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Piloting Digital Scholarship with the John W. Kluge Center and LC Labs

Posted by: Meghan Ferriter

This is a guest post from 2018 Library of Congress Labs team Junior Fellow Eileen Jakeway that discusses her work on a collaborative Digital Scholarship pilot with the John W. Kluge Center.   In her address at the 2018 Junior Fellows Program closing ceremony this August, Manuscript Division Junior Fellow Patrice Green said that she learned a …

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More Web Archives, Less Process

Posted by: Aly DesRochers

This is a guest post by Grace Thomas, a Digital Collections Specialist for the Library of Congress Web Archiving Team. The Library of Congress Digital Content Management Section is excited to announce the release of 4,240 new web archives across 43 event and thematic collections on loc.gov, our largest single release of web archives to …

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Inside, Inside Baseball: A Look at the Construction of the Dataset Featuring the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Library of Congress Digital Collections

Posted by: Abbey Potter

This is a guest blog post by visiting scholar archivist Julia Hickey who is on a professional development assignment from the Defense Media Activity to the Library of Congress Labs team. Julia has been helping us prepare for and build out a visualization of collection data for our Inside Baseball event. This post was also …

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Linking chatbots to collections for place-based storytelling

Posted by: Meghan Ferriter

The following is a guest post from Library of Congress Labs Innovation Intern, Charlie Moffett. In the course of crafting data-driven narratives with digital collections, he created @govislandbot and an open-source mapping tutorial. Below he shares his processes, some of the challenges he encountered, along with the code. I started my remote internship with LC Labs …

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Building a Southern Mosaic

Posted by: Meghan Ferriter

The following is a guest post from Innovation Intern Aditya Jain on his Southern Mosaic visualization. Two weeks into my LC Labs Innovation internship, I came across Rachel I. Howard’s essay Southern Mosaic on the Library of Congress website. The essay describes the story of John and Ruby Lomax, a husband and wife who made …

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IIIF at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Abbey Potter

The Library of Congress and LC Labs are delighted to co-host the 2018 International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Conference with the Smithsonian Institution and the Folger Shakespeare Library. The event will be held May 21-25 in Washington, DC. In preparation for the event, we sat down with Krisztina Thatcher, a senior software developer at the …

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Librarians learn about personal archiving at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Meghan Ferriter

On April 16th and 17th, National Digital Initiatives in partnership with DC Public Library hosted the Memory Lab Network Bootcamp at the Library of Congress. The Memory Lab Network – a cohort of 7 urban, rural, and tribal library systems – will build digitization stations and teach classes through an IMLS grant to support personal …