A few years ago the Library of Congress launched a crowd sourcing project called
Crowd. The purpose of the job is to enlist the aid of the general public to transcribe thousands of primary source files that are housed by and have been scanned by the Library of Congress. Over the years there have been collections of files from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, presidential papers, documents about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball. Currently, the LOC is looking for help transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans journals and notes..

Anybody can participate in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. Your picked 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.
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The purpose of the job is to enlist the aid of the public to transcribe thousands of primary source documents that are housed by and have actually been scanned by the Library of Congress. Over the years there have actually been collections of documents from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental documents, documents about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anybody can get involved in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals.

If you see it elsewhere, it has actually been used without approval. Sites that steal my (Richard Byrnes) work consist of CloudComputin and WayBetterSite.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd task is a good opportunity for high school students and some middle school students to discover Walt Whitman while adding to a national task. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that assist to offer context for the files that need transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing job called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.