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Posted by: Tracee Haupt
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Marcus Nappier, and Liz Holdzkom of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division at the Library of Congress. Fun with File Formats is back with another installment! Our first two blog posts from December 2021 and June 2022 were very popular with readers of The Signal. No surprise that there are …
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Formats, Guest Posts, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
In this guest post, Kathleen O'Neill, Senior Archives Specialist in the Manuscript Division, announces the launch of a new workstation in the Library's Manuscript Division reading room.
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, Guest Posts, Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Digital Projects Coordinator in Digital Collections Management and Services at the Library of Congress and Bertram Lyons, Partner at AVP. FADGI (Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative) is pleased to announce a new release of its free open source application embARC with support for FFV1 encoding. embARC, short for …
Posted in: Digital Content, FADGI, Formats, Guest Posts, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
LC Labs Letter September issue.
Posted in: API, Computational Research, Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Labs Letter, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The new “Exploring Chronicling America Newspapers” application dynamically maps publication locations of over 3,000 digitized newspapers currently available in the Chronicling America online collection.
Posted in: Digital Content, Guest Posts, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
This post was originally written by Melissa Wertheimer, a Music Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress, for In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog. In June 2020, I was appointed to the Library’s interdisciplinary Coronavirus Web Archive project team to select social and cultural content. The Coronavirus Web Archive’s official landing page and press release came out on #WebArchiveWednesday, …
Posted in: Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Web Archiving
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Marcus Nappier, and Liz Holdzkom of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division at the Library of Congress. Are you a file format fan? If you’re curious how to pronounce the still image format HEIF (spoiler alert: it rhymes with “beef”) or the difference between PDF/A-3 and PDF/A-4, …
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Formats, Guest Posts, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
2021 Innovator in Residence Courtney McClellan created Speculative Annotation, an experimental browser-based application that encourages students and teachers to have conversations with historic Library of Congress items through annotation and mark-making. McClellan is a research-based artist who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. With a subject focus on speech and civic engagement, McClellan works in a range …
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training, Interviews, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Videos and Podcasts
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
This post describes a collaboration between LC Labs member Eileen J. Manchester and Peter DeCraene, the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow to answer the question: "what would it mean to treat a dataset as a primary source?"
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Insights Interview, Open Data, Open Research, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure