Read and Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Notebooks and Diaries

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The purpose of the project is to employ the help of the public to transcribe thousands of primary source files that are housed by and have actually been scanned by the Library of Congress. Over the years there have been collections of documents from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental papers, documents about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of journals and notes.

A few years ago the Library of Congress introduced a crowd sourcing job called
The function of the job is to get the help of the public to transcribe thousands of main source documents that are housed by and have been scanned by the Library of Congress. Over the years there have been collections of documents from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, governmental documents, files about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans journals and notes..

Anyone can get involved in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals. Your picked document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the best side of the screen.
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Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is a good chance for high school trainees and some middle school trainees to find out about Walt Whitman while contributing to a national task. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that assist to supply context for the files that are in requirement of transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

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