Read and Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Notebooks and Diaries

The purpose of the project 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, papers from the American Revolution, governmental papers, documents about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anyone can get involved in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of journals and notes.

A few years ago the Library of Congress introduced a crowd sourcing task called
Crowd. The function of the task is to get the aid of the public to transcribe countless main source files that are housed by and have been scanned by the Library of Congress. Throughout the years there have actually been collections of files from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental documents, files about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Currently, the LOC is looking for aid transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans notes and diaries..

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd project is an excellent chance for high school trainees and some intermediate school trainees to find out about Walt Whitman while contributing to a national job. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that help to offer context for the documents that need transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

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Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes. To get started just go to the collection and select a document. Your chosen file will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for composing your transcription appears on the right side of the screen. After you have actually finished your transcription it is submitted for peer review. A presentation of the process is consisted of in.
the video below.

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