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Inspiration from PepysDiary.com

March 30, 2007 by Ben Brumfield

The blog version of Pepys Diary shows the shows the power of an online community to provide context for a historical document. To take a page at random, Saturday, 26 March 1664 has explanations for legislative references and 17th century English usage provided by end-users through unstructured annotations..

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