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A couple of years ago the Library of Congress launched a crowd sourcing task called
Crowd. The function of the project is to enlist the help of the public to transcribe thousands of main source documents that are housed by and have actually been scanned by the Library of Congress. Throughout the years there have been collections of documents from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental documents, files about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball. Currently, the LOC is seeking aid transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans notes and diaries..

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd project is a great chance for high school students and some intermediate school trainees to discover Walt Whitman while contributing to a nationwide project. 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.

The purpose of the task is to employ the help 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 files from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental papers, documents about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball. Anybody can get involved in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of journals and notes.

Anybody can participate in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals. To begin simply go to the collection and select a document. 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 finished your transcription it is sent for peer evaluation. A presentation of the process is included in.
the video below.