SINGAPORE - Wanted: history enthusiasts to caption old photographs and transcribe handwritten manuscripts that contain a piece of Singapore's history.
They are invited to contribute to an upcoming portal that will carry some 3,000 unidentified photographs dating back to the late 1800s, and 3,000 pages of Straits Settlement records including letters written during Sir Stamford Raffles' administration of Singapore.
These are collections from the Government and individuals waiting to
be "tagged" on the new portal - The Citizen Archivist Project at www.nas.gov.sg/citizenarchivist.
For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra