The purpose of the job is to enlist the assistance of the public to transcribe thousands of main source documents that are housed by and have 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 files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anyone can participate in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes.

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

A couple of years ago the Library of Congress launched a crowd sourcing job called
The purpose of the task is to get the help of the public to transcribe thousands of primary source documents that are housed by and have been scanned by the Library of Congress. Over the years there have actually been collections of files from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, governmental documents, files about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans diaries and notes..

Anybody can participate in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents 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 composing your transcription appears on the ideal side of the screen.
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