Datasets as Primary Sources, Part II
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Part 2 of an ongoing occasional series about using datasets as primary sources.
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
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Datasets as Primary Sources: An Archaeological Dig into Our Collective Brains, Part 1
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
In this guest post, Educator Fellow Peter DeCraene reflects on how teachers can make use of data sets in the classroom.
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Digital Content, Education and Training
Reflecting On a Year of Selected Datasets
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
Introduction The Selected Datasets Collection was publicly launched June 2020 as part of the Library’s ongoing efforts to support emerging data-driven styles of research. Since then, our initial offering of twenty datasets has grown to nearly 200 unique items, and we’ve continued to refine the technical workflows by which content is prepared and delivered to …
Posted in: Data Librarianship, Digital Content, Open Data, Web Archiving
Selected Datasets: A New Library of Congress Collection
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
Friends, data wranglers, lend me your ears; The Library of Congress’ Selected Datasets Collection is now live! You can now download datasets of the Simple English Wikipedia, the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, sports economic data, half a million emails from Enron, and urban soil lead abatement from this online collection. This initial set of …
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The Magnificent Seven: Looking Back on a Year of Exploring the Web Archives Datasets
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
It has been just over a year since we kicked off a deep dive into the Library of Congress Web Archives on the Signal! Now at over 2 petabytes, the web archives are a complex aggregation of interrelated web objects that make up the internet as we know it (images, text, code, audio, video, etc.). …
Posted in: Digital Content
What’s new online at the Library of Congress – September 2023
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’ 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 …
Posted in: New on loc.gov
The Web Archiving Team Answers Questions About the Web Archives
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
Have you ever wondered what exactly is web archiving? How the Library select which websites to preserve? Or how you would find and search the web archives? The Web Archiving Team’s Senior Digital Collection Specialists gathered to answer these questions and more in a live webinar during the Preservation Directorate’s celebration of Preservation Week. If …
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Web Archiving
LC Labs Letter: Summer Recap
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Summer recap of activities undertaken by the LC Labs team.
Posted in: API, Digital Content, digital humanities, Labs Letter
What’s new online at the Library of Congress – July 2023
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’ 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 …
Posted in: New on loc.gov