Anybody can get involved in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals. To get begun just go to the collection and pick a file. Your picked document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the right side of the screen. After you have actually completed your transcription it is sent for peer evaluation. A presentation of the process is included in.
the video listed below.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is a great opportunity for high school trainees and some middle school students to find out about Walt Whitman while contributing to a nationwide project. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that assist to offer context for the documents that need transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing project called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

If you see it in other places, it has been used without permission. Sites that steal my (Richard Byrnes) work consist of CloudComputin and WayBetterSite.

A couple of years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing job called
The function of the task is to enlist 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 been collections of documents from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, governmental papers, files about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans diaries and notes..

The purpose of the project is to enlist 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 documents from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, presidential documents, documents about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anyone can participate in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries.