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. Are you a file format fan? If you’re curious how to pronounce the still image format HEIF (spoiler alert: it rhymes with “beef”) or the difference between PDF/A-3 and PDF/A-4, […]
Category: digital preservation
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?”
A look at FADGI with Librarian-in-Residence Hana Beckerle
Today’s guest post is from Hana Beckerle, a 2021 Librarian-in-Residence at the Library of Congress. I graduated with my MSLIS from Catholic University of America (CUA) in May 2021 and joined the Library’s Digitization Services Section (DSS) as a Librarian-in-Residence in June. While at CUA, I worked as an Electronic Resources Assistant at the University […]
UCLA Digital Library Program & UC3 Collaborate to Reaffirm a Preservation Solution for the Strachwitz Frontera Collection
UCLA has long collaborated with the Arhoolie Foundation to provide digital access to and enable the preservation of the world’s largest known musical collection of…
That’s Our Cue! Updates for the FADGI Embedded Metadata Guidelines and BWF MetaEdit for the Cue Chunk in Broadcast Wave Files
This is guest post, the first in a series of updates about the recent work of the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Audio-Visual working group, is co-authored by Kate Murray, Digital Projects Coordinator in Digital Collections Management and Services, audiovisual archivist and technologist Dave Rice, and Jérôme Martinez, Founder and President of MediaArea.net. The […]
Next Slide Please: 2021 Digital Strategy Summer Intern Design Sprint part I
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.
Themes for Digital Preservation
By: Eric Lopatin Since our inception, a main focus of UC3 has been to deliver high quality, reliable digital preservation services for the UC community.…
A Peek Into 2021 for UC3
By: The UC3 Team Across the UC3 team, we specialize in topics in digital curation, digital preservation, and open research. We manage a range of…
LC Labs Letter: December 2020
December’s monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team.
That’s a wrap! 2020 Staff Innovator detail comes to a close
A reflection on the 2020 Staff Innovator detail from an LC Labs team member, shared in the hopes that some of the lessons we learned from this cross-institutional partnership may be applicable to other institutions and interesting to our readers!