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Metaphors for Understanding Born Digital Collection Access: Part III

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

Kathleen O’Neill is currently serving as one of two Staff Innovators at the Library of Congress. Their 2020 project, Born Digital Access Now!, explores existing pathways for accessing born digital materials in the Manuscript Division. In this series of blog posts, Kathleen describes the complexities of gaining access to born digital materials through the lens of three different metaphors. Up first was "Media Format, or, Have Fun Storming the Castle!" The second blog post discussed "Legacy File Formats and Operating Systems or Lost in Translation." This is the third and final post in the series and Kathleen carefully explains the process of emulation and makes it feel less like "strange magic."

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Metaphors for Understanding Born Digital Collection Access: Part II

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

Kathleen O'Neill is currently serving as one of two Staff Innovators at the Library of Congress. Their 2020 project, Born Digital Access Now!, explores existing pathways for accessing born digital materials in the Manuscript Division. In this series of blog posts, Kathleen describes the complexities of gaining access to born digital materials even before they reach researchers. This is the second post in the series and focuses on legacy file formats through the metaphor of being "lost in translation."

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Innovator Ben Lee and LC Labs Host “Data Jam” with 100 Million Historic Newspaper Images

Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal

A gallery of historic moustaches, a wall of 12,000 photos, a collage of First World War-era “damn the Kaiser” cartoons, and more were on display May 7, when 135 people attended a virtual “data jam” to dig into a massive new collection of historic newspaper images.  LC Labs hosted the event to showcase Library of …

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Innovator Brian Foo Incorporates “Citizen DJs” into Design Process

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. 

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PDF is Here to Stay: Archiving with the Portable Document Format

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray (Digital Projects Coordinator, Digital Collections Management and Services Division, Library of Congress), Duff Johnson (Executive Director, PDF Association / ISO Project Leader, ISO 32000), and Kevin De Vorsey (Senior Electronic Records Policy Analyst, Records Management Policy and Standards, National Archives and Records Administration). PDF in the Federal Archiving …

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Machine Learning + Libraries Summit: Event Summary now live!

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

The Machine Learning + Libraries Summit Event Summary is now available as a downloadable report on labs.loc.gov. This document includes more detailed information about the conference proceedings. It broadly summarizes recurring themes of discussion and compiles the outputs of the small group activities.

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Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Quarterly Update

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

This is a guest post from LC Labs Senior Innovation Specialist Laurie Allen. This is the second post in a series where we are sharing experiences from the Andrew W. Mellon-funded Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud. The series began with an introductory post.  Learn about the grant on the experiments page, and see the …