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

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Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals. To get going just go to the collection and pick a document. Your chosen document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the best side of the screen. After you have completed your transcription it is submitted for peer review. A presentation of the process is included in.
the video listed below.

The function of the task is to employ the assistance 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 actually been collections of documents from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, presidential papers, 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 journals and notes.

A couple of years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing job called
Crowd. The purpose of the project is to employ the assistance of the general public to transcribe countless primary source files that are housed by and have actually been scanned by the Library of Congress. For many years there have actually been collections of files from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, governmental documents, documents about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Presently, the LOC is looking for assistance transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans notes and diaries..