It seems the brainiacs at NASA are asking for the general publics help. They are looking for the best way to analyze and electronically catalog a precious collection of notes that chronicle the early history of the human space flight program.

WIRED states that the notes [pdf] are those of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, the fist director of NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and are typed with copious hand written notes in the margin. According to the official request for information [pdf], NASA needs ideas on what format to use, how to index the notes and how to create a useful database.

The unique nature and historical value of the data, literally discovered in boxes six months ago, is what motivated NASA to ask the public for ideas.