Read and Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Notebooks and Diaries

Anyone can take part in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals. To begin just go to the collection and pick a document. Your selected document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the ideal side of the screen. After you have finished your transcription it is sent for peer evaluation. A demonstration of the procedure is consisted of in.
the video below.

A few years ago the Library of Congress introduced a crowd sourcing task called
Crowd. The function of the project is to employ the assistance of the public to transcribe countless primary source files that are housed by and have been scanned by the Library of Congress. Throughout the years there have been collections of files from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, governmental documents, documents about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Currently, the LOC is looking for aid transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans notes and diaries..

The purpose of the project is to get the help of the public to transcribe thousands of main source files that are housed by and have been scanned by the Library of Congress. Over the years there have actually been collections of documents from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, governmental documents, files about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anybody can get involved in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd project is a good opportunity for high school trainees and some intermediate school trainees to learn more about Walt Whitman while adding to a nationwide project. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that help 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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