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Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
Digital collections in libraries are vast—and growing, as we continue to digitize cultural heritage materials and acquire new born digital collections. At the same time, the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence has grown exponentially. At LC Labs, we explore how technology can help fulfill the Library of Congress’s vision that “all Americans are …
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Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
This blog post introduces Kathleen O'Neill and Chad Conrady, the 2020 Staff Innovators with LC Labs.
Posted in: Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Insights Interview, Open Research, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Call for readers to fill out a feedback survey about the Signal blog.
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Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
June's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, Open Data, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
Friends, data wranglers, lend me your ears; The Library of Congress’ Selected Datasets Collection is now live! You can now download datasets of the Simple English Wikipedia, the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, sports economic data, half a million emails from Enron, and urban soil lead abatement from this online collection. This initial set of …
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Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
This guest blog post is shared by Chris Adams, Solutions Architect in the Office of the Chief Information Officer/IT Design & Development Directorate, and Julia Kim, Digital Projects Coordinator at the National Library for the Blind and Print Disabled at the Library of Congress, formerly the Digital Assets Specialist at the American Folklife Center, supporting …
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Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
May's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Access, Open Data, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
The following is a repost from the blog Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress. The author is Rachel Trent, Digital Collections and Automation Coordinator in the Geography and Maps Division. Interested in bulk downloading maps from the Library of Congress’s online collections? Need a corpus of historical map images to build a training dataset …
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Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
LC LABS LETTER A Monthly Roundup of News and Thoughts from the Library of Congress Labs Team Editor’s Note As it did for many people across the country and all over the world, the month of March brought new ways of working and communicating and challenging, complex circumstances for the LC Labs team. We found …
Posted in: Computational Research, Crowdsourcing, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Data, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure, Videos and Podcasts