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Anybody can participate in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of journals and notes. Your chosen file will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the right side of the screen.
the video below.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd task is a good chance for high school students and some middle school students to discover 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 files that need transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing project called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

A couple of years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing task called
Crowd. The purpose of the project is to employ the help of the general 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 documents from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, presidential papers, files about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball. Presently, the LOC is seeking help transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans notes and diaries..

The purpose of the task is to employ the aid 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 documents from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, presidential papers, files about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes.