NASA Requests Help With Von Braun's Notes

DynaSoar writes "NASA is soliciting ideas from the public on how best to catalog and digitize the collected notes of Wernher von Braun. 'We're looking for creative ways to get it out to the public,' said project manager Jason Crusan. 'We don't always do the best with putting out large sets of data like this.' The PDF notes are those of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, the first director of NASA's Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and are typed with copious handwritten notes in the margin. According to the official request for information, NASA needs ideas on what format to use (PDF), how to index the notes, and how to create a useful database. The unique nature and historical value of the data, literally discovered in boxes six months ago, is what motivated NASA to ask the public for ideas."

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Re:NASA

[elrous0]

Ironic, since Von Braun had a habit of just dumping jews in his factories and forgetting about them.

Re:Anonymous Coward

[Red Flayer]

Read all about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djvu

Discuss.

Any post that ends with the command, "Discuss", should be taken out back and shot.

It's pretentious, annoying, and detracts from whatever valid points (if any) are contained in the post.

If the topic of the post is worth discussing, it'll be discussed. If not, it will be ignored.

And just to note, djvu is better for file size... at the cost of lossy compression. In my experience, the lossiness isn't really that bad, but we are dealing with handwritten notes. For something of historical value like this, I'd rather a lossless format being available in addition to djvu and/or pdf.