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

Anyone can get involved in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe files in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. To begin just go to the collection and pick a document. Your selected document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the ideal side of the screen. After you have finished your transcription it is sent for peer review. A presentation of the process is consisted of in.
the video below.

A couple of years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing job called
The purpose of the project is to get 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 been collections of files from the American Civil War, documents from the American Revolution, governmental papers, files about suffrage, and files about the combination of Major League Baseball.
Walt Whitmans notes and journals..

If you see it in other places, it has been used without permission. Sites that steal my (Richard Byrnes) work include CloudComputin and WayBetterSite.

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd job is a good opportunity for high school trainees and some middle school trainees to discover Walt Whitman while adding to a nationwide project. 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.