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Open Access | The Signal
The Open Access Books Collection: Expanding Access and Building Connections December 16, 2021 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn This is a guest post by Kristy Darby, a Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress. In March 2020, we first shared about the growing collection of open access e-books available on loc.gov.
Category: Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud
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.
Reviews in Digital Humanities
A review of the Roswell Museum Federal Art Center, a digital exploration of the early history of the Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico, directed by Sara Woodbury
Recommendations, Challenges and Opportunities for the Future of Crowdsourcing in Cultural Heritage: a White Paper
This White Paper draws on the collaboratively-written Collective Wisdom Handbook: Perspectives on crowdsourcing in cultural heritage (the Handbook), and two follow-up workshops on ‘advanced questions for crowdsourcing in cultural heritage and the digital humanities’, in addition to the research and experience of its three authors. The Collective Wisdom project aspired to synthesise expert knowledge that until this point had been unpublished, or was only available via grey literature.
Archive: December 2022 (5 Posts)
Even More Fun with File Formats! December 13, 2022 Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Marcus Nappier, and Liz Holdzkom of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division at the Library of Congress. Fun with File Formats is back with another installment! Our first two blog posts from December 2021 and June 2022 were very popular with readers of The Signal.
Archive: 2022 (62 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
Grounding iterative experimentation with LC Labs: CCHC and Machine Learning
Across the last five years, LC Labs experiments have integrated sundry perspectives and disciplines to connect people, practice, and history; from making collections more legible and discoverable through volunteer crowdsourcing efforts with Beyond Words and By the People, to developing frameworks for ethically engaging people when adopting machine learning with Humans in the Loop, to the Innovator in Residence projects Citizen DJ and Newspaper Navigator.
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.
Collaborations with Embedded Audio Metadata: Reusing Cue Chunk Data for IIIF Web Annotations
This guest post details research and preservation collaboration and is co-written by Tanya Clement at University of Texas at Austin; Sara Brumfield and Ben Brumfield at Brumfield Labs; Charles Hosale at American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress; Dave Walker at Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage; Meghan Ferriter of LC Labs; and Kate Murray of Digital Collections Management and Services at the Library of Congress.
Open Research | The Signal
Next Slide Please: 2021 Digital Strategy Summer Intern Design Sprint part I August 17, 2021 Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester This is an interview with Emily Zerrenner, Jodanna Domond, Luke Borland, and Darshni Patel, four of the seven students that joined our team during the summer of 2021. As a small group, they worked together to better understand the Library's Web Archives with the needs of researchers and data visualization artists in mind.
Archive: February 2020 (5 Posts)
New Collaboration between LC Labs, British Library, and the Zooniverse February 26, 2020 Posted by: Meghan Ferriter Announcing preliminary details for Arts & Humanities Research Council UK-US Partnership Development Grant awarded jointly to the the British Library, the Zooniverse, and the Library of Congress.
University Librarians | The Signal
The TriCollege Libraries Consortium and Digital Content January 4, 2017 Posted by: Mike Ashenfelder This is a guest post from Stefanie Ramsay, a Digital Collections Librarian at Swarthmore College, which is part of the TriCollege Libraries consortium. Consortium arrangements among libraries and archives are an increasingly popular strategy for managing the large amount of digital content they produce and for providing increased access to these important materials.
Archive: 2019 (31 Posts)
What can you find in 1.7 million phone book images? November 14, 2019 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn The Digital Content Management Section (DCM) is excited to announce the release of over 1.7 million images scanned from the Library of Congress U.S. Telephone Directory Collection. These images originate from thousands of reels of black and white microfilm held in the Main Reading Room – now available on the Library’s website. The process for getting … Posted in: Digital Content
Archive: November 2019 (6 Posts)
What can you find in 1.7 million phone book images? November 14, 2019 Posted by: Carlyn Osborn The Digital Content Management Section (DCM) is excited to announce the release of over 1.7 million images scanned from the Library of Congress U.S. Telephone Directory Collection. These images originate from thousands of reels of black and white microfilm held in the Main Reading Room – now available on the Library’s website. The process for getting … Posted in: Digital Content
Introducing the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Project
LC Labs has an exciting new project, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation! Learn about the grant on the experiments page, and see the press release here. This is a guest post from LC Labs Senior Innovation Specialist Laurie Allen. Apply in late 2019 (very soon): – Two Digital Scholarship Librarians for a two-year position working with the labs team on the CCHC project.
Archive: October 2019 (4 Posts)
Celebrating a year with By the People October 24, 2019 Posted by: Meghan Ferriter Celebrating the 1 year anniversary of By the People, the Library of Congress crowdsourcing platform that engages volunteers to explore and connect to Library of Congress collections while enhancing searchability, readability, and research use of digitized collections.
