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Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The monthly LC Labs newsletter for April 2021.
Posted in: Computational Research, Data Librarianship, Digital Content, digital humanities, Education and Training, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Trevor Owens
Three years ago, I shared out some news about the newly created Digital Content Management Section. Our unit was just starting up and we had a lot in store for our future that I wanted to talk about on this blog. Coming up on the third anniversary of that post, presents an opportunity to reflect …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The monthly LC Labs newsletter for March 2021.
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
An overview of the Humans in the Loop experiment to explore ways to responsibly combine crowdsourcing experiences and machine learning workflows.
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Research, Digital Content, Open Research, Partners and Collaboration
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 …
Posted in: Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Digital Content
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
The monthly LC Labs newsletter for February 2021.
Posted in: Digital Content
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 …
Posted in: Digital Content
Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
Last year, LC Labs worked with partners across the Library and outside its walls to advance the Digital Strategy. Here’s a look back at some of our work on the strategy’s goals of opening the treasure chest, connecting, and investing in our future, and a preview of this year’s plans. In the coming year, we …
Posted in: Digital Content