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Archive: April 2019 (3 Posts)

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Resilience in the Commons: Acquiring and Preserving Open Access Latin American Monographs

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

Today’s guest post is from Charlotte Kostelic, a Digital Collections Specialist within the Digital Content Management Section of the Library of Congress. The move toward publishing research through open publishing models is growing internationally, but in Latin America, Open Access (OA) publishing is growing at a faster rate than elsewhere. Recent studies suggest 51-95% of …

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Connections in Sound: Irish traditional music at AFC

Posted by: Meghan Ferriter

An introduction to the project "Connections In Sound" by Patrick Egan. This post outlines progress that has been made in the project to date, data sets and descriptions of how to read these data sets. Two visualizations are provided for users to browse ongoing developments in Patrick's work, and a number of links are provided for users to utilize the data from the research.

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BagIt at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Meghan Ferriter

The BagIt File Packaging Format celebrates its tenth anniversary and becoming an IETF 1.0 specification. This post reflects on the development of BagIt and the ways the Library supports multiple tools to help content creators, donors, and service providers package digital content in BagIt structure.