Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd project is a great opportunity for high school students and some intermediate school students to learn about Walt Whitman while contributing to a national project. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that assist to provide 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 somewhere else, it has been used without permission. Sites that take my (Richard Byrnes) work consist of CloudComputin and WayBetterSite.

The purpose of the job is to employ the help 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 actually been collections of files from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, presidential papers, files 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.

A couple of years ago the Library of Congress launched a crowd sourcing project called
The purpose of the job is to employ the assistance 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 papers, files about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans diaries and notes..

Anyone can get involved in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes. 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.
the video listed below.