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That’s a wrap! 2020 Staff Innovator detail comes to a close

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

A reflection on the 2020 Staff Innovator detail from an LC Labs team member, shared in the hopes that some of the lessons we learned from this cross-institutional partnership may be applicable to other institutions and interesting to our readers! 

Posted in: Data Librarianship, Digital Content, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Research, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration

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An Archivist’s Perspective on Legacy Files

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

In this post, 2020 Staff Innovator Chad Conrady discusses his area of expertise, emulation, which imitates older operating systems in order to open outdated or legacy files that are no longer operable with contemporary operating systems or software.  

Posted in: Computational Research, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Formats, Guest Posts, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure

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LC for Robots in Action: using the API to access the Federal Theatre Project collection

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

The following is a guest post by Derek Miller, Harvard University, and Elizabeth Brown, a reference librarian in the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress. In it, they discuss how Brown helped Miller access LC for Robots resources that helped him gain enhanced access to Library of Congress digital collections used in his research.

Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Guest Posts

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Analyzing the Born-Digital Archive

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

Kathleen O'Neill is a 2020 Staff Innovator with LC Labs and a Senior Archivist in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. In this post, she discusses her analysis of the various file formats in the Manuscript Division's born-digital holdings.

Posted in: Content Matters Interview, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Formats, Guest Posts, Inside the Library, Open Research, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure