First World war diaries

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apowell
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First World war diaries

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The National Archives have launched Operation War Diary :

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.


Follow this link if you are interested: http://www.operationwardiary.org/

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Adrian
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Re: First World war diaries

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the site Seems a bit complicated not really understanding it :cry: Do we put the info in?? :?
No insult inferred or intended :thumbup: RF
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Thanks for the link Adrian looks interesting
Rocky I found it confusing too
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Re: First World war diaries

Post by apowell »

Hi,

rockyfowler wrote:the site Seems a bit complicated not really understanding it :cry: Do we put the info in?? :?
No insult inferred or intended :thumbup: RF


I fully understand and after spending sometime looking at the website I'm no wiser :lol:

mjay wrote:Thanks for the link Adrian looks interesting
Rocky I found it confusing too


Let's moniter this website because it has a lot of potention and maybe will become clearer :shock:

Take care
Adrian
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