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Archive: June 2020 (3 Posts)

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Selected Datasets: A New Library of Congress Collection

Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez

Friends, data wranglers, lend me your ears; The Library of Congress’ Selected Datasets Collection is now live! You can now download datasets of the Simple English Wikipedia, the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, sports economic data, half a million emails from Enron, and urban soil lead abatement from this online collection. This initial set of …

Posted in: Digital Content

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Experimenting with speech-to-text and collections at the Library

Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal

This guest blog post is shared by Chris Adams, Solutions Architect in the Office of the Chief Information Officer/IT Design & Development Directorate, and Julia Kim, Digital Projects Coordinator at the National Library for the Blind and Print Disabled at the Library of Congress, formerly the Digital Assets Specialist at the American Folklife Center, supporting …

Posted in: Digital Content

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Making a valuable resource even better: the Recommended Formats Statement and RFS 2.0

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

Today’s guest post is from Jesse Johnston (Sr. Research Development Officer Office of Research, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan), Kate Murray (Digital Projects Coordinator, Digital Collections Management & Services Division), Marcus Nappier (Digital Collections Specialist, Digital Content Management Section), and Ted Westervelt, Chief, US/Anglo Division. It has become ever more …

Posted in: Formats, Guest Posts