Read and Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Notebooks and Diaries

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd project is a good chance for high school trainees and some middle school trainees to learn more about Walt Whitman while contributing to a national project. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that help to supply context for the documents that require transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing project called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

A few years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing job called
Crowd. The purpose of the task is to employ the aid of the general public to transcribe thousands of primary source documents that are housed by and have actually been scanned by the Library of Congress. For many years there have been collections of files from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental documents, documents about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball. Currently, the LOC is seeking assistance transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans notes and diaries..

If you see it elsewhere, it has actually been utilized without authorization. Sites that take my (Richard Byrnes) work consist of CloudComputin and WayBetterSite.

Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals. To get going merely go to the collection and select a file. Your picked file will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the best side of the screen. After you have finished your transcription it is submitted for peer review. A demonstration of the process is included in.
the video below.

The purpose of the project is to get the help 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 been collections of documents from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental documents, files about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of journals and notes.

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