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Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
September newsletter from LC Labs, highlighting opportunities with the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative.
Posted in: Digital Content, digital scholarship, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Digital Projects Coordinator in Digital Collections Management and Services at the Library of Congress and Bertram Lyons, Partner and Managing Director for Software at AVP. Note: This is the last in a series of updates from the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Audio-Visual working group. See That’s …
Posted in: FADGI, Formats, Guest Posts, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
Today’s guest post is from Tracee Haupt, a Digital Collection Specialist in the Digital Content Management section at the Library of Congress. On the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, I asked four individuals who were part of the creation of the September 11, 2001 Web Archive to reflect on their experience documenting …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Interviews, Web Archiving
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
This is the second in a series of updates from the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Audio-Visual working group. See That’s Our Cue! Updates for the FADGI Embedded Metadata Guidelines and BWF MetaEdit for the Cue Chunk in Broadcast Wave Files for the first installment. This post is co-authored by Kate Murray, Digital Projects …
Posted in: FADGI, Formats, Guest Posts
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
This is guest post, the first in a series of updates about the recent work of the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Audio-Visual working group, is co-authored by Kate Murray, Digital Projects Coordinator in Digital Collections Management and Services, audiovisual archivist and technologist Dave Rice, and Jérôme Martinez, Founder and President of MediaArea.net. The …
Posted in: Digital Preservation, FADGI, Formats, Guest Posts, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
For thirty years the Library of Congress has offered undergraduate and graduate students from across the country the opportunity to work on projects focused on expanding access to and use of the Library’s collections. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Junior Fellows program continued to be entirely virtual in 2021. The Digital Content …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Caitlin Haynes, the Program Coordinator for the Smithsonian Transcription Center in Washington, D.C. You can read Caitlin’s original post from the Smithsonian here.* During the month of August 2021, we teamed up with the community managers and volunteers at By the People, the Library of Congress’s crowdsourced transcription program, to focus …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Crowdsourcing, Guest Posts, Outreach and Events