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That’s a wrap! 2020 Staff Innovator detail comes to a close

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

A reflection on the 2020 Staff Innovator detail from an LC Labs team member, shared in the hopes that some of the lessons we learned from this cross-institutional partnership may be applicable to other institutions and interesting to our readers! 

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An Archivist’s Perspective on Legacy Files

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

In this post, 2020 Staff Innovator Chad Conrady discusses his area of expertise, emulation, which imitates older operating systems in order to open outdated or legacy files that are no longer operable with contemporary operating systems or software.  

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Analyzing the Born-Digital Archive

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

Kathleen O'Neill is a 2020 Staff Innovator with LC Labs and a Senior Archivist in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. In this post, she discusses her analysis of the various file formats in the Manuscript Division's born-digital holdings.

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Newspaper Navigator Search Application Now Live!

Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester

On September 15, 2020, the Library of Congress announced the release of Newspaper Navigator, an experimental web application which makes 1.5 million photographs from the dataset from Chronicling America available to the public to explore for the first time. Read more about the design and features of the project below or jump straight to the newly launched application at https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/search !