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

Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. To get going simply go to the collection and select a file. Your picked file will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for composing your transcription appears on the best side of the screen. After you have actually finished your transcription it is sent for peer review. A presentation of the procedure is consisted of in.
the video below.

The purpose of the job is to enlist the help of the public to transcribe thousands of main source files that are housed by and have actually been scanned by the Library of Congress. Over the years there have been collections of files from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, presidential papers, files about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals.

A couple of years ago the Library of Congress launched a crowd sourcing project called
Crowd. The function of the job is to employ the aid of the public to transcribe countless main source documents that are housed by and have been scanned by the Library of Congress. Throughout the years there have been collections of documents from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, governmental papers, documents about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball. Presently, the LOC is looking for assistance transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans journals and notes..

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