The purpose of the project is to get the help of the public to transcribe thousands of main source files 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, presidential documents, documents about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anyone can participate in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd task is an excellent chance for high school students and some intermediate school students to discover Walt Whitman while adding to a nationwide job. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that assist to supply context for the files that require transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing project called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

A couple of years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing job called
The purpose of the job is to enlist the aid of the public to transcribe thousands of primary source files 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, documents from the American Revolution, presidential papers, documents about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans notes and journals..

Anyone can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals. To get going just go to the collection and choose a document. Your chosen file 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 completed your transcription it is sent for peer review. A demonstration of the process is consisted of in.
the video listed below.

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