WWI... The History of the Great War

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The 100th anniversary is being commemorated mainly in Europe.  Recently discovered archives of "War Diaries" have been digitized are available for research.  The problem is the data is obvously all "analog" or unsearchable.

This project enables people to help "tag" people, places and things found within the diaries making them now searchable.  I recently joined and have tagged a few pages so far... 

http://www.operationwardiary.org/#/

About Operation War Diary


Operation War Diary brings together original First World War documents from The National Archives, the historical expertise of IWM and the power of the Zooniverse community.

It will create new 'Citizen Historians'. Working together we will make previously inaccessible information available to academics, researchers and family historians worldwide, leaving a lasting legacy for the centenary of the First World War.

The Project Outcomes


Data gathered through Operation War Diary will be used for three main purposes:
•to enrich The National Archives' catalogue descriptions for the unit war diaries,
•to provide evidence about the experience of named individuals in IWM's Lives of the First World War project
•to present academics with large amounts of accurate data to help them gain a better understanding of how the war was fought

Operation War Diary depends on the work done by The National Archives to digitise the unit war diaries, and they've made individual pages available free of charge on the Zooniverse platform for this project. Whole war diaries are available from Discovery, The National Archives' catalogue, where they can be searched free of charge and downloaded for a small fee.

All of the data produced by Operation War Diary will eventually be available to everyone free of charge- a lasting legacy and a rich and valuable introduction to the world of the War Diaries.