Read and Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Notebooks and Diaries
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The purpose of the project is to employ the aid 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 been collections of files from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, governmental papers, documents about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anybody can get involved in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries.
Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd task is an excellent opportunity for high school trainees and some intermediate school students to find out about Walt Whitman while adding to a nationwide project. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that assist to supply context for the documents that need transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing project called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.
A couple of years ago the Library of Congress introduced a crowd sourcing job called
The purpose of the task is to get the assistance 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 documents, documents about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans notes and journals..
Anyone can get involved in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of journals and notes. Your chosen file will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the ideal side of the screen.
the video below.
