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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: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
LC LABS LETTER A Monthly Roundup of News and Thoughts from the Library of Congress Labs Team Editor’s Note As it did for many people across the country and all over the world, the month of March brought new ways of working and communicating and challenging, complex circumstances for the LC Labs team. We found …
Posted in: Computational Research, Crowdsourcing, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Data, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Videos and Podcasts
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: Meghan Ferriter
Announcing preliminary details for Arts & Humanities Research Council UK-US Partnership Development Grant awarded jointly to the the British Library, the Zooniverse, and the Library of Congress. The project is titled "From crowdsourcing to digitally-enabled participation: the state of the art in collaboration, access, and inclusion for cultural heritage institutions." Several opportunities to participate are described.
Posted in: Crowdsourcing, Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
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
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 …
Posted in: Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Data, Open Research, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure, University Librarians
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
This is a guest post by Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal from the Digital Strategy Directorate. Leah outlines below some of the major milestones reached by the Directorate in 2019. Looking Back and Looking Forward Exciting changes are afoot for digital transformation at the Library of Congress! This post reviews some of the things we did last year …
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital scholarship, Inside the Library, Open Data, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure