Datasets as Primary Sources, Part II
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
Part 2 of an ongoing occasional series about using datasets as primary sources.
Posted in: Digital Content, Education and Training
Category: Digital Content
An Introduction to Born Digital Collections at the Manuscript Division, or How to Cross the Equator
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
The following guest post by Josh Levy, Historian of Science and Technology in the Library’s Manuscript Division, is part two of a series. You can find Part 1 of the series, “Doing History with Born Digital Files: the Rhoda Métraux and Edward Lorenz Papers,” posted on The Signal. Archives can’t just collect physical objects anymore. …
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Formats, Partners and Collaboration
Candidates, Campaigns, and CDX Files: A New United States Elections Web Archive Dataset
Posted by: Tracee Haupt
This blog post was co-authored by Chase Dooley (Senior Digital Collections Specialist) and Tracee Haupt (Digital Collections Specialist), members of the Library’s Web Archiving Team. The Library’s Web Archiving Team recently released a derivative dataset that describes the United States Elections Web Archive, a collection that preserves over twenty years of campaign websites for candidates …
Posted in: Computational Research, Digital Content, Open Data, Web Archiving
Introducing Marya McQuirter, CCDI Program Director
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
This post is cross-posted from the Library blog Of the People: Widening the Path. We are delighted to introduce Marya McQuirter, the new program director for the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI). CCDI is a four-year program encouraging creative uses of the Library’s digital collections to center the histories, lives and experiences of Black, Indigenous …
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Access More than 100,000 CIP e-Books Onsite at the Library of Congress
Posted by: Trevor Owens
If you have looked up an e-book in the Library of Congress catalog in the past year, you might have noticed that a range of catalog records for e-books now include links to something called Stacks. And even if you haven’t had the occasion to, I’ve provided a screenshot of one below – the catalog …
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Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud: Expert Researchers Share Their Outcomes
Posted by: Olivia Dorsey
LC Labs’ Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) initiative explores pathways for the Library to deliver its digital collections at scale, using a cloud computing environment. You can read more in previous posts about the initiative. Earlier this year, LC Labs worked with three research fellows in digital history, digital art history, and software librarianship …
Posted in: Computational Research, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Digital Content, digital humanities
Datasets as Primary Sources: An Archaeological Dig into Our Collective Brains, Part 1
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
In this guest post, Educator Fellow Peter DeCraene reflects on how teachers can make use of data sets in the classroom.
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Digital Content, Education and Training
Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud: An Interview with Khadijah Camp
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
We are so pleased to introduce Khadijah Camp, who has joined us temporarily from the Library Collections Service Group’s Employee Resources Management & Planning Team. She is working as an Innovation Specialist on the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) initiative. CCHC is supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. …
Posted in: Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Digital Content
Library of Congress Digital Collections Strategy Published
Posted by: Trevor Owens
The following is co-authored with Joe Puccio, the Library of Congress Collection Development Officer. Digital collections, and the work related to their acquisition, preservation and access, have become increasingly central to Library of Congress processes and our mission to serve Congress and the nation. For the last five years, in accordance with the Library of …
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