A few years ago the Library of Congress introduced a crowd sourcing project called
Crowd. The function of the project is to employ the help of the general public to transcribe thousands of main source files that are housed by and have been scanned by the Library of Congress. Throughout 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 integration of Major League Baseball. Presently, the LOC is seeking assistance transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans diaries and notes..

Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. To get started merely go to the collection and pick a file. Your picked document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the right side of the screen. After you have completed your transcription it is sent for peer review. A presentation of the process is consisted of in.
the video listed below.

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Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd task is a good chance for high school students and some middle 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 documents that need transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

The function of the task is to employ 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 actually been collections of documents from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental documents, files about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anybody can participate in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals.