A few years ago the Library of Congress released a crowd sourcing project called
Crowd. The purpose of the task is to employ the aid of the general public to transcribe countless 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 files from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, presidential documents, files about suffrage, and files about the integration of Major League Baseball. Presently, the LOC is seeking assistance transcribing a collection of
Walt Whitmans notes and journals..

Applications for EducationThe LOCs Crowd project is a great opportunity for high school students and some intermediate school trainees to find out about Walt Whitman while adding to a nationwide task. All of the collections in Crowd do have timelines and some other resources that help to provide context for the documents that require transcription.
The Smithsonian has a similar crowdsourcing task called Smithsonian Digital Volunteers.

Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd task to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries. To get started just go to the collection and choose a document. Your selected document will appear on the left side of the screen and a field for writing your transcription appears on the right side of the screen. After you have completed your transcription it is sent for peer review. A demonstration of the procedure is consisted of in.
the video listed below.

The purpose of the job is to get the aid 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 been collections of documents from the American Civil War, papers from the American Revolution, presidential documents, files about suffrage, and documents about the integration of Major League Baseball. Anybody can take part in the LOCs Crowd job to transcribe documents in the Walt Whitman collection of notes and diaries.

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