A couple of years ago the Library of Congress introduced a crowd sourcing task called
The purpose of the project is to get the aid 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 actually been collections of files 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 diaries and notes..

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 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, presidential documents, documents about suffrage, and documents 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 notes and journals.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is a great opportunity for high school trainees and some middle school trainees to discover about Walt Whitman while adding to a nationwide task. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that assist to offer context for the documents that require transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

Anybody can get involved in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of journals and notes. To get going simply go to the collection and pick a file. Your chosen document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for composing your transcription appears on the best side of the screen. After you have actually completed your transcription it is sent for peer evaluation. A demonstration of the process is included in.
the video listed below.

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