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Category: Digital Scholarship and Data

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The Project: Reading a Sanborn Map at the Library part (a)

Posted by: Nancy Lovas

This is the third post in a series addressing digital scholarship in business and economic history related to Library of Congress collections. Read the first post and the second post. I have been making steady, if slow, progress on the next steps I outlined in my last post. identifying a place to focus on which will …

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Endangered Business Data

Posted by: Nancy Lovas

What is endangered business data? It can probably mean a lot of things, but what comes to my mind first is this: business information and data sets that are inaccessible, nonexistent, or in danger of becoming so. For example, there could be gaps in coverage, print sets lost, microform copies decomposing or unreadable without proper …

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The Project: Mapping Business History with LC Collections

Posted by: Nancy Lovas

This is the second post in a series addressing digital scholarship in business and economic history related to Library of Congress collections. Read the first post here. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to begin tackling the many questions I posed in my first post. I read blogs (The Signal‘s excellent ”Digital Scholarship Resource …

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Business ‘Collections as Data’?

Posted by: Nancy Lovas

In July 2017, I attended the second Collections as Data event hosted by National Digital Initiatives/LC Labs at the Library of Congress. The event featured speakers who are using digital collections and data to work in their communities. Kate Zwaard gave an opening talk that deftly describes “computation applied to library collections when computers were people …