anchor.diff:  If you have a question that you don’t see answered, don’t hesitate to <a href="/about">contact us</a>.</p>
   
   <p><strong>What is it? </strong></p>
  -<p>DocumentCloud will be software, a Web site, and a set of open standards that will make original source documents easy to find, share, read and collaborate on, anywhere on the Web. Think of it as a card catalog for primary source documents. It will accelerate the work of those doing investigations — whether reporters, bloggers or others.  </p>
  +<p>DocumentCloud is both a repository of primary source documents and a tool for document-based investigative reporting. Think of the repository as a card catalog for primary source documents. When you upload a document to DocumentCloud, you can annotate it, see lists of people and places named in your documents, plot documents on a timeline and more. We're building tools that accelerate the work of reporters who need to make sense of large sets of documents. You can use it on small sets, too. </p>
   
   <p><strong>Yes, but what <em>is</em> it?</strong></p>
  -<p>Ruby (<a href="http://rubyonrails.org/">Rails</a>, <a href="http://www.sinatrarb.com/">Sinatra</a>) and JavaScript. Take a look at <a href="http://github.com/documentcloud">our GitHub projects</a> and <a href="/blog/author/jeremy/">Jeremy’s blog posts</a> to get a better sense of the tools we’re using.  </p>
  +<p>Ruby (<a href="http://rubyonrails.org/">Rails</a>, <a href="http://www.sinatrarb.com/">Sinatra</a>) and JavaScript. We're using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_%28software%29">Tesseract</a> for OCR and <a href="http://www.opencalais.com/">OpenCalais</a> for entity extraction. Take a look at <a href="http://github.com/documentcloud">our GitHub projects</a> and <a href="/blog/author/jeremy/">Jeremy’s blog posts</a> to get a better sense of the tools we’re using.</p>
   
  -<p><strong>Who can use it? </strong></p>
  -<p>Once documents have been added to DocumentCloud, anyone will be able to find and share them. Users will be able to search for documents by things like date, topic, person, location, etc. and will be able to do “document dives” — collaboratively examining large sets of documents.  </p>
  -<p>While anybody will be able to read documents, we’ll carefully vet the organizations who can add documents. </p>
  +<p><strong>What does it cost? </strong></p>
  +<p>Thanks to our funding from the Knight News Challenge, DocumentCloud is a free service.</p>
  +
  +<p><strong>Is there an API?</strong></p>
  +<p>Yes. </p>
   
   <p><strong>Who funds it? </strong></p>
   <p>The project has started thanks to a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. It is a 2009 winner of a <a href="http://www.newschallenge.org/">Knight News Challenge</a> grant. Our grant runs two years and we’ll be soon be seeking sustaining funding. </p>
  
positive.code: <p>Send us an e-mail at <a href="mailto:info@documentcloud.org?subject=partnership">info@documentcloud.org</a>  and let us know you’re interested. We're building a small group of beta testers, and will be opening contributions up more widely during the development process. </p>
  
  <p><strong>When will it be ready?</strong></p>
  <p>We're planning to begin introducing beta users in the Spring of 2010. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Will there be an API?</strong></p>
  <p>Yes. </p>
  
negative.code: <p>It will be of the utmost importance to us that the collection remain of the highest integrity, so we’re planning to limit the right to list documents, at least initially, to individuals and organizations involved in original reporting. Contributors will agree to a set of guidelines, and will have to vouch for the authenticity of the documents they upload. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Will I be able to list documents but keep them offline until my article is published?</strong> </p>
  <p>Yes. This is a project started by journalists who understand the needs of journalists and news organizations. Documents you upload aren't public until you publish them.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Will I be able to keep my documents behind a registration wall / pay wall?</strong> </p>
  <p>DocumentCloud is intended to be a index of publicly accessible source documents. Links to documents on sites with registration or reasonably priced pay walls will be allowed, but we won’t allow completely private sites. </p>
  