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Web Archiving | The Signal
Results: 1 - 9 of 138 Web Archive Collections in Online Reference Resources September 30, 2026 Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer Archived websites are born-digital primary sources of our current age that offer a plethora of information literacy opportunities for educators and students alike. Explore a sample of guides created by the Library’s subject experts that feature web archive collections alongside digitized historical documents, e-books, databases, and more.
Archive: September 2026 (10 Posts)
Machine Capabilities at a Human Scale: Get to Know the Revolution Crossroads Initiative September 4, 2026 Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal For the 2026 American Semiquincentennial year, the Library of Congress is working with the Smithsonian Institution to look at how artificial intelligence technologies can help make new discoveries about history. Dubbed “Revolution Crossroads,” the initiative aims to demonstrate what AI could do to enable new insights and explorations with collections.
Category: New on loc.gov
Results: 1 - 9 of 27 New Online at the Library of Congress: September 2026 September 25, 2026 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn In our September 2026 edition of "New Online at the Library of Congress," we share updates to the Library's digital collections, datasets, web archives, and more.
Category: By the People Transcription Program
Results: 1 - 9 of 54 By the People Webinar: Exploring the Life and Death of James A. Garfield September 22, 2026 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn We warmly invite you to join staff from the Library of Congress volunteer transcription program, By the People, for a special webinar on Thursday, September 24, from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT featuring Manuscript Division historian, Michelle Krowl, as she presents “Slumbering Thunder in His Soul: Exploring the Life and Death of James A.
Category: Outreach and Events
“For the Benefit of Humankind:” The Library of Congress and AI for Libraries, Archives and Museums June 25, 2026 Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal The Library of Congress recently signed on as a founding member of an international organization devoted to exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in cultural heritage and research contexts “for the benefit of humankind.” The eighth meeting of the organization’s flagship annual conference, Fantastic Futures, is scheduled for September...
Category: Partners and Collaboration
Full Circle: Library Collaboration Leads to Significant DNA Data Storage Milestone June 15, 2026 Posted by: Vincent Coltellino This post was authored by Vincent Coltellino from the Library of Congress. Vincent leads the Library’s synthetic DNA data storage initiative, which investigates the feasibility of synthetic DNA as a high-density, scalable, and durable medium for storing the Library’s digital collections.
Digital Preservation | The Signal
Full Circle: Library Collaboration Leads to Significant DNA Data Storage Milestone June 15, 2026 Posted by: Vincent Coltellino This post was authored by Vincent Coltellino from the Library of Congress. Vincent leads the Library’s synthetic DNA data storage initiative, which investigates the feasibility of synthetic DNA as a high-density, scalable, and durable medium for storing the Library’s digital collections.
Category: Tools and Infrastructure
Announcing Library of Congress Leadership for the FADGI Still Image Working Group August 28, 2025 Posted by: Liz Tencer Hana Beckerle and Spencer Zidarich of the Library’s Collections Digitization Division (CDD) have been named as the Library of Congress co-leads for the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Still Image Working Group, effective July 1, 2025.
Guest Posts | The Signal
Fix-It+ Interview: Volunteer-powered Human-In-The-Loop transcription for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting April 9, 2026 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn We just celebrated seven years of 'By the People,' which invites virtual volunteers to transcribe historic texts, but did you know there is another crowdsourced transcription program for Library of Congress collections?
Archive: August 2026 (3 Posts)
AI Sandbox Series: A Secure Environment to Explore Artificial Intelligence at the Library August 31, 2026 Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal This post is the first in a series about the Library of Congress AI Sandbox for staff. It provides an introduction to the initiative’s goals and an overview of the types of experiments conducted so far. Future posts will feature details about experiments in text recognition and searchability, metadata and bibliographic record enhancement, and more.
Open Data | The Signal
Reflecting On a Year of Selected Datasets November 22, 2021 Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez Introduction The Selected Datasets Collection was publicly launched June 2020 as part of the Library’s ongoing efforts to support emerging data-driven styles of research.
Archive: July 2026 (6 Posts)
A Connection Between the Past and the Future: The Local History & Genealogy Web Archive July 29, 2026 Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate The Local History and Genealogy Web Archive preserves websites that help researchers trace family histories and better understand the communities where their ancestors lived.
Computational Research | The Signal
Check out: The Secret Life of GeoTIFFs August 21, 2023 Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester n October 2022, the outcomes of a 2015 experiment to geo-reference 4,998 digitized maps of the Austro-Hungarian empire were shared with the public at the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Data Jam. Check out this recent post on World's Revealed, the Library's Geography and Maps blog, to learn more about the resulting GeoTIFF files enable access to digitized historical maps.
