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Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is a great chance for high school trainees and some middle school students to discover Walt Whitman while adding to a nationwide task. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that help to supply context for the documents that need transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

A couple of years ago the Library of Congress launched a crowd sourcing project called
The purpose of the task is to get the help of the 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 documents from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental documents, files about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans journals and notes..

The function of the job is to enlist 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 actually been collections of documents from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, presidential documents, files about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes.

Anyone can get involved in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes. Your chosen file will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for composing your transcription appears on the best side of the screen.
the video listed below.