most useful to the largest number of people.