If you have some extra time on your hands during the COVID-19 pandemic, you can help make history more accessible. LOS ANGELES - Just finished watching “The Wire” for the umpteenth time?
Listened through each and every one of your friends’ Spotify playlists? If you’re looking for a new way to keep your mind and fingers moving amid the COVID-19 pandemic, consider transcribing documents for the Smithsonian.
The esteemed culture and history organization has issued an ongoing call for digital volunteers to lend their efforts in transcribing noteworthy historical documents.
Volunteers can help transcribe anything from specimen logs from influential botanists to notebook entries from World War II POWs and interviews from midcentury artists.