LC Labs Letter September issue.
Category: Digital Content
Summer Suffrage Transcription Challenge Wrap-up
Today’s guest post is from Abby Shelton, a Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section. By the People volunteers completed over 9,000 pages this summer to meet our summer suffrage challenge! Our aim was to finish reviewing transcriptions for the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the Blackwell Family Papers campaigns. And […]
Q&A with Laurie Allen, new Chief of LC Labs
Interview with Laurie Allen, recently announced Chief of LC Labs.
LC Labs is Celebrating Five Years!
LC Labs turns 5!
Introducing the congress.gov API
The Library has introduced the beta Congress.gov API. We are very excited about this release and a great deal of hard work, behind the scenes has gone on this year to enable this to happen.
LC Labs Letter: Recap of 2022 Summer Fellow Projects
LC Labs Letter for August 2022.
Collaborations with Embedded Audio Metadata: Reusing Cue Chunk Data for IIIF Web Annotations
Collaborative editing and preservation capabilities enabled by an emerging open source workflow and updated preservation guidelines? More on a pilot of annotation approaches with AudioAnnotate Audiovisual Extensible Workflow, FADGI and BWF MetaEdit, and American Folklife Center collections in this post.
Diving into Digital Ephemera: Identifying Defunct URLs in the Web Archives
This is a guest post written by Olivia Meehan, a 2022 Junior Fellow working with the Web Archiving Team. Her project was completed under the mentorship of Lauren Baker. If you follow a link referenced in an article just to hit a dead-end, “page not found” error message – you have experienced link rot. “Link […]
Reviewing Inconsistencies, Inaccuracies, and Issues in Digital Journal Files: An Interview with Junior Fellow Natalie Coté
Natalie Coté and Amy Snyder are 2022 Junior Fellows in the Digital Collections Management and Services Division (DCMS) working under the mentorship of Digital Collections Specialist, Marcus Nappier. DIRSA (Distribuidora Internacional De Revistas S.A.) is a collection of Latin American journals purchased by the Library that DCM has made accessible in Stacks. Could you share […]
Improving Metadata for Digital Journals Access: An Interview with Junior Fellow Amy Snyder
Amy Snyder and Natalie Coté are 2022 Junior Fellows in the Digital Collections Management and Services Division (DCMS) working under the mentorship of Digital Collections Specialist, Marcus Nappier. DIRSA (Distribuidora Internacional De Revistas S.A.) is a collection of Latin American journals purchased by the Library that DCM has made accessible in Stacks. Could you share […]