Anyone can take part in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes. To get started merely go to the collection and select a document. Your picked document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the ideal side of the screen. After you have actually finished your transcription it is submitted for peer evaluation. A presentation of the procedure is included in.
the video listed below.

The function of the task is to get the help 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, documents from the American Revolution, governmental documents, documents about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anybody can participate in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of journals and notes.

A few years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing task called
Crowd. The function of the job is to employ the assistance of the public to transcribe countless 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, papers from the American Revolution, governmental documents, files about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Presently, the LOC is looking for aid transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans journals and notes..

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Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd project is a great opportunity for high school trainees 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 supply context for the files that are in need of transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.