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Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s blog post is an interview with Genevieve Havemeyer-King of the Digital Services Directorate here at the Library of Congress. You can read other interviews with digital collections staff here. Carlyn: Hi Gen, could you tell us a bit about what you do in the Digital Services Directorate? How would you explain your job to …
Posted in: Interviews
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews a By the People volunteer, Justin Kern, who serves as the Division Communications Director for the American Red Cross. 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 more accessible and discoverable on loc.gov. Abby: How did you hear about By …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Interviews
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’s digital collections? The Signal shares updates on new additions to our digital collections and we love showing off all the hard work of our colleagues from across the Library. Read on for a sample of what’s been added recently and some of our favorite highlights. …
Posted in: New on loc.gov
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
Earlier this year, the Library of Congress and our web harvest vendor MirrorWeb presented research on website archivability at the 2024 Web Archiving Conference at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. The presentation was part of a panel called “Can we capture this?’: Assessing Website Archivability Beyond Trial and Error,” which was moderated by Martin Klein (Pacific …
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Interviews, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Web Archiving
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
This blog post was guest-authored by Rachel Trent, Senior Digital Collections Data Librarian. For nearly twenty-five years, the Library of Congress has been archiving campaign websites for Presidential, Congressional, and gubernatorial elections. Back in 2022, we released a dataset of index files for the United States Elections Web Archive, and we are happy to announce …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Open Data, Web Archiving
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
This post is the most recent in a series about file format research for the Sustainability of Digital Formats site at the Library of Congress, including several new format descriptions as well as community collaborations.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure