Read and Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Notebooks and Diaries

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

Anyone can participate in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes. To begin just go to the collection and select a document. Your selected document 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 finished your transcription it is sent for peer review. A demonstration of the procedure is included in.
the video below.

The purpose of the project is to enlist the aid of the public to transcribe thousands of primary 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 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. Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd job 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 job called
Crowd. The function of the project is to enlist 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. For many years there have been collections of documents from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental papers, files about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball. Presently, the LOC is seeking help transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans notes and diaries..

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