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A few years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing task called
The purpose of the task is to get the assistance of the public to transcribe thousands of main source documents 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, presidential documents, documents about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans diaries and notes..

Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes. To get going simply go to the collection and choose a file. Your selected document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the right side of the screen. After you have actually completed your transcription it is sent for peer evaluation. A presentation of the procedure is included in.
the video below.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd task is an excellent chance for high school trainees and some intermediate 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 help to supply context for the files that need transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

The purpose of the project is to enlist 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 actually been collections of files from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental papers, files about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anyone can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes.