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

Anybody can participate in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of journals and notes. Your selected document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for composing your transcription appears on the ideal side of the screen.
the video listed below.

A few years ago the Library of Congress introduced a crowd sourcing job called
The purpose of the project is to enlist the assistance 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, governmental documents, documents about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans notes and diaries..

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The function of the task is to get the aid 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 papers, documents about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes.