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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...
View ArticleNew Lincoln pages and your transcriptions on loc.gov
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...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: The Latest
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...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: The Latest
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...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress Women's History Month and a quick...
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...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Help us improve!
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:...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress Update: Women's History Month,...
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...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress Update
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...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest
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...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: "Whitman at 200"
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...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: The Latest
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...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest
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...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest
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...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest
Hi! We have a lot of exciting things going on this week! We're celebrating your achievements on the "Civil War Soldiers: Disabled but not disheartened" 500-page review challenge for Memorial Day....
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest
"Suffrage: Women Fight For the Vote" Today we're releasing the papers of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Anna E. Dickinson for you to transcribe and review, in...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest
Suffrage marches on: join in! In June we launched four new Campaigns to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage. We also introduced new "Topic" functionality to allow us to group materials...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest
Hi! Have you tried the new By the People Activity Prototype? It allows you to find pages to work on in a different way. You only have until July 28th to check it out, so give it a whirl today. Then...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest
Hello, We have a few new things for you to try, and we really need your feedback on one of them. Let us know what you think! Only a few more days to try the Activity Prototype! Testing ends July...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Summer Suffrage Challenge
1,000 pages for 100 years A new challenge has arrived! Can you help us complete 1,000 pages this week (August 12-19) from "Suffrage: Women Fight for the Vote"? Volunteer review is the crucial...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: The Latest
Summer Suffrage Review Challenge Update We did it! As usual, you've put in a cracking performance! You completed our 1,000 page Summer Suffrage Review Challenge yesterday, and we still have 4 days to...
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