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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
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 …
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Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
May's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Access, Open Data, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
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
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
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
LC LABS LETTER A Monthly Roundup of News and Thoughts from the Library of Congress Labs Team Editor’s Note As it did for many people across the country and all over the world, the month of March brought new ways of working and communicating and challenging, complex circumstances for the LC Labs team. We found …
Posted in: Computational Research, Crowdsourcing, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Data, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Videos and Podcasts
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The following is a guest post by Innovator in Residence Brian Foo, creator of Citizen DJ. The Citizen DJ project invites the public to make music using the free-to-use audio and video collections from the Library of Congress. The project will feature online tools for exploring and remixing tens of thousands of sounds from a variety of collections ranging from music to government film to oral histories.
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, At the Museum, Education and Training, Innovator in Residence, Open Access, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Videos and Podcasts
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
This is a guest post by Jennifer “JJ” Harbster, Head of the Science Reference Section in the Library’s Science, Technology and Business Division. She had her first taste of web archiving with the Internet Archive’s collaborative project documenting Hurricane Katrina and went on to lead the Science Blogs Web Archive. On April 22, 2020 we …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Projects like Newspaper Navigator are busy unlocking even more digital content for members of the public to access from home. On May 7th at 2pm EST, Innovator in Residence Ben Lee will host a virtual data jam to experiment and play with thousands of images—including maps, advertisements, comics, and more!—from historical newspapers dating to the 1800s. In this post, Ben discusses his aspirations for engaging the American public with the millions of images he extracted from Chronicling America.
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Research, Crowdsourcing, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Open Data