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.
[...] Ian Delaney writes about Footnote. a way to view and annotae (if you like) a large collection of historical documents. [...]
Thanks for the info! This can come in handy for those who do research.