NASA Wants Your Ideas for Digitizing Rocket Scientist’s Notes

I think if they took the reCaptcha approach to get the text in a usable manner then used that to catalog and cross link the information.

After cataloging the information I would put it into some kind of photo viewing software that handles large sets of pictures well. Microsoft has an interesting product with seadragon that could handle this:

http://livelabs.com/seadragon/

Though I think that the software would need to be modified to do text search and hyperlinks in order to be the most useful to the largest number of people.

They could use reCaptcha for the text. The results on http://recaptcha.net/digitizing.html look promising.

They need a secondary goal. "Getting it out to the public" is incredibly vague. One of these would work:

1) Inspire high school kids to pursue a career in engineering 2) Get younger kids excited about the space program 3) Recording the notes for historical purposes

All of these seem to beg different formats and different presentations. I wish they had given more details about their secondary PR goals here... It's NASA, I know they have them.

The idea for the celebration location is easy: obviously they should celebrate it on the moon.