LC Labs Letter: March 2022
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
March 2022 newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital scholarship, Partners and Collaboration
Archive: March 2022 (5 Posts)
Performing Arts in the Coronavirus Web Archive: Part 2
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
This post was originally written by Melissa Wertheimer, a Music Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress, for In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog. In Part 1 of this series, I walked readers through Coronavirus Web Archive items within the theme of financial relief efforts in the performing arts. This second post focuses on medical and public health initiatives specific to …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration, Web Archiving
What’s new online at the Library of Congress – Spring 2022
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’ digital collections? The Signal will now be sharing out semi-regularly about new additions to publicly-available digital collections and we can’t wait to show off all the hard work from our colleagues from across the Library. Read on for a sample of what’s been added …
Posted in: New on loc.gov
Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud: Expert Researchers Share Their Outcomes
Posted by: Olivia Dorsey
LC Labs’ Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) initiative explores pathways for the Library to deliver its digital collections at scale, using a cloud computing environment. You can read more in previous posts about the initiative. Earlier this year, LC Labs worked with three research fellows in digital history, digital art history, and software librarianship …
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities
Performing Arts in the Coronavirus Web Archive: Part 1
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
This post was originally written by Melissa Wertheimer, a Music Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress, for In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog. In June 2020, I was appointed to the Library’s interdisciplinary Coronavirus Web Archive project team to select social and cultural content. The Coronavirus Web Archive’s official landing page and press release came out on #WebArchiveWednesday, …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Web Archiving