Eric Ulken: January 2009 archive
Filling in the blanks on DocumentCloud
January 28, 2009
Back in November, some folks from The New York Times and ProPublica filed an ambitious grant proposal in the Knight News Challenge competition. It asks for $1 million to fund DocumentCloud, a solution that would apply the wisdom of the crowd to the problem of organizing and examining documents.The much-buzzed-about idea aims to develop open standards and APIs to make source documents "easy to find, share, read and collaborate on." (You can find the full text of the proposal here.)
I asked three of the proposal's authors, Aron Pilhofer of the Times and Scott Klein and Eric Umansky of ProPublica, to elaborate on their vision for document nirvana. More...
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