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RSS Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress – Recent Updates

  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress Update: Women's History Month, Transcribathons, and a New Challenge March 21, 2019
    Celebrating Women's History Month!  Earlier this month we challenged you, our wonderful By the People volunteers, to complete 150 pages of both the Mary Church Terrell and Clara Barton campaigns. The challenge ran March 6th to 15th, and you smashed our goals! Friday, March 15th we were only six pages off from our Barton goal, with 1,191 pages […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Help us improve! March 18, 2019
    We recently updated By the People (crowd.loc.gov) to make it easier to get started and review pages. Give it a try! Help us keep improving by completing this 3 minute survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PNJR3ZW By the People invites the public to explore, transcribe, review, and tag digitized Library collections as virtual volunteers to improve search, access, and computation […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress Women's History Month and a quick survey March 6, 2019
    Let's complete 300 new pages for Women's History Month by March 15th Let's celebrate the centenary of women's suffrage in the USA, by focusing on the lives and leadership of suffrage activists Mary Church Terrell and Clara Barton, whom you can read more about on the Campaigns and Projects pages. Can we complete 150 pages for […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: The Latest February 22, 2019
    Webinar Next Wednesday Join By the People Community Managers Wednesday, February 27, at 2:00 pm EST for a one-hour webinar overview. We'll discuss project development and goals and demonstrate transcription and review. Community managers will also highlight some of the amazing materials that have already been transcribed by virtual volunteers and take a sneak peek at new […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: The Latest February 7, 2019
    Updates: Friendlier review and more! You may have noticed a few changes to By the People this week. On Monday we released Concordia version 0.4.17, which includes improvements we’re really excited about.  Some highlights: Improved review workflow! When reviewing, you’ll see a new dialogue box when you “Accept” an item. After accepting you can keep reviewing by […]
  • New Lincoln pages and your transcriptions on loc.gov January 18, 2019
    Hello! We've published the first batch of By the People transcriptions! That's right, your work is already searchable in the Library of Congress website. Less than three months after the launch of By the People, we have published 781 transcribed pages. There are actually several thousand other completed pages, but we started with this test batch. Browse […]
  • We're open! January 4, 2019
    Happy 2019, one and all! We hope you had a restful and joyful turn of the year, and are ready to put your know-how to work on transcribing and reviewing documents on By the People. We're happy to say we've started adding your reviewed transcriptions back into the Library's website, and will send another email in […]
  • Still Time for Last-Minute Giving December 31, 2018
    The Library’s resolution for 2019 is to offer more opportunities to engage lifelong learners like you with our unique treasures and programs. Make your gift before we close the books on 2018! Your gift supports FREE exhibitions, events, programs, and activities that connect millions of people across the nation and around the world with our […]
  • Make a Year-End Gift to the Nation's Library December 26, 2018
    The Library’s resolution for 2019 is to offer more opportunities to engage lifelong learners like you with our unique treasures and programs. Make your gift before we close the books on 2018! Your gift can: Inspire curiosity in children to read more books and reflect on the power of books to change their lives Ignite thoughtful […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: 'Tis the season December 20, 2018
    ...for your incredible contributions to By the People (crowd.loc.gov)! In less than 2 months over 3,000 volunteers started work on over 20,600 transcriptions, including many two-page spreads. Of these 3,231 are fully transcribed and reviewed, and 15,978 await review. We are testing the process for bringing completed transcriptions to loc.gov, where they'll be searchable alongside the original images to […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: A Full Fall December 11, 2018
    November was our first full month of transcribing, reviewing, and tagging, and a busy one at that!  By The People On November 19, we celebrated the 155th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address with our first transcribe-a-thon! Classes from around the country joined us online and in-person to contribute to the Letters to Lincoln Challenge.  The […]
  • Make Your Gift to the Nation's Library November 27, 2018
    The day has arrived—#GivingTuesday—a day when your gift makes a difference and a statement. The Library of Congress depends on donations from people like you to produce exhibitions, events, programs, and activities that connect millions of people across the nation and around the world with our unique collections, experts, and services. Gifts bring the Library […]
  • Spark a Lifelong Adventure of Learning November 20, 2018
    This year is the second year the Library of Congress is participating in #GivingTuesday—a global giving movement. On Tuesday, November 27, we are asking you to make a gift to spark a lifelong adventure of learning. Your gift supports FREE exhibitions, events, programs, and activities that connect millions of people across the nation and around […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: A Lincoln Anniversary Transcribe-A-Thon November 9, 2018
    Save the date to join us in-person or online Monday, November 19! The Library of Congress will mark the 155th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address with a one-day celebration, featuring a pop-up exhibit of the earliest known draft of the speech, and a Letters to Lincoln transcribe-a-thon for volunteers on and offsite.  […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Make it meaningful this Veteran's Day! November 7, 2018
    A Veteran's Day Challenge This Veterans' Day, remember or honor a veteran in your life by volunteering to improve access and search for historic accounts of veterans who served and sacrificed. Give back by transcribing our "Disabled But Not Forgotten" project, the papers of advocate for disabled Civil War veterans William Oland Bourne (1819-1901). Bourne’s left-hand penmanship competitions […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Election Night with Letters to Lincoln November 6, 2018
    Looking for a positive political endeavor this Election Night? Cast your vote for the Letters to Lincoln Election challenge! Our goal is transcription of all 646 pages of the "1858-1859 Presidential Nomination" Abraham Lincoln Papers project at crowd.loc.gov tonight -- Tuesday, November 6th! With 8 hours to go, 400+ pages remain open for editing!  Can we […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Stumping for Lincoln November 2, 2018
    We’re launching our next Letters to Lincoln milestone in honor of Election Day! Our first milestone was transcribing the first three Campaign projects by November 1, covering the years 1830-1857. We’ve nearly reached that goal! So our next challenge to you is transcribing and reviewing all 646 pages in the "1858-1859 Presidential Nomination" project by […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: One week in, one day more October 31, 2018
    Thank you for your hard work transcribing, tagging, and exploring the stories of the Civil War era, a baseball great, and activists for women's and African Americans' rights. We're just one week on from the launch of crowd.loc.gov, but you've accomplished a lot!  651 pages completed 2,739 pages submitted for review We challenged you to complete […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Join The crowd! October 24, 2018
    Welcome to a new way to volunteer with the Library of Congress! Join us to explore, transcribe, and tag Library of Congress digital collections to make documents accessible to all. Up For A Challenge Unsure where to start? Join our Letters to Lincoln Challenge which aims to transcribe 10,000+ letters and other documents of the […]
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