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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: 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: 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: Eileen J. Manchester
n October 2022, the outcomes of a 2015 experiment to geo-reference 4,998 digitized maps of the Austro-Hungarian empire were shared with the public at the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Data Jam. Check out this recent post on World's Revealed, the Library's Geography and Maps blog, to learn more about the resulting GeoTIFF files enable access to digitized historical maps.
Posted in: Computational Research, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Digital Content
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
An interview with two people who have worked extensively with LC APIs: Laura Wrubel, currently a digital library software developer at Stanford Libraries, and Patrick Rourke, software engineer at the Library of Congress who led the recent loc.gov/apis update.
Posted in: API, Computational Research, Digital Content, Interviews
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The Library of Congress recently published a series of updates to loc.gov/apis, home to technical documentation for multiple application programming interfaces.
Posted in: API, Computational Research, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, Inside the Library
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Cross post of the Labs December newsletter on CCHC data sandbox and initiative progress.
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Innovator in Residence, Labs Letter
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
LC Labs is pleased to announce the release of three new sets of digitized materials packaged as data.
Posted in: Computational Research, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Inside the Library, Open Data, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
In this guest post, Kathleen O'Neill, Senior Archives Specialist in the Manuscript Division, announces the launch of a new workstation in the Library's Manuscript Division reading room.
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, Guest Posts, Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure