Anybody can participate in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. To get going just go to the collection and pick a file. Your chosen 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 actually completed your transcription it is submitted for peer evaluation. A presentation of the process is consisted of in.
the video listed below.

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

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

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd task is a great chance for high school students and some intermediate school students to discover Walt Whitman while contributing to a national job. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that help to provide context for the files that need transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

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