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Posted by: Brian Foo
In 2018, the Library launched the very popular Free To Use and Reuse Sets, where staff curate thematic sets of items from our digital collections that are either in the public domain, have no known copyright restrictions or have been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. The public is not only free to …
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, digital humanities, Open Access
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
The Digital Content Management Section of the Library of Congress has refined a workflow for the large-scale acquisition of and access to open access books. In this post, read about our process and challenges faced along the way.
Posted in: Digital Content, Open Access
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
Collaborative editing and preservation capabilities enabled by an emerging open source workflow and updated preservation guidelines? More on a pilot of annotation approaches with AudioAnnotate Audiovisual Extensible Workflow, FADGI and BWF MetaEdit, and American Folklife Center collections in this post.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, FADGI, Formats, Open Access, Open Research
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
We are delighted to introduce Victoria (Tori) Scheppele, a Library Technician in the Prints & Photographs Division who has joined us temporarily to work on the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) initiative. The CCHC initiative is supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Centered in LC Labs, the project …
Posted in: Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Inside the Library, Interviews, Open Access, Open Data
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
This is a guest post by Kristy Darby, a Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress. In March 2020, we first shared about the growing collection of open access e-books available on loc.gov. A lot has changed since then but, in particular, the Open Access Books Collection was …
Posted in: Open Access, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
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: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Joe Puccio, Collection Development Officer at the Library of Congress. Tremendous progress has been made by the Library of Congress in acquiring born-digital content as part of a coordinated strategy presented in its 2017 Digital Collecting Plan and previously reported in the Signal. With that plan now in its fifth …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Open Access, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Brian Foo reflects on the feedback from user testing he incorporated into the final design of Citizen DJ.
Posted in: At the Museum, Computational Research, Digital Content, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Guest Posts, Open Access, Open Data, Outreach and Events, 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