Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Holocaust historical data goes digital

Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, is teaming up with Google to make its photographs and documents interactive and searchable on the Internet. The first  130,000 photos hit the web Wednesday.
Although much of Yad Vashem's archive was already available through its formidable website, da new project enables users to search keywords and data just like a Google search.
A social network-like component allows viewers to contribute to the project by adding their own stories, comments and documents about family members who appear in the online archives.

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