Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. Your picked 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.
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A couple of years ago the Library of Congress launched a crowd sourcing project called
The purpose of the job is to employ the help of the public to transcribe thousands of main source files that are housed by and have 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, presidential papers, documents about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans diaries and notes..

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd task is a good opportunity for high school students and some intermediate school students to discover 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 documents that are in requirement of transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing job called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

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

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