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Archive: January 2018 (2 Posts)

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January Innovator-in-Residence Update: Experiments with Jer Thorp

Posted by: Meghan Ferriter

We’ve been delighted to have Library of Congress Innovator-in-Residence Jer Thorp with us since October. During the first three months of his residency he has connected with staff, visited collections, and explored forms of data to make better sense the inner workings of the Library. Jer has been weaving together those threads with experiments and …

Posted in: Computational Research, Innovator in Residence, Partners and Collaboration, Videos and Podcasts

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From Code to Colors: Working with the loc.gov JSON API

Posted by: Meghan Ferriter

The following is a guest post by Laura Wrubel, software development librarian with George Washington University Libraries, who has joined the Library of Congress Labs team during her research leave. The Library of Congress website has an API ( “application programming interface”) which delivers the content for each web page. What’s kind of exciting is …

Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital scholarship