Read and Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Notebooks and Diaries

Anybody can get involved in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals. Your selected file will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the best side of the screen.
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The function of the job is to enlist the assistance of the public to transcribe thousands of primary source files that are housed by and have actually been scanned by the Library of Congress. Over the years there have been collections of files from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, governmental documents, files about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anybody can participate in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries.

A few years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing task called
The purpose of the task is to employ 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 files from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, presidential papers, documents about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans notes and diaries..

If you see it in other places, it has actually been used without permission. Sites that take my (Richard Byrnes) work consist of CloudComputin and WayBetterSite.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd task is an excellent chance for high school students and some middle school trainees to learn more 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 provide context for the files that need transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing job called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

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