Anyone can get involved in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. To get begun merely go to the collection and choose a file. Your picked document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for composing your transcription appears on the right side of the screen. After you have actually finished your transcription it is submitted for peer evaluation. A presentation of the process is included in.
the video listed below.

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A few years ago the Library of Congress introduced a crowd sourcing task called
Crowd. The purpose of the job is to get the assistance of the general 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 actually been collections of documents from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, governmental papers, files about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball. Presently, the LOC is looking for help transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans notes and diaries..

The function of the task is to enlist the assistance 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, papers from the American Revolution, presidential papers, documents about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anyone can get involved in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of journals and notes.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd project is a great opportunity for high school students and some middle school students to find out 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 offer context for the documents that require transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.