Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd project is an excellent opportunity for high school trainees and some intermediate school trainees to learn more about Walt Whitman while adding 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 comparable crowdsourcing project called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

Anyone can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. To get going simply go to the collection and select a document. Your picked 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 submitted for peer evaluation. A demonstration of the procedure is included in.
the video listed below.

A couple of years ago the Library of Congress introduced a crowd sourcing task called
Crowd. The purpose of the project is to get the assistance of the general public to transcribe countless primary source files that are housed by and have been scanned by the Library of Congress. For many years there have been collections of documents from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, presidential documents, files about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Presently, the LOC is looking for help transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans notes and diaries..

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

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