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Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd task is an excellent chance for high school trainees and some middle school trainees to learn about Walt Whitman while contributing to a nationwide task. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that assist to offer context for the files that are in requirement of transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing project called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

Anybody can get involved in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. Your picked document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for composing your transcription appears on the ideal side of the screen.
the video listed below.

The function of the task 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 actually been collections of files from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental documents, documents about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anybody can get involved in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals.

A few years ago the Library of Congress launched a crowd sourcing project called
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 files from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental papers, documents about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans journals and notes..