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Archive: October 2020 (4 Posts)

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Nominations sought for the U.S. Federal Government Domain End of Term 2020 Web Archive

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

This is a guest blog post by Abbie Grotke, Assistant Head, Digital Content Management Section You may have noticed that it is presidential election season in the United States, which means it’s also time for web archivists to gather once again to archive United States Federal Government websites during the end of the presidential term. …

Posted in: Guest Posts, Web Archiving

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Analyzing the Born-Digital Archive

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

Kathleen O'Neill is a 2020 Staff Innovator with LC Labs and a Senior Archivist in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. In this post, she discusses her analysis of the various file formats in the Manuscript Division's born-digital holdings.

Posted in: Content Matters Interview, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Formats, Guest Posts, Inside the Library, Open Research, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure

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Volunteer Vignette: Transcribe without fear, don’t be intimidated!

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

In today’s post, Sam Schireson interviews a By the People volunteer who has gone above and beyond! By the People is a crowdsourced transcription program launched in 2018 at the Library of Congress. Volunteer-created transcriptions are used to make digitized collections searchable and discoverable on loc.gov. In this interview we hear from Henry in Virginia who has been …

Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Interviews