The original images on Footnote are incredible.  Everyone agrees on that.   Every time you think you’ve finished a high-level review of the contents in the categories on Footnote, another two million images are added. While we all revel in the … Continue reading →

Many Footnote members are uploading historical photos and graphics that they want to share with the Footnote community as Spotlights.  The images often contain many persons or items of interest and by annotating them, others can see the names of … Continue reading →

Last night we added a new feature to the site that will help you get more from Footnote without doing more work. When you find something on the site that you are interested in, look for a  button and click … Continue reading →

Two weeks ago, I gave a keynote presentation titled “We Media: How Audiences Are Changing The Future of News and Information” (PDF) at the Fall Meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers in Arlington, Virgina. The ASIDIC meeting … Continue reading →

When we were building Footnote we knew we had to build something that would make sense of documents. A computer is not smart enough to read the text or handwritten copy found in most historical documents. That is where people … Continue reading →

It just got a little easier to find what you’re looking for. Now you can see where your search terms appear on a document, say The Pennsylvania Archives (free), right on the search results page. Rolling your mouse over any … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →