A few years ago the Library of Congress launched a crowd sourcing project called
Crowd. The function of the job is to employ the assistance of the general public to transcribe countless 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, papers from the American Revolution, governmental papers, documents 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 journals..

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd task is a good opportunity 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 help to supply context for the files that are in need of transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing job called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

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Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes. 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.
the video listed below.

The purpose of the project is to get the help of the public to transcribe thousands of primary 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, papers from the American Revolution, governmental papers, 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 journals and notes.