Read and Transcribe Walt Whitman’s Notebooks and Diaries

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd task is an excellent chance for high school students and some middle school students to discover about Walt Whitman while contributing to a nationwide task. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that assist to provide context for the files that require transcription.
The Smithsonian has a comparable crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

Anybody can get involved in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files 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 best side of the screen.
the video below.

The function of the task is to get the assistance of the public to transcribe thousands of main source documents 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, documents from the American Revolution, presidential documents, documents about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anybody can get involved in the LOCs Crowd project to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries.

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A couple of years ago the Library of Congress introduced a crowd sourcing job called
The purpose of the task is to enlist the help of the public to transcribe thousands of primary source documents that are housed by and have been scanned by the Library of Congress. Over the years there have been collections of documents from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, governmental papers, files about suffrage, and documents about the combination of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans notes and journals..

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