Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. By the People (Program), compiler. software, multimedia Data sets. lcgft eng This dataset is an export of transcriptions for 2,462 images from the James A. Garfield Papers digital collection created by volunteers participating in the Library of Congress crowdsourcing program By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov) campaign James A. Garfield Diary: “His Confidential Friend.” It contains text created by volunteers through a transcription and review process, volunteer-created tags, digital collections metadata, and metadata representing the arrangement of the items in the By the People platform, Concordia. The dataset includes transcriptions and data generated from the pages in the By the People campaign James A. Garfield Diary: “His Confidential Friend” (https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/garfield/). The campaign consisted of a selection of then-available online images of digitized content from the James A. Garfield Papers (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000082). The transcription campaign only included the Diaries series of the collection. Other series in the collection are transcribed in other By the People campaigns. The “Diaries, 1848-1881,” series consists of multiple volumes of a personal diary kept by Garfield from the ages of seventeen to forty-nine, ending when he was shot by an assassin on July 1, 1881. Garfield's diary entries reflect his thoughts and personality, his interests, accomplishments and defeats, and include comments on people, events, life, and society. See the James A. Garfield Papers digital collection (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000082) for all available online items for this collection, as well as contextual information, such as an index to the collection. This dataset includes: 2023527890.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file. garfield_2024-05-09.csv - a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image URL, the volunteer-created transcriptions, and volunteer-created tags. This .CSV is the direct export of the James A. Garfield Diary: “His Confidential Friend” campaign. Note: This dataset may contain UNICODE characters or lengthy transcriptions which may display incorrectly in some spreadsheet editors. "Dataset created 2024-05-09."--README file. Title from README file. Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. Garfield family. Presidents--United States--Election--1876. https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2023527890 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000082 https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/garfield/ The text in this dataset was created by volunteers and can be used in many different ways. The dataset is in the Public Domain. Public Domain Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal Please consult the digital collection at https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-a-garfield-papers/about-this-collection/rights-and-access/ for more information on rights and access restrictions of the source collection.