Operation War Diary wins Best of the Web Award

Operation War Diary wins Best of the Web Award

10 April 2014

Operation War Diary - a explanation project in our First World War 100 order of exercise - won an award at Museums and the Web, a greater annual conference for museums and technology. The conversation took place last week in Baltimore, USA, at which place the project won in the research/collections online category.

Since the cast of the project over 10,000 the multitude across the globe have volunteered to join names, places and other details in our First World War one diaries. With over 200 diaries before that time tagged and verified, this innovative crowdsourcing proposal goes one step further than orally transmitted transcription by using the data to digitally draw and analyse patterns and trends in the unit war diaries, offering new perspectives ward the First World War.

Operation War Diary is a collaboration between The National Archives, Imperial War Museums and Zooniverse, and is share of First World War 100, our hundredth anniversary programme of events and digitisation releases. This just discovered digital platform has been created to preside over people through the vast collection of historic records, literature, wills, maps, photographs, illustrations and artworks held dint of The National Archives.

Volunteers wishing to take piece in the now award-winning Operation War Diary have power to join the project here: www.operationwardiary.org