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History

Initial conversations in this area took place in 1992-1994, between Leonid Dubinsky and Baruch Gorkin. Most of the requirements were understood then, but not the need for universal web-availability and crowdsourcing: access to the Internet was not what it is now.

We realized that a standard approach to text markup has to be used, and settled on SGML (XML did not yet exist).

In the summer of 2006, discussions restarted between Dubinsky and Gorkin. Crowdsourcing and potential commercialization were discussed. In the Fall of 2006, Michoel Koritz joined in.

In 2019, work on the 19 Kislev archive (www.alter-rebbe.org) lead to a renewed interest in the project.