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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 highlights. Click here for …
Posted in: New on loc.gov
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Madeline Goebel, a Digital Collections Specialist at the Library of Congress. As a reader of the Signal, you may already be familiar with By the People, the Library of Congress’s crowdsourcing program that allows volunteers to transcribe, review, and tag digitized pages from the Library’s collections. Further, you may already know …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Genevieve Havemeyer-King, a Senior Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Collections Management and Services Division. “Development is maintenance.” Brian Marick, “Agile Manifesto” co-author This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Digital Collections Management Compendium’s public debut on loc.gov. The Digital Collections Management and Services Division officially launched the Compendium …
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Jaime Mears
The following is a guest post by Library of Congress Innovator in Residence Jeffrey Yoo Warren in conversation with interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker Evelyn Hang Yin. “Relational reconstructions” are a creative, experiential research method developed by Yoo Warren for minoritized groups to reclaim archives and access erased moments, histories, and spaces personally meaningful to them, …
Posted in: Asian American History, Guest Posts, Innovator in Residence, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Lauren Algee, a Senior Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section and a By the People community manager.** Douglass Day 2024 marked the busiest day in the history of By the People, the Library of Congress’s crowdsourced transcription program. The transcribe-a-thon for the Frederick Douglass Papers was groundbreaking …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Crowdsourcing, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
Technologist Ashley Blewer is using the format description document XML files to gather data across all FDDs. She has pulled this data into data visualization tools which allow us to see what categories our FDDs fall into and how many FDDs are being updated (by category, each year). These visualizations help the formats team to identify issues and streamline internal review and update processes.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Tools and Infrastructure
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
Posted by: Jaime Mears
The Library of Congress is seeking our next Innovator in Residence to start in September 2024! We will fund an individual up to $90,000 per year for a maximum of two years to do research with Library of Congress collections, produce a creative and transformative digital work for the American people, and serve as an …
Posted in: Computational Research, Innovator in Residence
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
The Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) AudioVisual Working Group partnered with a consultant and accessibility firm on a project to enhance accessibility in open-source desktop applications for the digital preservation community. This blog post provides information on the applications tested, the issues found, and the technical guidelines and community recommendations to come out of this research.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, FADGI, Guest Posts