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Archive: June 2017 (2 Posts)

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Innovate, Integrate, and Legislate: Announcing an App Challenge

Posted by: Abbey Potter

Updated 10/19/17: The Congressional Data Challenge is now available! Below is the blog post with more information. Announcing the Library of Congress Congressional Data Challenge This is a guest post from John Pull, Communications Officer of the Office of the Chief Information Officer. This morning, on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, Library of Congress Chief Information …

Posted in: Digital Content

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Hack-to-Learn at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Jaime Mears

When hosting workshops, such as Software Carpentry, or events, such as Collections As Data, our National Digital Initiatives team made a discovery—there is an appetite among librarians for hands-on computational experience. That’s why we created an inclusive hackathon, or a “hack-to-learn,” taking advantage of the skills librarians already have and paring them with programmers to …

Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital scholarship, Education and Training, NDI, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration