Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd project is a great opportunity for high school students and some intermediate school students to find out about Walt Whitman while contributing to a national project. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that help to offer context for the documents that require transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing job called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

The function of the project is to employ the assistance of the public to transcribe thousands of primary source files 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, presidential papers, documents about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anyone can get involved in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals.

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Anyone can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. To get going simply go to the collection and select a file. Your picked document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the right side of the screen. After you have completed your transcription it is submitted for peer review. A demonstration of the process is consisted of in.
the video below.

A couple of years ago the Library of Congress introduced a crowd sourcing task called
Crowd. The purpose of the job is to get the help of the general public to transcribe thousands of primary source files that are housed by and have 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, presidential papers, 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 journals..