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Every collection and project is its own unique journey: An Interview with Marcus Nappier

Posted by: Trevor Owens

I’m excited to share this interview with Marcus Nappier, one of my colleagues in the Digital Content Management Section. My hope with this interview, and the others that we publish here, help spread awareness about the background, experience, and interests of the people that support the Library of Congress in providing enduring access to digital …

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Web Archiving Virtually In Residence: An Interview with Meghan Lyon

Posted by: Trevor Owens

Meghan Lyon recently joined the Web Archiving Team in the Digital Content Management section as a Librarian in Residence. In support of developing the next generation of librarians and information professionals, the Librarians-in-Residence program (LIR) gives early-career librarians the opportunity to gain meaningful work experience at the Library of Congress. In light of the COVID-19 …

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10 Weeks of Digital Content Management at a Distance: An Interview with Junior Fellow Randi Proescholdt

Posted by: Trevor Owens

Every year the Library of Congress brings on a cohort of junior fellows to help expand access and use of collections. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic this program shifted to be entirely virtual in 2020. We are thrilled to have Randi Proescholdt, a graduate student from the University of Illinois’ School of Information Science, …

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Diving into Digital Content Management: An Interview with Mark Lopez

Posted by: Trevor Owens

I’m thrilled to share that Mark Lopez has joined the Digital Content Management section as a new Digital Collections Specialist. To that end, I’m also excited to share this interview as part of our occasional series where we learn more about the background, experience, and interests of the people that support the Library of Congress …

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In the Library’s Web Archives: 1,000 U.S. Government PowerPoint Slide Decks

Posted by: Trevor Owens

The Digital Content Management section has been working to extract and make available sets of files from the Library’s significant Web Archives holdings. The outcome of the project is a series of web archive file datasets, each containing 1,000 files of related media types selected from .gov domains. You can read more about this series …

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Appraisal of the Library of Congress Commissioned Composers Web Archive

Posted by: Trevor Owens

A key part of the Library of Congress Music Division is commissioning works from composers. This work has resulted in the development and performance of a wide range of significant works. Valuable documentation of the creators supported through these commissions increasingly appears as part of websites which are often ephemeral. Recognizing the value and ephemerality …

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The Library of Congress Web Archives: Dipping a Toe in a Lake of Data

Posted by: Trevor Owens

Today’s guest post is from Chase Dooley and Grace Thomas, Digital Collections Specialists on the Library of Congress Web Archiving Team.  Over the last two decades, the Library of Congress Web Archiving Program has acquired and made available over 16,000 web archives, as part of more than 114 event and thematic collections. Each Web Archive …