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Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
The Digital Imaging Workflow for Treatment Documentation, an instructional manual for conservation photodocumentation used in the Conservation Division at the Library of Congress, is now available online.
Posted in: Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
The BagIt File Packaging Format celebrates its tenth anniversary and becoming an IETF 1.0 specification. This post reflects on the development of BagIt and the ways the Library supports multiple tools to help content creators, donors, and service providers package digital content in BagIt structure.
Posted in: Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
This is a guest post from Lauren Algee, LC Labs Senior Innovation Specialist. Connect with Lauren and her fellow crowd.loc.gov Community Managers Elaine Kamlley and Victoria Van Hyning via History Hub and on Twitter, as well as GitHub. What yet-unwritten stories lie within the pages of Clara Barton’s diaries, writings of Civil Rights pioneer Mary Church Terrell, or …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Crowdsourcing, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
Big news! We’ll launch a crowdsourcing program at the Library of Congress on October 24. We’re asking everyone to join us as we improve discovery and access across our diverse collections through transcription and tagging. The program is grounded in what we’ve learned through our previous experiences with participatory projects at the Library, including image …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Digital Content, Open Data, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
In January, the LC Labs team welcomed Charlie Moffett as he kicked off his innovation internship with the Library of Congress. He’s been exploring digital collections and geospatial data and where the two might intersect to tell stories about place and change. We checked in with him to learn more about his goals, background, and …
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, Open Data, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
The following is a guest post by Kate Murray, organizer of the FADGI Audio-Visual Working Group and Digital Projects Coordinator at the Library of Congress. The Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative is pleased to announce the release of ADCTest, an open source software application designed to facilitate performance testing of analog-to-digital converters (ADC) used in …
Posted in: Digital Content, FADGI, Open Access, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
This is a guest post by Charlotte Kostelic, National Digital Stewardship Resident with the Library of Congress and Royal Collection Trust for the Georgian Papers Programme. Her project focuses on exploring ways to optimize access and use among related digital collections held at separate institutions. This work has included a comparative analysis of international metadata …
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital scholarship, Education and Training, NDSR, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
Library of Congress Innovator-in-Residence, Jer Thorp, has started diving into the collections at the Library. We’ve rounded up some of his activities in October and how he is sharing his process in this post. Jer has created a “text-based exploration of Library of Congress @librarycongress‘ MARC records, specifically of ~9M books & the names of …
Posted in: Computational Research, Innovator in Residence, Open Data, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
As a part of Library of Congress Labs release last week, the National Digital Initiatives team launched Beyond Words. This pilot crowdsourcing application was created in collaboration with the Serial and Government Publications Division and the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) at the Library of Congress. In our first week and a half, …
Posted in: Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, NDI, Tools and Infrastructure