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Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
This post was originally featured on the Minerva's Kaleidoscope blog for kids and families. We're excited and grateful to be able to re-share about this opportunity to experience Citizen DJ at the virtual National Book Festival next week!
Posted in: Content Matters Interview, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Education and Training, Open Access, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
July's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Access, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
May's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Access, Open Data, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The following is a guest post by Innovator in Residence Brian Foo, creator of Citizen DJ. The Citizen DJ project invites the public to make music using the free-to-use audio and video collections from the Library of Congress. The project will feature online tools for exploring and remixing tens of thousands of sounds from a variety of collections ranging from music to government film to oral histories.
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, At the Museum, Education and Training, Innovator in Residence, Open Access, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Videos and Podcasts
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
This is a guest post by Kristy Darby, a Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section in Library Services. We are excited to share that anyone anywhere can now access a growing online collection of contemporary open access eBooks from the Library of Congress website. For example, you can now directly access books …
Posted in: Digital Content, Open Access
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The 3D Digital Modeling, Imaging, and Printing Working Group was created to explore the use of 3D technologies to expand access to the Library’s collections. In Fall 2019, the working group launched a pilot in which a limited selection of items from the online collections were 3D scanned and the 3D models made publicly available. In …
Posted in: At the Museum, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, Education and Training, FADGI, Open Access, Open Data, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
Discussion of the progress toward the goals of the five year plan described in Collecting Digital Content at the Library of Congress, with emphasis on the six objectives of the framework and a list of notable accomplishments in FY2019.
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Open Access
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Charlotte Kostelic, a Digital Collections Specialist within the Digital Content Management Section of the Library of Congress. The move toward publishing research through open publishing models is growing internationally, but in Latin America, Open Access (OA) publishing is growing at a faster rate than elsewhere. Recent studies suggest 51-95% of …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Inside the Library, Open Access
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
The following is a guest post by Kate Murray, organizer of the FADGI Audio-Visual Working Group and Digital Projects Coordinator at the Library of Congress. The Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative is pleased to announce the release of ADCTest, an open source software application designed to facilitate performance testing of analog-to-digital converters (ADC) used in …
Posted in: Digital Content, FADGI, Open Access, Tools and Infrastructure