Archive: May 2026 (2 Posts)
By the People Webinar: Volunteer to Transcribe the American Revolution in Context May 19, 2026 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn Commemorate the 250th birthday of the United States through service! Join us for a webinar on Thursday, June 4, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT to learn about The American Revolution in Context, a project of the Library of Congress volunteer transcription program, By the People. Posted in: America 250, By the People Transcription Program, Outreach and Events
Archive: April 2026 (5 Posts)
Relentless Curiosity: An Interview with Seth Langer April 16, 2026 Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez Today’s blog post is an interview with Seth Langer, a Digital Collections Technician here at the Library of Congress. You can read other interviews with digital collections staff here. Hi Seth, could you tell us a bit about what you do in the Digital Services Directorate? How would you explain your job to someone outside … Posted in: Digital Content
Archive: March 2026 (7 Posts)
Refined by: (Year) 2026; (Month) March Join us for a By the People Orientation Webinar on April 9 March 31, 2026 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn The By the People crowdsourced transcription program will host a virtual orientation webinar on Thursday, April 9, from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT. Registration is required.
Archive: January 2026 (3 Posts)
Anywhere Adventures is Hitting the Road! January 15, 2026 Posted by: Isabel Brador We’re on the hunt for two U.S. communities to include in Vivian Li’s Innovator in Residence Project, Anywhere Adventures! Visitors to the mobile experience are currently able to explore three American communities, Seattle, Chicago, and Southeastern Wyoming, through items from the Library’s digital collections and learn about the stories, people, and events that shaped everyday life in these places.
Archive: November 2025 (1 Post)
Putting the American Revolution in Context Through Transcription November 25, 2025 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn What do patriotic songs, society women’s diaries, and nautical maps have in common?
Archive: July 2025 (4 Posts)
Chronicling the Creation, Distribution, and Consumption of Media: The Mass Communications Web Archive July 2, 2025 Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate In this interview, Amber Paranick and Kelly Bennett discuss their work on the Mass Communications Archive, a collection that documents how media is created, distributed, and consumed in the digital age.
Archive: May 2025 (2 Posts)
Volunteers Leverage OCR to Transcribe Library of Congress Digital Collections May 19, 2025 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn Today’s guest post is from Lauren Algee, a Senior Digital Collections Specialist & By the People community manager at the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress launched the By the People crowdsourced transcription program in 2018. Since then, we have invited anyone to volunteer by transcribing Library of Congress digital collections through our online platform, Concordia.
Archive: April 2025 (4 Posts)
DC Chapter of AI4LAM Holds First Meeting April 16, 2025 Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez On March 20, 2025, the DC Chapter of AI4LAM held its first meeting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in downtown Washington, and Library of Congress staff were excited to take part in the event. AI4LAM is an international, collaborative community focused on advancing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in, for, and … Posted in: Digital Content
Archive: March 2025 (4 Posts)
Announcing Anywhere Adventures Locations March 31, 2025 Posted by: Isabel Brador The following is a guest post by 2025 Innovator in Residence Vivian Li, an illustrator, comics artist and web developer from Macomb, Illinois, who currently lives in Seattle. This is the second blog post in a series following Vivian’s project, Anywhere Adventures. Check out the LC Labs Anywhere Adventures experiment page to learn more about the … Posted in: Digital Content
Archive: February 2025 (1 Post)
Join the Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon on February 14 February 6, 2025 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn Today’s guest post is from Lauren Algee, a Senior Digital Collections Specialist & By the People community manager at the Library of Congress. On February 14, the Library of Congress transcription program By the People will celebrate the legacy of Frederick Douglass with a virtual transcribe-a-thon of rare books and manuscripts related to African American history.
Archive: January 2025 (4 Posts)
Celebrating Six Years of By the People January 10, 2025 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn Another incredible year made possible by volunteers Happy New Year to all our Signal blog readers and to all our By the People crowdsourced transcription program volunteers! Every year, the By the People team publishes a “happy birthday to us” blog post right here on the Signal (you can check out previous years’ editions here … Posted in: By the People Transcription Program
Archive: 2024 (33 Posts)
Results: 1 - 9 of 33 | Refined by: (Year) 2024 Many Roads Can Lead to the Same Place: An Interview with Genevieve Havemeyer-King December 31, 2024 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn Today’s blog post is an interview with Genevieve Havemeyer-King of the Digital Services Directorate here at the Library of Congress. You can read other interviews with digital collections staff here. Carlyn: Hi Gen, could you tell us a bit about what you do in the Digital Services Directorate?
