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Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The Library has introduced the beta Congress.gov API. We are very excited about this release and a great deal of hard work, behind the scenes has gone on this year to enable this to happen.
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
LC Labs Letter for August 2022.
Posted in: Digital Content, Labs Letter
Posted by: Meghan Ferriter
Collaborative editing and preservation capabilities enabled by an emerging open source workflow and updated preservation guidelines? More on a pilot of annotation approaches with AudioAnnotate Audiovisual Extensible Workflow, FADGI and BWF MetaEdit, and American Folklife Center collections in this post.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, FADGI, Formats, Open Access, Open Research
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
Natalie Coté and Amy Snyder are 2022 Junior Fellows in the Digital Collections Management and Services Division (DCMS) working under the mentorship of Digital Collections Specialist, Marcus Nappier. DIRSA (Distribuidora Internacional De Revistas S.A.) is a collection of Latin American journals purchased by the Library that DCM has made accessible in Stacks. Could you share …
Posted in: Digital Content, Internships and Fellowships
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
Amy Snyder and Natalie Coté are 2022 Junior Fellows in the Digital Collections Management and Services Division (DCMS) working under the mentorship of Digital Collections Specialist, Marcus Nappier. DIRSA (Distribuidora Internacional De Revistas S.A.) is a collection of Latin American journals purchased by the Library that DCM has made accessible in Stacks. Could you share …
Posted in: Digital Content, Internships and Fellowships
Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
Dan Hockstein and Mari Allison are 2022 Junior Fellows in the Digital Collections Management and Services Division (DCMS) working under the mentorship of Kate Murray. Over the course of our Junior Fellowship this summer, we have focused on a variety of streams of work around the Library of Congress’ Sustainability of Digital Formats website. The …
Posted in: Digital Content, Internships and Fellowships
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The new “Exploring Chronicling America Newspapers” application dynamically maps publication locations of over 3,000 digitized newspapers currently available in the Chronicling America online collection.
Posted in: Digital Content, Guest Posts, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The LC Labs team's June newsletter focuses on data and libraries.
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Education and Training, Labs Letter
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The following blog post is a conversation between Eileen J. Manchester of LC Labs and Peter DeCraene, the 2020-2022 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress. Eileen and Peter reflect on how messy, yet rewarding, it is to think of library collections as data in a classroom educational setting.
Posted in: Digital Content, Internships and Fellowships