A couple of years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing task called
Crowd. The function of the project is to enlist the assistance of the general public to transcribe countless main source documents that are housed by and have actually 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 files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Presently, the LOC is seeking aid transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans diaries and notes..

The purpose of the project is to enlist the help of the public to transcribe thousands of main 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 files from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, presidential papers, files about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anyone can participate in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of journals and notes.

Anybody can get involved in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals. Your selected 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.
the video below.

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

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