Read and Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Notebooks and Diaries

Anyone can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. To start merely go to the collection and choose a file. Your picked 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 actually finished your transcription it is sent for peer review. A presentation of the process is included in.
the video below.

A couple of years ago the Library of Congress launched a crowd sourcing project called
Crowd. The function of the job is to enlist the help of the public to transcribe thousands of main source files that are housed by and have actually been scanned by the Library of Congress. For many years there have been collections of documents from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, presidential documents, files about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball. Presently, the LOC is looking for aid transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans journals and notes..

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The purpose of the project is to get the aid 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 papers, files about suffrage, and documents 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.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is a good chance for high school trainees and some intermediate school students to discover Walt Whitman while contributing to a national task. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that help to supply context for the files that need transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

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