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Posted by: Tracee Haupt
Today’s guest post is from Abbie Grotke (Assistant Head of the Digital Content Management section), Grace Bicho (Senior Digital Collections Specialist), Lauren Baker (Senior Digital Collections Specialist), and Abbey Potter (Senior Innovation Specialist), all from the Library of Congress. In May, the Library of Congress sent four representatives to the 2023 Web Archiving Conference and …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
Have you ever wondered what exactly is web archiving? How the Library select which websites to preserve? Or how you would find and search the web archives? The Web Archiving Team’s Senior Digital Collection Specialists gathered to answer these questions and more in a live webinar during the Preservation Directorate’s celebration of Preservation Week. If …
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Web Archiving
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
Today’s guest post is from Abbie Grotke, Assistant Head of the Digital Content Management section at the Library of Congress. Users of the Library of Congress Web Archives may have recently noticed issues when trying to access archived content presented at webarchive.loc.gov. We want to give some background and explanation about the ongoing work that is happening to modernize and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Guest Posts, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Web Archiving
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
n October 2022, the outcomes of a 2015 experiment to geo-reference 4,998 digitized maps of the Austro-Hungarian empire were shared with the public at the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Data Jam. Check out this recent post on World's Revealed, the Library's Geography and Maps blog, to learn more about the resulting GeoTIFF files enable access to digitized historical maps.
Posted in: Computational Research, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Digital Content
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
The Digital Content Management Section of the Library of Congress has refined a workflow for the large-scale acquisition of and access to open access books. In this post, read about our process and challenges faced along the way.
Posted in: Digital Content, Open Access
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Summer recap of activities undertaken by the LC Labs team.
Posted in: API, Digital Content, digital humanities, Labs Letter
Posted by: Trevor Owens
I’m excited to share this interview with Lauren Algee, one of my colleagues in the Digital Services Directorate here at the Library of Congress. My hope that interviews like this help to spread awareness about the background, experience, and interests of the people that support the Library of Congress. Along with that, I think it’s …
Posted in: Digital Content, Inside the Library, Interviews
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
This post is provides updates to the Library of Congress's Recommended Formats Statement for 2023-2024.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
This post is part of the blog series on file format research for the Sustainability of Digital Formats site at the Library of Congress, and provides updates on new and updated file format description documents.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Tools and Infrastructure