Sarah Barksdale: Generating a Heritage Pamphlet for the Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility, MD

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Sarah BARKSDALE: Generating a Heritage Pamphlet for the Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility, Maryland
Sarah Barksdale is the Historian for the United States Department of the Air Force, Andrews AFB, Maryland.
The Department of the Air Force Heritage Program requires its field historians to generate a unit heritage pamphlet detailing the pertinent history, lineage, and honors of that organization. This product is intended to be a public-facing document that the Air Force Historical Research Agency recommends placing on the unit’s website. Sarah used ABBYFineReader and OpenRefine to clean and transform data. Using computational tools historians can more efficiently start extracting data sets such as aircraft types, units, dates, or personnel numbers from the history office’s reference library. An initial StoryMap was prototyped.