Month: September 2019

Digitized Records in the National Archives Catalog: How Do They Get There?

by Matthew Schaefer, posted in Catalog, Digitization, Tech Tuesdays

Today's post comes from Jon Fletcher, Archives Specialist (Data Standards) in the Digital Public Access Branch of the Office of Innovation. Digital Imaging Lab, 12/2/2005 NAID 66798226 A great deal of work goes into preparing digitized records for inclusion in the National Archives Catalog. Each subsequent step along the lifecycle of digitized records is a … Continue reading Digitized Records in the National Archives Catalog: How Do They Get There?

New Search Feature: Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

by Matthew Schaefer, posted in Catalog, Citizen Archivists, Digitization, Research, transcription

This post is from the September 5th issue of the National Archives Catalog Newsletter. With more than 92 million pages of digitized records available to search in the National Archives Catalog, we are always working on ways to improve search results to better help you find what you’re looking for. That’s why we’re excited to … Continue reading New Search Feature: Optical Character Recognition (OCR)