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

A couple of years ago the Library of Congress launched a crowd sourcing task called
The purpose of the project is to get the help of the public to transcribe thousands of main 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, documents from the American Revolution, presidential papers, files about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans diaries and notes..

Anybody can participate in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes. Your picked file will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the ideal side of the screen.
the video listed below.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is a great opportunity for high school students and some intermediate school students to discover Walt Whitman while contributing to a national task. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that help to offer context for the documents that require transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing job called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.