The official home of the Declaration of Independence on Wednesday joined forces with the home of, among other things, the most comprehensive article on Declaration, the fifth album by the California metal group Bleeding Through.
The National Archives hired its first "Wikipedian in residence," Dominic McDevitt-Parks, a graduate student in history and archives management at Simmons College in Boston and a seven-year volunteer Wikipedia editor.
McDevitt-Parks' main job will be to augment and improve Wikipedia articles that could benefit from information housed in the National Archives and to lure other archivists into the Wiki-world, according to a Q-and-A posted on the Archives' blog.
"Archives preserve our cultural history, McDevitt-Parks said, "Wikipedia brings it to the people."
Joseph Marks
Joseph Marks covers government technology issues, social media, Gov 2.0 and global Internet freedom for Nextgov. He previously reported on federal litigation and legal policy for Law360 and on local, state and regional issues for two Midwestern newspapers. He also interned for Congressional Quarterly’s Homeland Security section and the Associated Press’s Jerusalem Bureau. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s in international affairs from Georgetown.
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