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Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
The following is a guest post by Josh Levy, Historian of Science and Technology in the Library’s Manuscript Division. What’s a historian to do with a born digital file? On Christmas Day, 1854, between family gatherings and fretting over the cost of living in Washington, engineer Montgomery Meigs was notating his plans to build a …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
Last year, LC Labs worked with partners across the Library and outside its walls to advance the Digital Strategy. Here’s a look back at some of our work on the strategy’s goals of opening the treasure chest, connecting, and investing in our future, and a preview of this year’s plans. In the coming year, we …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
The following is a repost from the blog Of the People. The author is Kate Zwaard, Director of Digital Strategy. You may have seen the news about the Library’s exciting new program Of the People, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which will allow us to do more to connect our collections, staff, and services to …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
Walk the streets of any U.S. city today, and you might come across historic markers or masonry etchings indicating what the buildings used to be. It is always fascinating to learn what our neighborhoods, cities, and towns used to be —factories turned residences, street names changed, the places and spaces our predecessors lived, ate, and …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
December's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: Computational Research, Content Matters Interview, Digital Content, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Interviews, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Abbey Potter
Experimenting toward the Digital Strategy In LC Labs we work collaboratively across the Library of Congress, and with external partners, to advance and the agency’s Digital Strategy. We do this through experimentation, engagement and research. We try approaches and explore technologies that could help us connect with users, share our resources in new ways, and …
Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
A reflection on the 2020 Staff Innovator detail from an LC Labs team member, shared in the hopes that some of the lessons we learned from this cross-institutional partnership may be applicable to other institutions and interesting to our readers!
Posted in: Data Librarianship, Digital Content, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Research, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
November's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Guest Posts, Interviews, Open Data, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
Do you work with digital collections as data in your research? Apply for a contract to work with Library of Congress data in the cloud as part of the Computing Cultural Heritage Collections project. Researchers will help the Library build a rich understanding of the uses for large scale computational access to library collections, including …
Posted in: Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Digital Content