A few years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing task called
Crowd. The function of the task is to employ the help of the public to transcribe countless primary source documents 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 documents, documents about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball. Currently, the LOC is looking for assistance transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans diaries and notes..

The purpose of the task is to get the aid 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 combination of Major League Baseball. Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of diaries and notes.

Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and journals. Your picked document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for composing your transcription appears on the right side of the screen.
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Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is a great opportunity for high school trainees and some intermediate school trainees to discover about Walt Whitman while adding to a nationwide project. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that help to provide context for the files that are in need of transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing job called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.