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Transforming Days into Seconds: An Interview with Tori Culler

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

Today’s blog post is an interview with Tori Culler of the Digital Services Directorate here at the Library of Congress. You can read other interviews with digital collections staff here. Carlyn: Hi Tori, could you tell us a bit about what you do in the Digital Services Directorate? How would you explain your job to …

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Could Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci

Posted by: Isabel Brador

Catalog records are key to storing and finding digital library materials. As the volume of digital materials continues to grow rapidly, the Library of Congress is exploring whether AI can help catalogers by automating the generation of metadata. AI could provide an opportunity to speed up description workflows. Yet there are numerous machine learning (ML) …

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Updated FADGI Resource: Significant Properties for Digital Video

Posted by: Liz Holdzkom

The Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Audiovisual Working Group has released a revised version of its popular resource, Significant Properties for Digital Video. This updated resource dives deeper into the area of significant properties for digital video to provide definitions for common terms and how changes in these typical criteria would impact the digital video content, technical parameters and display.

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What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: October 2024

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. …

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Transcribe Theodore Roosevelt’s Papers Online at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

October 27th marks Theodore Roosevelt’s 166th birthday and we’re hoping you can help us celebrate the occasion! Yesterday, the By the People crowdsourced transcription program released over 20,000 new pages of TR’s papers into crowd.loc.gov. We’re calling on all #TedHeads (our favorite TR fans) to join us in transcribing these materials to make the Library’s …

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Breaking Down Barriers to Access: An Interview with Liz Caringola

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

Today’s blog post is an interview with Liz Caringola of the Digital Services Directorate here at the Library of Congress. You can read other interviews with digital collections staff here. Carlyn: Hi Liz, could you tell us a bit about what you do in the Digital Services Directorate? How would you explain your job to …

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What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: August 2024

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. …

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Nominations sought for the 2024-2025 U.S. Federal Government Domain End of Term Web Archive

Posted by: Tracee Haupt

Today’s guest post is from Abbie Grotke, Head of the Web Archiving Section. If you look back in The Signal archives, you’ll see that we post every four years about a collaborative project that the Library of Congress is involved in to archive United States government websites during the end of presidential terms. This project, called …