The purpose of the job is to employ 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. Over the years there have actually been collections of files from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental papers, files about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anybody can get involved in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of journals and notes.

A couple of years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing task called
The purpose of the task is to employ the help of the public to transcribe thousands of main 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 files about the integration of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans journals and notes..

Anyone can get involved in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. To get going just go to the collection and pick a file. Your selected file will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for composing your transcription appears on the ideal side of the screen. After you have actually finished your transcription it is submitted for peer review. A presentation of the procedure is consisted of in.
the video listed below.

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

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