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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 Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Labs Letter
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: Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship
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, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Inside the Library, Open Data, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
LC Labs turns 5!
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Inside the Library, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The LC Labs team's June newsletter focuses on data and libraries.
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Labs Letter
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
The following guest post by Josh Levy, Historian of Science and Technology in the Library’s Manuscript Division, is part two of a series. You can find Part 1 of the series, “Doing History with Born Digital Files: the Rhoda Métraux and Edward Lorenz Papers,” posted on The Signal. Archives can’t just collect physical objects anymore. …
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Formats, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
This post describes a collaboration between LC Labs member Eileen J. Manchester and Peter DeCraene, the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow to answer the question: "what would it mean to treat a dataset as a primary source?"
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Insights Interview, Open Data, Open Research, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
Introduction The Selected Datasets Collection was publicly launched June 2020 as part of the Library’s ongoing efforts to support emerging data-driven styles of research. Since then, our initial offering of twenty datasets has grown to nearly 200 unique items, and we’ve continued to refine the technical workflows by which content is prepared and delivered to …
Posted in: Data Librarianship, Digital Content, Open Data, Web Archiving