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RSS Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress – Recent Updates

  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest May 22, 2019
    We're on a roll Great work everyone! Collectively, volunteers have reviewed 145 pages out of the 500 we've challenged you to tackle between May 20th and May 28th. That's great progress in 3 days! Not to mention some folks have been transcribing pages too! There are only 17 pages not started, down from 273 a […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest May 20, 2019
    A 500 page review Challenge for Memorial Day This week, in the run up to Memorial Day, we challenge you to #MakeItMeaningful, by helping us review 500 pages from the “Civil War Soldiers: Disabled but not disheartened” campaign. This campaign features entries from the left-handed penmanship competition created by a reformer, poet, editor, and clergyman named William Oland […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: The Latest May 8, 2019
    Hello one and all,  We have a few interesting updates and opportunities for you to explore and enjoy this month.  More Letters to Lincoln By the People volunteers have transcribed 26,585 letters and completed (a.k.a reviewed) 4,662 of Lincoln pages in just over six months. Many of your transcriptions are published on loc.gov, and more will […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: "Whitman at 200" April 23, 2019
    Join early celebrations of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday with a Poetry Month Party! By the People launches our first new campaign tomorrow, April 24, with selections from his writings. The Library of Congress holds the world’s largest Whitman manuscript collection. “Walt Whitman at 200” will present several thousand pages of his writings, including poetry from […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest April 16, 2019
    New Material: Walt Whitman Campaign On April 24, 2019 at 4pm Eastern time, you can take part in a virtual transcribathon of Walt Whitman materials from the Library of Congress collections. We're releasing new material to celebrate National Poetry month, Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, and the half-birthday of By the People! The Whitman materials will […]
  • Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress Update April 3, 2019
    Hello By the People people! We have some fun updates for you this week! Baseball news, improved how-to instructions, an invitation to join in the conversation, and some pretty impressive numbers. Read on! It's Outta here! A Branch Rickey home run Volunteers transcribed all 1,926 Branch Rickey baseball scouting reports in just four months! In March we […]
  • 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.  […]
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