The By the People crowdsourced transcription program will host a virtual orientation webinar on Thursday, April 9, from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT. Registration is required. During the orientation webinar, By the People Community Managers will cover the basics of the transcription lifecycle and guidelines for how to transcribe and review - and more! Click through to learn more about registration,
Vrecord is open source video capture software used by video preservation labs across the nation, with one of its most notable features being the ability to natively capture and encode FFV1 Matroska files. Until recently, the NAVCC Video Lab has not been able to capture all tapes into FFV1 Matroska due to some of vrecord’s limitations. This blog post describes a number of FADGI funded updates to vrecord which expanded the tool’s ability to digitize various video tape formats from the Library of Congress' collection.
In our Spring 2026 edition of "What’s New Online at the Library of Congress," we share updates to the Library's digital collections, web archives, datasets, and more. Click through to read all about it!
The ‘By the People’ crowdsourced transcription program recently turned 7. We’re celebrating this anniversary by marking another major occasion: our volunteers have officially completed over one million transcriptions! Click through to learn more about what the program has planned as we enter another exciting year.
In this interview, David Neil discusses his experience working as a User Experience Designer in Design and Development at the Library of Congress. He shares behind-the-scenes insights about some favorite Library products, advice for practitioners, reflections on the past and future of technology, and his own near-term plans as he retires.
As a 2025 Junior Fellow, Maggie Jones helped build the United States Indigenous Government Websites Web Archive with the guidance of her mentor, Giselle Aviles. In this interview, they describe how the collection developed from a list of over 500 tribes and what that process taught them about web archiving. They also share examples of how Indigenous government websites often extend beyond administrative functions to document culture, history, language, and community life.
The Library of Congress is seeking our next Innovator in Residence to start in September 2026! We will fund an individual up to $90,000 per year, for a maximum of two years, to create a transformative digital work with Library of Congress collections for the American people and to serve as an ambassador for the Library. This is a mostly remote residency experience …
