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Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
In this blog post, 2025 Junior Fellow Kailyn Slater describes her work evaluating and expanding the Mass Communications Web Archive,
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Guest Posts, Interviews, Web Archiving
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
This guest post was authored by Abbie Grotke, Head of the Web Archiving Section. As described in our prior blog post, we have been in the process of modernizing and making improvements to the Library of Congress Web Archives to improve functionality for users. While this work has taken us a bit longer than anticipated, we are pleased to announce the …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Tools and Infrastructure, Web Archiving
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
This blog post was guest-authored by Rachel Trent, Senior Digital Collections Data Librarian. For nearly twenty-five years, the Library of Congress has been archiving campaign websites for Presidential, Congressional, and gubernatorial elections. Back in 2022, we released a dataset of index files for the United States Elections Web Archive, and we are happy to announce …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Open Data, Web Archiving
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
Today’s guest post is from Abbie Grotke, Assistant Head of the Digital Content Management section at the Library of Congress. Users of the Library of Congress Web Archives may have recently noticed issues when trying to access archived content presented at webarchive.loc.gov. We want to give some background and explanation about the ongoing work that is happening to modernize and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Guest Posts, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Web Archiving
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
This is a guest post from Chris Lacinak, Founder and CEO of AVP, and Kate Murray, Digital Projects Coordinator in Digital Collections Management and Services at the Library of Congress. Recognizing the importance of meeting the Library of Congress’s goals and mission related to accessibility, the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) has embarked on …
Posted in: Digital Content, FADGI, Guest Posts, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Digital Projects Coordinator in Digital Collections Management and Services and Charles Hosale at American Folklife Center, both from the Library of Congress. I have said more than once that ‘FADGI’, pronounced ‘fah-gee’ and short for the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative, is a terrible acronym (Charles quips “Hey, …
Posted in: Digital Preservation, FADGI, Formats, Guest Posts, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
Today’s guest post is from Abbie Grotke, Assistant Head of the Digital Content Management section at the Library of Congress. Rick Fitzgerald contributed to the Library’s web archiving program for over fifteen years as a cataloger and metadata expert. He recently moved on to a new position in Collections Management Division, as a Cataloging Specialist/Problem …
Posted in: Digital Content, Guest Posts, Interviews, Partners and Collaboration, Web Archiving
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Marcus Nappier, and Liz Holdzkom of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division at the Library of Congress. Fun with File Formats is back with another installment! Our first two blog posts from December 2021 and June 2022 were very popular with readers of The Signal. No surprise that there are …
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Formats, Guest Posts, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
Today’s guest post is from Abby Shelton, a Digital Collections Specialist and By the People Community Manager in the Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress. How do people use crowdsourced transcriptions? Do they drive increased traffic and engagement to our digital collections? What kinds of activity do transcriptions of handwritten documents facilitate? …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Crowdsourcing, Guest Posts