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Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team for August.
Posted in: Computational Research, Content Matters Interview, Data Librarianship, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Formats, Innovator in Residence, Inside the Library, Interviews, Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure
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
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The July newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: At the Museum, Computational Research, Crowdsourcing, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Access, Open Data, Open Research, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
December's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: Computational Research, Content Matters Interview, Digital Content, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Interviews, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
A reflection on the 2020 Staff Innovator detail from an LC Labs team member, shared in the hopes that some of the lessons we learned from this cross-institutional partnership may be applicable to other institutions and interesting to our readers!
Posted in: Data Librarianship, Digital Content, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Research, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
October's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Research, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Kathleen O'Neill is a 2020 Staff Innovator with LC Labs and a Senior Archivist in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. In this post, she discusses her analysis of the various file formats in the Manuscript Division's born-digital holdings.
Posted in: Content Matters Interview, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Formats, Guest Posts, Inside the Library, Open Research, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
September's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Computational Research, Crowdsourcing, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Formats, Inside the Library, Open Access, Open Data, Open Research, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
On September 15, 2020, the Library of Congress announced the release of Newspaper Navigator, an experimental web application which makes 1.5 million photographs from the dataset from Chronicling America available to the public to explore for the first time. Read more about the design and features of the project below or jump straight to the newly launched application at https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/search !
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, At the Museum, Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Access, Open Data, Open Research, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure