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Posted by: Trevor Owens
The following is co-authored with Joe Puccio, the Library of Congress Collection Development Officer. Digital collections, and the work related to their acquisition, preservation and access, have become increasingly central to Library of Congress processes and our mission to serve Congress and the nation. For the last five years, in accordance with the Library of …
Posted in: Digital Content
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
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
Introduction The Selected Datasets Collection was publicly launched June 2020 as part of the Library’s ongoing efforts to support emerging data-driven styles of research. Since then, our initial offering of twenty datasets has grown to nearly 200 unique items, and we’ve continued to refine the technical workflows by which content is prepared and delivered to …
Posted in: Data Librarianship, Digital Content, Open Data, Web Archiving
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
LC Labs' monthly newsletter for October 2021.
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Computational Research, Crowdsourcing, Digital Content, digital humanities, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
September newsletter from LC Labs, highlighting opportunities with the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative.
Posted in: Digital Content, digital scholarship, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
For thirty years the Library of Congress has offered undergraduate and graduate students from across the country the opportunity to work on projects focused on expanding access to and use of the Library’s collections. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Junior Fellows program continued to be entirely virtual in 2021. The Digital Content …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
For thirty years the Library of Congress has offered undergraduate and graduate students from across the country the opportunity to work on projects focused on expanding access to and use of the Library’s collections. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Junior Fellows program continued to be entirely virtual in 2021. The Digital Content …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
This is an interview with Maria Capecchi, Abigail Tick, and Joshua Ortiz Baco, three of the seven students that joined our team during the summer of 2021. As a small group, they worked together to better understand the Newspaper Navigator data set with the needs of undergraduate students in mind.
Posted in: Computational Research, Content Matters Interview, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Interviews, Open Data, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
This is an interview with Emily Zerrenner, Jodanna Domond, Luke Borland, and Darshni Patel, four of the seven students that joined our team during the summer of 2021. As a small group, they worked together to better understand the Library's Web Archives with the needs of researchers and data visualization artists in mind.
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Interviews, Open Research, Partners and Collaboration, Web Archiving