Archive: December 2024 (6 Posts)
Volunteer Vignette: History is a Living Thing December 20, 2024 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews a By the People volunteer, Justin Kern, who serves as the Division Communications Director for the American Red Cross. By the People is a crowdsourced transcription program launched in 2018 at the Library of Congress. Volunteer-created transcriptions are used to make digitized collections more accessible and discoverable on loc.gov.
Archive: November 2024 (4 Posts)
Updated FADGI Resource: Significant Properties for Digital Video November 14, 2024 Posted by: Liz Tencer The Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Audiovisual Working Group has released a revised version of its popular resource, Significant Properties for Digital Video.
Archive: October 2024 (3 Posts)
Transcribe Theodore Roosevelt’s Papers Online at the Library of Congress October 24, 2024 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn October 27th marks Theodore Roosevelt’s 166th birthday and we’re hoping you can help us celebrate the occasion! Yesterday, the By the People crowdsourced transcription program released over 20,000 new pages of TR’s papers into crowd.loc.gov.
Archive: June 2024 (6 Posts)
FADGI News: Recap of Recent Projects and Publications June 13, 2024 Posted by: Liz Tencer The Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) AudioVisual Working Group has returned to a schedule of two hybrid meetings a year, in addition to virtual working subgroup meetings as needed.
Archive: April 2024 (2 Posts)
A New Resource to Explore Library of Congress Transcription Datasets April 11, 2024 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn Today’s guest post is from Madeline Goebel, a Digital Collections Specialist at the Library of Congress. As a reader of the Signal, you may already be familiar with By the People, the Library of Congress’s crowdsourcing program that allows volunteers to transcribe, review, and tag digitized pages from the Library’s collections.
Archive: March 2024 (3 Posts)
An Outpouring of Love for Douglass Day 2024 March 7, 2024 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn Today’s guest post is from Lauren Algee, a Senior Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section and a By the People community manager.** Douglass Day 2024 marked the busiest day in the history of By the People, the Library of Congress’s crowdsourced transcription program.
Archive: February 2024 (2 Posts)
What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: February 2024 February 16, 2024 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’ digital collections? The Signal shares updates on new additions to our digital collections and we love showing off all the hard work of our colleagues from across the Library. Read on for a sample of what’s been added recently and some of our favorite … Posted in: New on loc.gov
Archive: December 2023 (5 Posts)
Celebrating 5 Years of By the People December 21, 2023 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn It’s that time again: another By the People anniversary! By the People (BtP), the Library of Congress crowdsourced transcription program, is taking a moment this winter to look back on how we’ve grown and celebrate our 5th year! As we’ve shared in earlier birthday celebrations, BtP was originally incubated in 2018 by the LC Labs team and … Posted in: By the People Transcription Program
Archive: 2023 (48 Posts)
Results: 1 - 9 of 48 | Refined by: (Year) 2023 What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: 2023 Wrap-Up! December 31, 2023 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn Happy 2024 to all of our Signal subscribers! In this special edition of “What’s New Online at the Library of Congress,” we’re looking back on some of our new digital collections releases in 2023. Do you have a favorite digital collection or item at the Library?
Archive: November 2023 (6 Posts)
Strategic Plan 2.0: A Digitally-Infused Five-Year Plan November 8, 2023 Posted by: Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal For decades, digital technologies have rewritten the playbook for government agencies, libraries, and cultural heritage organizations. The Library of Congress has investigated, implemented, and even invented new digital approaches and technical methods since the 1950s, aspiring better to serve Congress and the American people with each new technical turn.
Archive: September 2023 (2 Posts)
Reflections on the 2023 Web Archiving Conference September 6, 2023 Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate Today’s guest post is from Abbie Grotke (Assistant Head of the Digital Content Management section), Grace Bicho (Senior Digital Collections Specialist), Lauren Baker (Senior Digital Collections Specialist), and Abbey Potter (Senior Innovation Specialist), all from the Library of Congress.
