A few years ago the Library of Congress launched a crowd sourcing task called
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 actually 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, documents about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans journals and notes..

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Anybody can participate in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes. To start merely go to the collection and choose a document. 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. After you have completed your transcription it is submitted for peer evaluation. A demonstration of the process is consisted of in.
the video listed below.

The function of the project is to get 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, governmental documents, files about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anybody can get involved in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is a good chance for high school students and some middle school students to learn more about Walt Whitman while adding to a national project. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that assist to offer context for the files that need transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing job called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.