I think if they took the reCaptcha approach to get the text in a usable manner then used that to catalog and cross link the information.
After cataloging the information I would put it into some kind of photo viewing software that handles large sets of pictures well. Microsoft has an interesting product with seadragon that could handle this:
Though I think that the software would need to be modified to do text search and hyperlinks in order to be the most useful to the largest number of people.
After cataloging the information I would put it into some kind of photo viewing software that handles large sets of pictures well. Microsoft has an interesting product with seadragon that could handle this:
http://livelabs.com/seadragon/
Though I think that the software would need to be modified to do text search and hyperlinks in order to be the most useful to the largest number of people.