The function of the project is to enlist the help of the public to transcribe thousands of primary source documents 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, presidential documents, files about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anybody can participate in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals.

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Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is a great opportunity for high school trainees and some intermediate school students to learn about Walt Whitman while contributing to a national project. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that help to provide context for the files that are in requirement of transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

A few years ago the Library of Congress introduced a crowd sourcing project called
The function of the project is to enlist the help 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, documents from the American Revolution, governmental documents, documents about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans notes and journals..

Anyone can take part in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals. To begin just go to the collection and pick a file. Your chosen file will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the best side of the screen. After you have actually finished your transcription it is sent for peer review. A demonstration of the procedure is included in.
the video below.