Archive: July 2023 (3 Posts)
Centering Digital Collection Users: An Interview with Lauren Algee July 18, 2023 Posted by: Trevor Owens I’m excited to share this interview with Lauren Algee, one of my colleagues in the Digital Services Directorate here at the Library of Congress. My hope that interviews like this help to spread awareness about the background, experience, and interests of the people that support the Library of Congress. Along with that, I think it’s … Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Interviews
Archive: June 2023 (7 Posts)
Supporting Social-Emotional Learning Activities with “By the People” Transcriptions June 22, 2023 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn Today’s guest post is from Annette Nakshbendi, a Librarian-in-Residence in the Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress. How might a Library of Congress digital resource spark classroom discussion that reaches beyond a primary source’s content and context? You may have used the Library’s digital collections to help history “come alive” for students.
Archive: May 2023 (6 Posts)
Refined by: (Year) 2023; (Month) May New FADGI Project: Researching Accessibility in Open-Source Digital Preservation Applications May 30, 2023 Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate This is a guest post from Chris Lacinak, Founder and CEO of AVP, and Kate Murray, Digital Projects Coordinator in Digital Collections Management and Services at the Library of Congress.
Archive: April 2023 (2 Posts)
Translating “Home,” “Index,” and “Welcome to Our Website” in 50 Different Languages: An Interview with Rick Fitzgerald April 26, 2023 Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate Rick Fitzgerald contributed to the Library's web archiving program for over fifteen years as a cataloger and metadata expert.
Archive: March 2023 (2 Posts)
What’s new online at the Library of Congress – March 2023 March 31, 2023 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’ digital collections? The Signal shares semi-regular updates of new additions to publicly available digital collections and we love showing off all the hard work of our colleagues from across the Library. Read on for a sample of what’s been added recently and some of … Posted in: New on loc.gov
Archive: February 2023 (3 Posts)
Volunteer Vignette: Transcribing Spanish history February 23, 2023 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews a By the People volunteer, Claude, who has gone above and beyond! By the People is a crowdsourced transcription program launched in 2018 at the Library of Congress. Volunteer-created transcriptions are used to make digitized collections more accessible and discoverable on loc.gov. You can read our other Volunteer Vignettes on the Signal here and here.
Introducing the new EPUB reader for e-books at the Library of Congress
Today’s guest post is from Kristy Darby, a Digital Collections Specialist at the Library of Congress. The Open Access Books Collection on loc.gov includes approximately 6,000 contemporary open access e-books covering a wide range of subjects, including history, music, poetry, technology, and works of fiction. All books in this collection were published under open access licenses, meaning the e-books are available to use and reuse according to the terms of the licenses.
Archive: January 2023 (2 Posts)
What’s new online at the Library of Congress – January 2023 January 26, 2023 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’ digital collections? The Signal shares semi-regular updates of new additions to publicly available digital collections and we love showing off all the hard work of our colleagues from across the Library. Read on for a sample of what’s been added recently and some … Posted in: New on loc.gov
What’s new online at the Library of Congress - January 2023
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’ digital collections? The Signal shares semi-regular updates of new additions to publicly available digital collections and we love showing off all the hard work of our colleagues from across the Library. Read on for a sample of what’s been added recently and some of our favorite highlights. Click here for previous updates.
Archive: November 2022 (4 Posts)
Celebrating Four Years of By the People November 7, 2022 Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate Today’s guest post is from Abby Shelton, a Digital Collections Specialist and By the People Community Manager in the Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress. Happy fourth birthday to By the People! To celebrate we are highlighting some of the best parts of the last year. Interested in our previous anniversary posts? Check out … Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Guest Posts
What’s new online at the Library of Congress - Thanksgiving 2022
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’ digital collections? The Signal now shares out semi-regularly about new additions to publicly-available digital collections and we can’t wait to show off all the hard work from our colleagues from across the Library. Read on for a sample of what’s been added recently and some of our favorite highlights. Click here for previous updates.
Archive: September 2022 (6 Posts)
Summer Suffrage Transcription Challenge Wrap-up September 27, 2022 Posted by: Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez Today’s guest post is from Abby Shelton, a Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section and a Community Manager for the By the People crowdsourced transcription program.
What’s new online at the Library of Congress - Fall 2022
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’ digital collections? The Signal now shares out semi-regularly about new additions to publicly-available digital collections and we can’t wait to show off all the hard work from our colleagues from across the Library. Read on for a sample of what’s been added recently and some of our favorite highlights. Visit here for previous updates.
Archive: August 2022 (4 Posts)
Volunteer Vignette: The Youngstown State University Transcribing Club August 25, 2022 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews By the People volunteer and Youngstown State University student Julie Centofanti who has gone above and beyond! Julie started a Transcribing Club at YSU in 2020 to help fellow students fulfill a service requirement, build community, and have fun.
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