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Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
The explosion of interest surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) will clearly have a tremendous impact on the world of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM). The Library of Congress is exploring how certain AI use cases can help expand access to our collection, enhance services for users, and improve efficiency. We are still in the early …
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Research, Digital Content
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
LC Labs has been developing a planning framework to support the responsible exploration and potential adoption of AI at the Library.
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Laurie Allen
Why Machine Learning? Everyone at the Library of Congress wants the materials we steward and the services we offer to be useful for as many people as possible. It’s why we do what we do! And across the Library, staff have long relied on technological innovations to enable people to use our materials to become …
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
For decades, digital technologies have rewritten the playbook for government agencies, libraries, and cultural heritage organizations. The Library of Congress has investigated, implemented, and even invented new digital approaches and technical methods since the 1950s, aspiring better to serve Congress and the American people with each new technical turn. Today, technology fuels everything we do, …
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Research, Digital Content, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
Across the last five years, LC Labs experiments have integrated sundry perspectives and disciplines to connect people, practice, and history; from making collections more legible and discoverable through volunteer crowdsourcing efforts with Beyond Words and By the People, to developing frameworks for ethically engaging people when adopting machine learning with Humans in the Loop, to …
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Sharing the CCHC data jam event recording and summary of an engaging set of discussions on the complexities of accessing and analyzing digital cultural materials as datasets.
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
LC Labs' newsletter for December 2021.
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Research, Education and Training, Innovator in Residence
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Special issue of the Labs Letter welcoming a cohort of researchers to the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) initiative.
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, digital humanities, digital scholarship
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
An overview of the Humans in the Loop experiment to explore ways to responsibly combine crowdsourcing experiences and machine learning workflows.
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Research, Digital Content, Open Research, Partners and Collaboration