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Archive: May 2020 (2 Posts)

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LC Maps for Robots

Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal

The following is a repost from the blog Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress. The author is Rachel Trent, Digital Collections and Automation Coordinator in the Geography and Maps Division. Interested in bulk downloading maps from the Library of Congress’s online collections? Need a corpus of historical map images to build a training dataset …

Posted in: Digital Content

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Innovator Ben Lee and LC Labs Host “Data Jam” with 100 Million Historic Newspaper Images

Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal

A gallery of historic moustaches, a wall of 12,000 photos, a collage of First World War-era “damn the Kaiser” cartoons, and more were on display May 7, when 135 people attended a virtual “data jam” to dig into a massive new collection of historic newspaper images.  LC Labs hosted the event to showcase Library of …

Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Innovator in Residence, Outreach and Events