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Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
This is a guest post by Kristy Darby, a Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section in Library Services. We are excited to share that anyone anywhere can now access a growing online collection of contemporary open access eBooks from the Library of Congress website. For example, you can now directly access books …
Posted in: Digital Content, Open Access
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
Announcing preliminary details for Arts & Humanities Research Council UK-US Partnership Development Grant awarded jointly to the the British Library, the Zooniverse, and the Library of Congress. The project is titled "From crowdsourcing to digitally-enabled participation: the state of the art in collaboration, access, and inclusion for cultural heritage institutions." Several opportunities to participate are described.
Posted in: Crowdsourcing, Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
February's monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, Digital Preservation, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Research, Outreach and Events, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
It has been just over a year since we kicked off a deep dive into the Library of Congress Web Archives on the Signal! Now at over 2 petabytes, the web archives are a complex aggregation of interrelated web objects that make up the internet as we know it (images, text, code, audio, video, etc.). …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The Machine Learning + Libraries Summit Event Summary is now available as a downloadable report on labs.loc.gov. This document includes more detailed information about the conference proceedings. It broadly summarizes recurring themes of discussion and compiles the outputs of the small group activities.
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
This is a guest post from LC Labs Senior Innovation Specialist Laurie Allen. This is the second post in a series where we are sharing experiences from the Andrew W. Mellon-funded Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud. The series began with an introductory post. Learn about the grant on the experiments page, and see the …
Posted in: Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Data, Open Research, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Publications and Resources, Tools and Infrastructure, University Librarians
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
LC LABS LETTER A Monthly Roundup of News and Thoughts from the Library of Congress Labs Team The Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Project is HIRING! Come join the Mellon-funded Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Project as one of two digital scholarship specialists! The positions will be funded for three years and will …
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Inside the Library, Open Data, Outreach and Events, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
This is a guest post by Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal from the Digital Strategy Directorate. Leah outlines below some of the major milestones reached by the Directorate in 2019. Looking Back and Looking Forward Exciting changes are afoot for digital transformation at the Library of Congress! This post reviews some of the things we did last year …
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital scholarship, Inside the Library, Open Data, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Patrick Egan is a scholar and musician from Ireland, who served as a Kluge Fellow in Digital Studies at the Kluge Center. He has recently earned his PhD in digital humanities with ethnomusicology in at University College Cork. Patrick’s interests over the past number of years have focused on ways to creatively use descriptive data in …
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Open Data, Open Research, Tools and Infrastructure