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Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
August's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
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."
Posted in: Data Librarianship, Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure
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."
Posted in: Data Librarianship, Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Call for readers to fill out a feedback survey about the Signal blog.
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
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 …
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Innovator in Residence, Outreach and Events
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: 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 …
Posted in: digital scholarship, Guest Posts, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
February's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Research, Outreach and Events, Publications and Resources
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.
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources