A few years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing job called
Crowd. The purpose of the job is to get 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. Over the years there have actually 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 looking for assistance transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans notes and journals..

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd project is a great chance for high school students and some middle school trainees to discover Walt Whitman while adding to a nationwide project. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that assist to provide context for the documents that need transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing project called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

The function 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 been collections of files from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, presidential documents, files about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anyone can get involved in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries.

Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes. To start merely go to the collection and pick a file. Your selected document 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 submitted for peer review. A demonstration of the process is included in.
the video listed below.

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