Editonline.us was a privately held website that held transcriptions of Maryland State Archives documents in government records and special collections. This was an experimental web site designed to assist interested teachers, archivists, genealogists, and other scholars in the transcription and editing of historical documents interactively and on line. The archives scanned historical documents and placed the images on line for viewing in dynamic or static "books" of the record series or manuscript collection. The transcriber of the document and contributor of explanatory footnotes could be anywhere with web access.