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Annotation as Aesthetic: A Closing Interview with Innovator in Residence Courtney McClellan

Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal

2021 Innovator in Residence Courtney McClellan created Speculative Annotation, an experimental browser-based application that encourages students and teachers to have conversations with historic Library of Congress items through annotation and mark-making. McClellan is a research-based artist who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. With a subject focus on speech and civic engagement, McClellan works in a range …

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a…derivative dataset!

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

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Sparking the Datamagination: 2021 Digital Strategy Summer Intern Design Sprint part II

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

This is an interview with Maria Capecchi, Abigail Tick, and Joshua Ortiz Baco, three of the seven students that joined our team during the summer of 2021. As a small group, they worked together to better understand the Newspaper Navigator data set with the needs of undergraduate students in mind.

Posted in: Computational Research, Content Matters Interview, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Interviews, Open Data, Partners and Collaboration

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Next Slide Please: 2021 Digital Strategy Summer Intern Design Sprint part I

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

This is an interview with Emily Zerrenner, Jodanna Domond, Luke Borland, and Darshni Patel, four of the seven students that joined our team during the summer of 2021. As a small group, they worked together to better understand the Library's Web Archives with the needs of researchers and data visualization artists in mind.

Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Interviews, Open Research, Partners and Collaboration, Web Archiving