Read and Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Notebooks and Diaries

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A few years ago the Library of Congress launched a crowd sourcing job called
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 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 papers, documents about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans notes and journals..

The function of the project is to enlist the assistance of the public to transcribe thousands of primary source documents that are housed by and have 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, documents about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anyone can participate 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 students and some intermediate school trainees to discover Walt Whitman while adding to a national job. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that assist to offer context for the documents that are in need of transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing job called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. To get going merely go to the collection and pick a file. Your picked 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 finished your transcription it is submitted for peer review. A presentation of the procedure is consisted of in.
the video listed below.

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