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A screenshot of an Anywhere Adventures travel log. The log is a collage of photos of Vivian at a ship wharf, illustrations of the wharf and text.

Anywhere Adventures is Hitting the Road!

Posted by: Isabel Brador

We’re on the hunt for two U.S. communities to include in Vivian Li’s Innovator in Residence Project, Anywhere Adventures!  Visitors to the mobile experience are currently able to explore three American communities, Seattle, Chicago, and Southeastern Wyoming, through items from the Library’s digital collections and learn about the stories, people, and events that shaped everyday life in these places.     With the site, visitors can do a …

Posted in: Innovator in Residence

A collaged image created by Vivian Li, the Library's 20205 Innovator in Residence. The words, "Anywhere Adventures" float a against a blue sky. There are Library images collages around the border of the image. Vivian stands on the side of a residential street looking up at the sky.

Anywhere Adventures is Live!

Posted by: Isabel Brador

This post is the third in a series about the Library’s 2025 Innovator in Residence, Vivian Li, and her project Anywhere Adventures. Following the selection of three communities, and a visit to the Library for research, the mobile experience has now officially launched!   The 2025 Innovator in Residence project, Anywhere Adventures, has officially launched!   The …

Posted in: Digital Content

A screen grab depicting the user stories where C2PA standards could be useful. Text reads, "User Stories Organized by Content Lifecycle Model Steps 1. Content and Records Creation 1.1 How can C2PA document tools, including AI tools, used for descriptive metadata generation? 1.2 How can C2PA identify and potentially limit access to datasets for AI model training based on if the dataset content was human-created, AI created or a mix of both? 1.3 How can C2PA identify and potentially limit access to content for AI model training based on Copyright status? 1.4 How can C2PA be used to document the creation process, including digital tools, for new content to establish the baseline provenance data? 1.5 How can C2PA be leveraged to establish the provenance of open access publications governed by CC BY 4.o license variations? 1.6 How can C2PA be incorporated into audio digitization preservation processes to document provenance and continuity? 2. Maintenance and Use 2.1 How can C2PA be used to document stewardship of specific instances of content? 2.2 What role can C2PA play in documenting image accuracy of historical maps? 3. Accessioning and Processing 3.1 How can C2PA be leveraged in the acquisition process if incoming content already has C2PA? 3.2 What role can C2PA play for documenting images of artifacts for determining origination? 4. Preservation 4.1 How can C2PA enable provenance chains for any non-C2PA files? 4.2 How can C2PA relate or document derivative files with their authentic original or preservation/access copies of the same content item? 5. Access 5.1 How can C2PA be applied to “certify” the accuracy and completeness of copies of records generated for online access and in response to research requests? 5.2 How can C2PA be used to ensure the authenticity of redacted records? "

New Community of Practice for Exploring Content Provenance and Authenticity in the Age of AI

Posted by: Isabel Brador

Today’s post is from Abbey Potter and Isabel Brador of the Digital Strategy Directorate and Kate Murray of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division here at the Library of Congress. Since January 2025, a new Library of Congress working group has been exploring ways to bring responsible AI together with digital preservation through an …

Posted in: Artificial Intelligence

Two women, one with a camera, lean over a large book.

Innovator in Residence, Vivian Li, Visits the Library

Posted by: Isabel Brador

This blog post is co-authored by Isabel Brador and Sahar Kazmi. Vivian Li, the Library’s 2025 Innovator in Residence, spent several days learning from Library staff and exploring the collections during a visit to the Library in May.  Her trip followed the selection of Seattle, Southeastern Wyoming, and Chicago as the three locations for “Anywhere …

Posted in: Guest Posts, Innovator in Residence

Collage illustration by Vivian Li depicting an image of a black and white cityscape with three color images superimposed: a cowboy riding a horse, a pyramid shaped monument, and an enormous red sculpture.

Announcing Anywhere Adventures Locations

Posted by: Isabel Brador

The following is a guest post by 2025 Innovator in Residence Vivian Li, an illustrator, comics artist and web developer from Macomb, Illinois, who currently lives in Seattle. This is the second blog post in a series following Vivian’s project, Anywhere Adventures. Check out the LC Labs  Anywhere Adventures experiment page to learn more about the …

Posted in: Digital Content

Screenshot of the Newspaper Navigator homepage.

Help Us Say Farewell to Newspaper Navigator!

Posted by: Isabel Brador

The Library will retire the Newspaper Navigator application on April 21st, 2025. Created by Benjamin Charles Germain Lee while he was in service as a Library of Congress Innovator in Residence, the application has received over 174,000 visitors representing tens of thousands of research experiences. Ben’s project was the first in-house machine learning application developed …

Posted in: Digital Content, Innovator in Residence

Black and white photograph depicting a woman in a long dress crouching by a wall of card catalog file cabinets in the Library's Main Reading Room. She is pulling open a drawer from one of the cabinets.

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) …

Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Research, Interviews