LC Labs Letter: November 2019
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
November 2019 monthly roundup of news and thoughts from the LC Labs Team, also available as a newsletter.
Posted in: Digital Content
Archive: November 2019 (6 Posts)
Introducing the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Project
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the LC Labs team will pilot ways to combine cutting edge technology and the collections of the largest library in the world, to support creative new uses of collections. This project will explore service models to support researchers accessing Library of Congress collections in the cloud, with findings shared throughout the 2 year project.
Posted in: Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital scholarship, Open Data, Web Archiving
In the Library’s Web Archives: 1,000 U.S. Government PowerPoint Slide Decks
Posted by: Trevor Owens
The Digital Content Management section has been working to extract and make available sets of files from the Library’s significant Web Archives holdings. The outcome of the project is a series of web archive file datasets, each containing 1,000 files of related media types selected from .gov domains. You can read more about this series …
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, Web Archiving
Introducing Ben and Brian, the Library’s new Innovators in Residence!
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Introducing our 2019 Innovators in Residence Brian Foo and Ben Lee. Learn more about their backgrounds and experience, as well as what they plan to accomplish during their residencies.
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Research, Innovator in Residence, Open Data
What can you find in 1.7 million phone book images?
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
The Digital Content Management Section (DCM) is excited to announce the release of over 1.7 million images scanned from the Library of Congress U.S. Telephone Directory Collection. These images originate from thousands of reels of black and white microfilm held in the Main Reading Room – now available on the Library’s website. The process for getting …
Posted in: Digital Content
Expanding Digital Collecting at the Library
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
Discussion of the progress toward the goals of the five year plan described in Collecting Digital Content at the Library of Congress, with emphasis on the six objectives of the framework and a list of notable accomplishments in FY2019.
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Open Access