Become a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer and help make historical documents and biodiversity data more accessible.
Join 14,674 "volunpeers" to add to the 515,472 pages of field notes, diaries, ledgers, logbooks, currency proof sheets, photo albums, manuscripts, and biodiversity specimens labels that have already been collaboratively transcribed and reviewed since June 2013.
Instructions for how to get started can be found here: https://transcription.si.edu/instructions Once you've familiarized yourself with how this project works, click here to get started: https://transcription.si.edu/browse?filter=all&sort=notdone
Don't forget to Respond to this Need, so you can track your service hours. You will need to send either copies of your User History Report or screenshots of your online work or submission acceptance notices to communityengagement@southalabama.edu in order for us to be able to verify your hours. Please track and submit the actual amount of time spent volunteering.
As an additional reminder, because the process for getting started is linked above, you won't receive a follow-up e-mail from the hosting agency when you Respond to this Need.
