Building on a $50,000 seed grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in 2006, the nonprofit Jefferson Institute designed a system to convert the military’s 40 million paper documents into searchable, digital format. Jefferson leveraged Knight’s grant to raise an additional $1 million, mostly from the Norwegian government, to build the software, purchase equipment and pay a staff of 35 to digitize nearly four million records by December 2010, when the ministry took over. Today, users can keyword search to access thousands of records a day.



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