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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
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. Happy fourth birthday to By the People! To celebrate we are highlighting some of the best parts of the last year. Interested in our previous anniversary posts? Check out …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Guest Posts
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
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
This post was originally written by Melissa Wertheimer, a Music Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress, for In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog. In Part 1 of this series, I walked readers through Coronavirus Web Archive items within the theme of financial relief efforts in the performing arts. Part 2 of this series highlighted collection items related to medical and public health …
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Guest Posts, Web Archiving
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Digital Projects Coordinator in Digital Collections Management and Services at the Library of Congress and Bertram Lyons, Partner at AVP. FADGI (Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative) is pleased to announce a new release of its free open source application embARC with support for FFV1 encoding. embARC, short for …
Posted in: Digital Content, FADGI, Formats, Guest Posts, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
Today’s guest post is from Abby Shelton, a Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section and a Community Manager for the By the People crowdsourced transcription program. By the People volunteers completed over 9,000 pages this summer to meet our summer suffrage challenge! Our aim was to finish reviewing transcriptions for the National American …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Guest Posts
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews By the People volunteer and Youngstown State University student Julie Centofanti who has gone above and beyond! Julie started a Transcribing Club at YSU in 2020 to help fellow students fulfill a service requirement, build community, and have fun. She was one of two students to win a 2022 …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Guest Posts, Interviews
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
This is a guest post written by Olivia Meehan, a 2022 Junior Fellow working with the Web Archiving Team. Her project was completed under the mentorship of Lauren Baker. If you follow a link referenced in an article just to hit a dead-end, “page not found” error message – you have experienced link rot. “Link …
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Guest Posts, Internships and Fellowships, Web Archiving