Archive: May 2019 (6 Posts)
Digital Strategy v1.1.2 Now Available May 15, 2019 Posted by: Jaime Mears In October 2018, the Library published a new digital strategy describing the Library’s objectives for digital transformation over the next five years. The strategy describes goals such as growing online collections, creating opportunities for deeper engagement, and investing in an innovation culture that supports a changing information landscape. In an effort to reflect some of … Posted in: Digital Content
Visualizing Chronicling America Data: 15 million pages of digitized historical newspapers
This is a guest post from Nathan Yarasavage, a digital projects specialist in the Serial and Government Publications Division. This week we celebrate an exciting milestone.
Archive: April 2019 (3 Posts)
Connections in Sound: Irish traditional music at AFC April 23, 2019 Posted by: Meghan Ferriter An introduction to the project "Connections In Sound" by Patrick Egan. This post outlines progress that has been made in the project to date, data sets and descriptions of how to read these data sets. Two visualizations are provided for users to browse ongoing developments in Patrick's work, and a number of links are provided for users to utilize the data from the research.
BagIt at the Library of Congress
This 10th anniversary celebration of BagIt is a guest post by Liz Madden, Digital Media Project Coordinator in the Office of the Chief Information Officer’s Platform Services Division – and contributor to BagIt’s development, adoption, and use at the Library of Congress. The BagIt File Packaging Format hit two milestones in 2018: it celebrated its tenth anniversary and in October it became an IETF 1.0 specification.
Archive: 2018 (34 Posts)
Results: 1 - 9 of 34 | Refined by: (Year) 2018 Minimal Digital Processing at the American Folklife Center December 18, 2018 Posted by: Charles Hosale This is a guest post by former American Folklife Center intern Annie Schweikert on her work to develop a minimal digital processing workflow. Annie is an MA candidate at NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program who interned at the Library of Congress American Folklife Center in the summer of 2018.
Archive: October 2018 (5 Posts)
New strategy! New crowd! New team! October 17, 2018 Posted by: Meghan Ferriter Big news! We’ll launch a crowdsourcing program at the Library of Congress on October 24. We’re asking everyone to join us as we improve discovery and access across our diverse collections through transcription and tagging.
Let’s go! Explore, transcribe, and tag at crowd.loc.gov
This is a guest post from Lauren Algee, LC Labs Senior Innovation Specialist. Connect with Lauren and her fellow crowd.loc.gov Community Managers Elaine Kamlley and Victoria Van Hyning via History Hub and on Twitter, as well as GitHub. What yet-unwritten stories lie within the pages of Clara Barton’s diaries, writings of Civil Rights pioneer Mary Church Terrell, or letters written to Abraham Lincoln?
New strategy! New crowd! New team!
Big news! We’ll launch a crowdsourcing program at the Library of Congress on October 24. We’re asking everyone to join us as we improve discovery and access across our diverse collections through transcription and tagging. The program is grounded in what we’ve learned through our previous experiences with participatory projects at the Library, including image description in Flickr and our newspaper captioning pilot Beyond Words.
Archive: August 2018 (4 Posts)
More Web Archives, Less Process August 3, 2018 Posted by: Aly DesRochers This is a guest post by Grace Thomas, a Digital Collections Specialist for the Library of Congress Web Archiving Team. The Library of Congress Digital Content Management Section is excited to announce the release of 4,240 new web archives across 43 event and thematic collections on loc.gov, our largest single release of web archives to … Posted in: Guest Posts, Web Archiving
Archive: June 2018 (1 Post)
Linking chatbots to collections for place-based storytelling June 7, 2018 Posted by: Meghan Ferriter The following is a guest post from Library of Congress Labs Innovation Intern, Charlie Moffett. In the course of crafting data-driven narratives with digital collections, he created @govislandbot and an open-source mapping tutorial. Below he shares his processes, some of the challenges he encountered, along with the code.
Archive: May 2018 (3 Posts)
Building a Southern Mosaic May 17, 2018 Posted by: Meghan Ferriter The following is a guest post from Innovation Intern Aditya Jain on his Southern Mosaic visualization. Two weeks into my LC Labs Innovation internship, I came across Rachel I. Howard’s essay Southern Mosaic on the Library of Congress website. The essay describes the story of John and Ruby Lomax, a husband and wife who made … Posted in: Digital Content, Internships and Fellowships
Building a Southern Mosaic
The following is a guest post from Innovation Intern Aditya Jain on his Southern Mosaic visualization. Two weeks into my LC Labs Innovation internship, I came across Rachel I. Howard’s essay Southern Mosaic on the Library of Congress website. The essay describes the story of John and Ruby Lomax, a husband and wife who made a 6,502 mile journey through the Southern United States in 1939 to collect folk songs for the Library of Congress’ Music Division.
