The purpose of the job is to get the aid of the public to transcribe thousands of primary source files that are housed by and have actually 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, documents about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anybody can participate in the LOCs Crowd task 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. To begin just go to the collection and pick a document. Your selected 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. After you have finished your transcription it is sent for peer review. A demonstration of the procedure is included in.
the video below.

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A couple of years ago the Library of Congress introduced a crowd sourcing task called
The function of the project is to get the aid 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, documents about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans journals and notes..

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is a good opportunity for high school students and some intermediate school trainees to discover Walt Whitman while contributing to a national job. 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.