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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
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
October's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Research, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
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
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
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Brian Foo reflects on the feedback from user testing he incorporated into the final design of Citizen DJ.
Posted in: At the Museum, Computational Research, Digital Content, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Guest Posts, Open Access, Open Data, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
September's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Computational Research, Crowdsourcing, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Formats, Inside the Library, Open Access, Open Data, Open Research, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
By the People at the National Book Festival Tomorrow, Friday 9/25, marks the beginning of the 20th Library of Congress National Book Festival! Representatives from across the Library will be hosting festival-goers via virtual booths, where visitors can connect with their favorite Library programs and collections. A member of the By the People team will be …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
On September 15, 2020, the Library of Congress announced the release of Newspaper Navigator, an experimental web application which makes 1.5 million photographs from the dataset from Chronicling America available to the public to explore for the first time. Read more about the design and features of the project below or jump straight to the newly launched application at https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/search !
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, At the Museum, Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Access, Open Data, Open Research, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
This post was originally featured on the Minerva's Kaleidoscope blog for kids and families. We're excited and grateful to be able to re-share about this opportunity to experience Citizen DJ at the virtual National Book Festival next week!
Posted in: Content Matters Interview, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Education and Training, Open Access, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration