Category: Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud

digitized scan of historic map of austria-hungary

Check out: The Secret Life of GeoTIFFs

August 21, 2023

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

screen capture of loc.gov as it appeared in the year 2000

Library of Congress on the Web: from early innovation to well-documented public API

June 5, 2023

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