Before we launched Footnote, we knew search would be central to the success of the site. But, we couldn’t really know how people would want to search the site, or how our data and images would be best searched until we had some people using the site and a wide selection of data to test…
Last week Justin and I had a nice conversation with historian and blogger Dan Cohen, who has some expertise in digital history. When Footnote launched last month, Dan had some concerns about details in our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, so he contacted us to get more information. We really appreciated him calling to…
When I was a kid, watching the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, as the Ark is taken to an enormous warehouse and stored among piles of boxes of who knows what, I wanted to shout (with every other kid in the theater), “No, that’s really important!” Then I remember thinking, “If the ark…
Today we officially launched Footnote, making more than 4 million images available online through a special partnership with the National Archives.Many of these images are available for the first time on the web. You can read the press release about the partnership with NARA on their site or on our site. You can see some…
It’s been far too long since our last post, so I thought I’d make a quick post to give you an update on a couple of changes you may have noticed on the site.First, we’ve added more of the Pennsylvania Archives. We only have two series left to go–Series 2 Volume XIX and Series 3…
We’re back in the office, making sense of what we learned and making plans to improve the site. I wanted to take a minute to thank everyone who made our California road trip such a success. First, thank you to everyone who let us into their homes. It’s quite an act of faith to let…
