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Posted by: Tracee Haupt
Today’s guest post is from Tracee Haupt, a Digital Collection Specialist in the Digital Content Management section at the Library of Congress. On the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, I asked four individuals who were part of the creation of the September 11, 2001 Web Archive to reflect on their experience documenting …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Interviews, Web Archiving
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: Carlyn Osborn
In today’s post, By the People community manager Lauren Algee interviews members of the Douglass Day team about their February 2021 transcribe-a-thon for the Mary Church Terrell Papers. Launched in 2018, By the People is a volunteer engagement and collection enhancement program at the Library of Congress that invites the public to explore and transcribe Library of Congress digital …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Crowdsourcing, Interviews, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
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
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
Posted by: Trevor Owens
I’m excited to share this interview with Marcus Nappier, one of my colleagues in the Digital Content Management Section. My hope with this interview, and the others that we publish here, help spread awareness about the background, experience, and interests of the people that support the Library of Congress in providing enduring access to digital …
Posted in: Interviews
Posted by: Trevor Owens
I’m thrilled to share that Abby Shelton has joined the Digital Content Management section as a new Digital Collections Specialist working as a community manager on the By the People Program. To that end, I’m also happy to share this interview as part of our occasional series where we learn more about the background, experience, and …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Interviews
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
In today’s post, I interview a By the People volunteer, Maddie, who has gone above and beyond! By the People is a crowdsourced transcription program launched in 2018 at the Library of Congress. Volunteer-created transcriptions are used to make digitized collections more accessible and discoverable on loc.gov. You can read our other Volunteer Vignettes on the Signal here and here. Carlyn: What …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Interviews
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
In today’s post, Sam Schireson interviews a By the People volunteer, Judith, who has gone above and beyond! By the People is a crowdsourced transcription program launched in 2018 at the Library of Congress. Volunteer-created transcriptions are used to make digitized collections more accessible and discoverable on loc.gov. You can read our other Volunteer Vignette on the Signal …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Interviews