Anyone can get involved in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. Your chosen 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.
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Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd task is an excellent opportunity for high school trainees and some middle school students to discover Walt Whitman while contributing to a national project. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that assist to supply context for the files that are in requirement of transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing project called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

A few years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing job called
The purpose of the project is to employ the aid of the public to transcribe thousands of main source files that are housed by and have been scanned by the Library of Congress. Over the years there have actually been collections of documents from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, governmental documents, files about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans notes and journals..

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The function of the project is to get the help 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 been collections of documents from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, governmental documents, files about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries.