$1 million to put documents online

This year's Knight News Challenge has prompted ProPublica and The New York Times to pitch a $1 million project that would launch an online repository of primary-source documents to enhance greater information sharing among news organizations and their audience, according to the Neiman Foundation.
From the report:

The project, which is called DocumentCloud, would let news organizations upload their materials for public consumption and analysis. (”Readers will also be able to quickly search, annotate and bookmark documents — and for the first time link directly to specific pages or passages.”) The proposal relies on a piece of software called DocViewer, which was developed by the Times’ Interactive Newsroom Technologies team.