Archive: March 2018 (1 Post)
Welcoming Charlie Moffett and crafting interactive, location-based narratives on the web at the Library of Congress March 30, 2018 Posted by: Meghan Ferriter In January, the LC Labs team welcomed Charlie Moffett as he kicked off his innovation internship with the Library of Congress. He’s been exploring digital collections and geospatial data and where the two might intersect to tell stories about place and change.
Rethinking LC for Robots: From Topics to Actions
Have you noticed that our LC for Robots page has a new look this month? We integrated feedback from visitors, discussion, and a card sorting exercise to consolidate resources for machine-readable access to Library of Congress digital collections. We’re looking for your feedback, but first, learn more about how we approached this redesign. In September 2017, we launched Library of Congress Labs with help from our friends in the Library’s Web Services. Bundled in the mix was our LC for Robots page.
Archive: February 2018 (5 Posts)
Rethinking LC for Robots: From Topics to Actions February 27, 2018 Posted by: Meghan Ferriter Have you noticed that our LC for Robots page has a new look this month? We integrated feedback from visitors, discussion, and a card sorting exercise to consolidate resources for machine-readable access to Library of Congress digital collections. We’re looking for your feedback, but first, learn more about how we approached this redesign.
Archive: January 2018 (8 Posts)
Iterative Collaboration at LC Labs January 31, 2018 Posted by: Jaime Mears The following is a repost of a blog post from the SAA’s Electronic Records Section: BloggERS! This post is part of the recent BloggERS series on “Collaborating Beyond the Archival Profession.” The LC Labs team works to increase the impact of Library of Congress digital collections. This includes not only the 2,500,000+ items available on loc.gov, … Posted in: Tools and Infrastructure
From Code to Colors: Working with the loc.gov JSON API
The following is a guest post by Laura Wrubel, software development librarian with George Washington University Libraries, who has joined the Library of Congress Labs team during her research leave. The Library of Congress website has an API ( “application programming interface”) which delivers the content for each web page.
Archive: 2017 (43 Posts)
Results: 1 - 9 of 43 | Refined by: (Year) 2017 Announcing Judging Panel for the Congressional Data Challenge December 20, 2017 Posted by: Meghan Ferriter Today we’re announcing the notable panel of judges who will select the winners of the Library’s ongoing Congressional Data Challenge: a competition asking participants to leverage legislative data sets on Congress.gov and other platforms to develop digital projects that analyze, interpret or share congressional data in user-friendly ways.
Archive: December 2017 (3 Posts)
Announcing Judging Panel for the Congressional Data Challenge December 20, 2017 Posted by: Meghan Ferriter Today we’re announcing the notable panel of judges who will select the winners of the Library’s ongoing Congressional Data Challenge: a competition asking participants to leverage legislative data sets on Congress.gov and other platforms to develop digital projects that analyze, interpret or share congressional data in user-friendly ways.
Archive: November 2017 (2 Posts)
Welcoming Laura Wrubel and exploring digital scholarship at the Library of Congress November 20, 2017 Posted by: Meghan Ferriter In November, the LC Labs team welcomed Laura Wrubel as she kicked off her research leave in residence with the Library of Congress. Over the next 3 months, she’ll explore digital scholarship with our team and how it might be best supported.
Welcoming Laura Wrubel and exploring digital scholarship at the Library of Congress
In November, the LC Labs team welcomed Laura Wrubel as she kicked off her research leave in residence with the Library of Congress. Over the next 3 months, she’ll explore digital scholarship with our team and how it might be best supported. We checked in with her to learn more about her goals, background, and experiences so far. LC Labs: Hi Laura, we’re so excited for you to join us! To start, would you tell us a bit more about your background?
Archive: October 2017 (5 Posts)
DC History For All: Volunteer Fair Event Summary October 3, 2017 Posted by: Meghan Ferriter On Saturday, 23 September 2017, the LC Labs team joined representatives from cultural heritage organizations, archives, libraries, and historical organizations for DC History for All: Volunteer Fair. The event matched dozens of interested volunteers with opportunities to preserve Washington, D.C. history.
Archive: September 2017 (5 Posts)
Library Launches labs.loc.gov September 19, 2017 Posted by: Meghan Ferriter Today the Library of Congress has launched labs.loc.gov as a new online space designed to empower exploration and discovery in digital collections. Library of Congress Labs will host a changing selection of experiments, projects, events and resources designed to encourage creative use of the Library’s digital collections. To help demonstrate what exciting discoveries are possible, … Posted in: Digital Content
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