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Curating as Artistic Act: Selecting Items for Speculative Annotation

Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal

The following is a guest post by the 2021 Innovator in Residence Courtney McClellan, a research-based artist who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. With a subject focus on speech and civic engagement, McClellan works in a range of media including sculpture, performance, photography, and writing. Courtney’s Residency initiative “Speculative Annotation” will be an experimental browser-based application that …

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Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud: An Interview with Olivia Dorsey

Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal

We’re thrilled to share that Olivia Dorsey recently joined the LC Labs team as an Innovation Specialist! Olivia will be working on the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) initiative at the Library. The CCHC initiative is supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Centered in LC Labs, the project …

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Doing History with Born Digital Files: the Rhoda Métraux and Edward Lorenz Papers

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 …