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.
Category: computational research
LC Labs Letter: July 2021
The July newsletter from the LC Labs team.
LC Labs Welcomes Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) Researchers!
Special issue of the Labs Letter welcoming a cohort of researchers to the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) initiative.
LC Labs Letter: April 2021
The monthly LC Labs newsletter for April 2021.
Stay “in the loop” with LC Labs experiment combining crowdsourcing and machine learning
An overview of the Humans in the Loop experiment to explore ways to responsibly combine crowdsourcing experiences and machine learning workflows.
LC Labs Letter: December 2020
December’s monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
LC Labs Letter: November 2020
November’s monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
An Archivist’s Perspective on Legacy Files
In this post, 2020 Staff Innovator Chad Conrady discusses his area of expertise, emulation, which imitates older operating systems in order to open outdated or legacy files that are no longer operable with contemporary operating systems or software.
LC for Robots in Action: using the API to access the Federal Theatre Project collection
The following is a guest post by Derek Miller, Harvard University, and Elizabeth Brown, a reference librarian in the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress. In it, they discuss how Brown helped Miller access LC for Robots resources that helped him gain enhanced access to Library of Congress digital collections used in his research.
LC Labs Letter: October 2020
October’s monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.