The function of the task is to employ the assistance of the public to transcribe thousands of main source documents 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 combination of Major League Baseball. Anyone can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is a good opportunity for high school students and some middle school students to find out about Walt Whitman while adding to a nationwide job. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that assist to offer context for the documents that are in requirement of transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

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A few years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing job called
Crowd. The function of the task is to employ the assistance of the public to transcribe countless main source documents that are housed by and have been scanned by the Library of Congress. For many 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 combination of Major League Baseball. Currently, the LOC is looking for assistance transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans notes and diaries..

Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes. To begin merely go to the collection and select a file. Your chosen document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for composing your transcription appears on the best side of the screen. After you have finished your transcription it is sent for peer evaluation. A demonstration of the procedure is included in.
the video below.