Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is a great chance for high school students and some intermediate school students 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 requirement of transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

Anyone can get involved in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals. To get begun simply go to the collection and choose a file. Your chosen document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the best side of the screen. After you have actually finished your transcription it is submitted for peer evaluation. A presentation of the process is included in.
the video below.

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

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A few years ago the Library of Congress introduced a crowd sourcing job called
Crowd. The purpose of the project is to enlist 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 files from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, governmental documents, files about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball. Presently, the LOC is seeking aid transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans notes and journals..