A couple of years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing job called
The purpose of the project is to get the aid of the public to transcribe thousands of main 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, papers from the American Revolution, presidential documents, files about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans notes and journals..

Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. To begin just go to the collection and choose a document. Your selected file will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the ideal side of the screen. After you have actually completed your transcription it is sent for peer evaluation. A demonstration of the process is included in.
the video below.

The purpose of the project 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 files from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental papers, documents about suffrage, and documents about the combination 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.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is an excellent chance for high school trainees and some middle school trainees to find out about Walt Whitman while adding to a nationwide project. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that help to supply context for the files that are in requirement of transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing project called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

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