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Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
The explosion of interest surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) will clearly have a tremendous impact on the world of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM). The Library of Congress is exploring how certain AI use cases can help expand access to our collection, enhance services for users, and improve efficiency. We are still in the early …
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Research, Digital Content
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
Today’s guest post is from Abby Shelton, a Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section and a Community Manager for the By the People crowdsourced transcription program. By the People volunteers completed over 9,000 pages this summer to meet our summer suffrage challenge! Our aim was to finish reviewing transcriptions for the National American …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Guest Posts
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
Natalie Coté and Amy Snyder are 2022 Junior Fellows in the Digital Collections Management and Services Division (DCMS) working under the mentorship of Digital Collections Specialist, Marcus Nappier. DIRSA (Distribuidora Internacional De Revistas S.A.) is a collection of Latin American journals purchased by the Library that DCM has made accessible in Stacks. Could you share …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
Amy Snyder and Natalie Coté are 2022 Junior Fellows in the Digital Collections Management and Services Division (DCMS) working under the mentorship of Digital Collections Specialist, Marcus Nappier. DIRSA (Distribuidora Internacional De Revistas S.A.) is a collection of Latin American journals purchased by the Library that DCM has made accessible in Stacks. Could you share …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
Dan Hockstein and Mari Allison are 2022 Junior Fellows in the Digital Collections Management and Services Division (DCMS) working under the mentorship of Kate Murray. Over the course of our Junior Fellowship this summer, we have focused on a variety of streams of work around the Library of Congress’ Sustainability of Digital Formats website. The …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
This blog post was co-authored by Camille Salas (Assistant Head, Digital Content Management Section), Kristy Darby (Digital Collections Specialist, Digital Content Management Section), and Marcus Nappier (Digital Collections Specialist, Digital Content Management Section). On October 26, 2020, Catalina Gomez of the Latin American, Caribbean & European Division, Anne Holmes (formerly of the Literary Initiatives Division), …
Posted in: Digital Content
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
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
For thirty years the Library of Congress has offered undergraduate and graduate students from across the country the opportunity to work on projects focused on expanding access to and use of the Library’s collections. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Junior Fellows program continued to be entirely virtual in 2021. The Digital Content …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
For thirty years the Library of Congress has offered undergraduate and graduate students from across the country the opportunity to work on projects focused on expanding access to and use of the Library’s collections. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Junior Fellows program continued to be entirely virtual in 2021. The Digital Content …
Posted in: Digital Content