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Posted by: Jaime Mears
This is a guest post by Flynn Shannon, a Junior Fellow in the Library of Congress Office of Communications. Before coming to the Library of Congress as a Junior Fellow I had no concept of how large or varied its collections are. Over 167 million items are kept at the Library. Of these, more than …
Posted in: Internships and Fellowships, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
The following is a guest post from Library of Congress Labs Innovation Intern, Charlie Moffett. In the course of crafting data-driven narratives with digital collections, he created @govislandbot and an open-source mapping tutorial. Below he shares his processes, some of the challenges he encountered, along with the code. I started my remote internship with LC Labs …
Posted in: Digital Content, Internships and Fellowships, NDI, Open Data
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
The following is a guest post from Innovation Intern Aditya Jain on his Southern Mosaic visualization. Two weeks into my LC Labs Innovation internship, I came across Rachel I. Howard’s essay Southern Mosaic on the Library of Congress website. The essay describes the story of John and Ruby Lomax, a husband and wife who made …
Posted in: Digital Content, Internships and Fellowships
Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is the final post in a seven-part series by Samantha Herron, our 2017 Junior Fellow. She created this guide to help LC Labs explore how to support digital scholarship at the Library and we started publishing them in January. She’s covered why digital materials matter, how to create digital documents, what digital documents make possible, text …
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Internships and Fellowships, NDI, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is part six in a seven part resource guide for digital scholarship by Samantha Herron, our 2017 Junior Fellow, is is a short but useful introduction to doing network analysis with data based on collections. Part one is available here, and the full guide is available as a PDF download. Network analysis looks at relationships within a …
Posted in: Digital Content, Internships and Fellowships
Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is part five in a seven part resource guide for digital scholarship by Samantha Herron, our 2017 Junior Fellow. Part one is available here, part two about making digital documents is here, part three is about tools to work with data, part four is all about doing text analysis, and today’s post is focused on spatial analysis. The full …
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Internships and Fellowships, NDI, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is part four in a seven part resource guide for digital scholarship by Samantha Herron, our 2017 Junior Fellow. Part one is available here, part two about making digital documents is here, part three is about tools to work with data, and part four (below) is all about doing text analysis. The full guide is available …
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Internships and Fellowships, NDI, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Jaime Mears
The following is a guest post from Library of Congress Labs Innovation Intern, Aditya Jain. While exploring the possibilities of digital collections, Aditya created @newspaperbot. Below he shares his process, some of the challenges he encountered, along with the code. Due to updates related to Twitter’s API, this bot is no longer functional. The Chronicling …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Internships and Fellowships, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is part three of our Digital Scholarship Research Guide created by Samantha Herron. See parts one about digital scholarship projects and two about how to create digital documents. So now you have digital data… Great! But what to do? Regardless of what your data are (sometimes it’s just pictures and documents and notes, sometimes …
Posted in: Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Internships and Fellowships, Publications and Resources