LC Labs Letter September issue.
Category: computational research
LC Labs is Celebrating Five Years!
LC Labs turns 5!
Why Web Archiving?: A Conversation with Web Archivists and Researchers
On May 23, the Library of Congress hosted “#WhyWebArchiving: Preserving Internet Content for Research Use,” a virtual event that brought together Library subject experts actively involved in building web archives with researchers that have utilized the Library’s web archives in their work. The event kicked-off the 2022 Web Archiving Conference, which the Library co-hosted with […]
LC Labs Letter: Data and Libraries
The LC Labs team’s June newsletter focuses on data and libraries.
An Introduction to Born Digital Collections at the Manuscript Division, or How to Cross the Equator
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. […]
Candidates, Campaigns, and CDX Files: A New United States Elections Web Archive Dataset
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 […]
LC Labs Letter: March 2022
March 2022 newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud: Expert Researchers Share Their Outcomes
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 […]
LC Labs Letter January 2022
The monthly LC Labs newsletter for January 2022.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a…derivative dataset!
This post describes a collaboration between LC Labs member Eileen J. Manchester and Peter DeCraene, the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow to answer the question: “what would it mean to treat a dataset as a primary source?”