The following is a guest post by 2023 Innovator in Residence Jeffrey Yoo Warren, an artist and educator who lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Yoo Warren will work with Library of Congress staff and collections to digitally reconstruct Providence’s historic Chinatown using 3D and virtual reality technologies. He will repeat the process for another historic […]
Category: Digital Content
LC Labs Letter: December 2022
Cross post of the Labs December newsletter on CCHC data sandbox and initiative progress.
Now Playing: the CCHC Data Jam!
Sharing the CCHC data jam event recording and summary of an engaging set of discussions on the complexities of accessing and analyzing digital cultural materials as datasets.
Announcing LC Labs Data Sandbox and 3 New Data Packages
LC Labs is pleased to announce the release of three new sets of digitized materials packaged as data.
Do volunteer transcriptions improve search and discovery in loc.gov?
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. How do people use crowdsourced transcriptions? Do they drive increased traffic and engagement to our digital collections? What kinds of activity do transcriptions of handwritten documents facilitate? […]
Accessing Our Digital Past in the Manuscript Division Reading Room
In this guest post, Kathleen O’Neill, Senior Archives Specialist in the Manuscript Division, announces the launch of a new workstation in the Library’s Manuscript Division reading room.
Performing Arts in the Coronavirus Web Archive: Part 4
This post was originally written by Melissa Wertheimer, a Music Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress, for In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog. In Part 1 of this series, I walked readers through Coronavirus Web Archive items within the theme of financial relief efforts in the performing arts. Part 2 of this series highlighted collection items related to medical and public health […]
FADGI’s embARC Now Supports FFV1!
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Digital Projects Coordinator in Digital Collections Management and Services at the Library of Congress and Bertram Lyons, Partner at AVP. FADGI (Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative) is pleased to announce a new release of its free open source application embARC with support for FFV1 encoding. embARC, short for […]
LC Labs Letter: September 2022
LC Labs Letter September issue.
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 […]