Carlyn Osborn is a Librarian (Digital Collections Specialist) in the Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress and a Community Manager for the By the People program. She graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (2014) and from the University of Maryland College of Information Studies with a M.L.I.S., specializing in Archives and Digital Curation (2017). Carlyn has been involved with museums, libraries, and special collections since 2010 and is interested in the history of science, crowdsourced cultural heritage, and digital engagement. Prior to joining the Digital Content Management Section and the By the People Team, Carlyn worked in the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress, where she founded the blog Worlds Revealed in 2015.
Most Recent Posts
- FADGI’s embARC: Extending embedded metadata support and validation for DPX and MXF files September 23rd, 2021
- The September 11, 2001 Web Archive: Twenty Years Later September 22nd, 2021
- Reading the (Same) Signals: Using FADGI’s ADCTest for Quality Control in Outsourced Audio Digitization September 16th, 2021
- That’s Our Cue! Updates for the FADGI Embedded Metadata Guidelines and BWF MetaEdit for the Cue Chunk in Broadcast Wave Files September 9th, 2021
- Review With Us: By the People and Smithsonian Transcription Center team up for crowdsourced transcription September 1st, 2021
- Reflecting on the Mary Church Terrell transcribe-a-thon with the Douglass Day team August 20th, 2021
- Diving into Branch Rickey: Using a dataset of crowdsourced transcriptions as a tool for open research June 10th, 2021
- Developing a New Digital Collections Strategy at the Nation’s Library May 6th, 2021
- Volunteer Vignette: It’s just so much fun! March 31st, 2021
- The Library of Congress Web Archiving Team Goes Agile January 14th, 2021