Keesing's World News Archive Puts Web 2.0 into Practice by Marydee Ojala, Newsbreaks (Mar 5)
Keesing's World News Archive (www.keesings.com) is a new online archive of historical reporting over the past 75 years. "... its editors select the most historically significant political, social, and economic events, extract critical information from worldwide news sources, and write concise reports. These reports exist for the record, stripping bias away and correcting errors in the original press reports."
There are Web2.0 elements for subscribers to this service, tagging articles being one.
Searching is free. This is an OR engine - it will find pages that have any of the words, but you can limit the search by date range. And it will cluster results to make locating the right group easier.
It did a good job on the Halifax explosion - finding an article on the damage in October 1045 from that explosion in Halifax harbour - and grouping it into the 1 item cluster - disasters.
It costs to read. There is an option to buy access for the day (just $7.95 US)
Some articles on current events are available for free under Breaking History and give an idea of the high quality of the entries.
Posted by Gwen at March 5, 2007 04:19 PM