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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
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: Jesse Johnston
Over the past two years, my colleagues and I in the Digital Content Management section have been working with experts from across many divisions of the Library of Congress to collate and assemble guidance and policy that guide or reflect the practices that the Library uses to manage digital collections. I am excited to share …
Posted in: Digital Content, NDSA, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
This is a guest post from 2018 Library of Congress Labs team Junior Fellow Eileen Jakeway that discusses her work on a collaborative Digital Scholarship pilot with the John W. Kluge Center. In her address at the 2018 Junior Fellows Program closing ceremony this August, Manuscript Division Junior Fellow Patrice Green said that she learned a …
Posted in: Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
Have you noticed that our LC for Robots page has a new look this month? We integrated feedback from visitors, discussion, and a card sorting exercise to consolidate resources for machine-readable access to Library of Congress digital collections. We’re looking for your feedback, but first, learn more about how we approached this redesign. In September …
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital scholarship, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is the final post in a seven-part series by Samantha Herron, our 2017 Junior Fellow. She created this guide to help LC Labs explore how to support digital scholarship at the Library and we started publishing them in January. She’s covered why digital materials matter, how to create digital documents, what digital documents make possible, text …
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, NDI, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is part five in a seven part resource guide for digital scholarship by Samantha Herron, our 2017 Junior Fellow. Part one is available here, part two about making digital documents is here, part three is about tools to work with data, part four is all about doing text analysis, and today’s post is focused on spatial analysis. The full …
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, NDI, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Abbey Potter
This is part four in a seven part resource guide for digital scholarship by Samantha Herron, our 2017 Junior Fellow. Part one is available here, part two about making digital documents is here, part three is about tools to work with data, and part four (below) is all about doing text analysis. The full guide is available …
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, NDI, Publications and Resources