During the COVID-19 pandemic it was regularly highlighted how the pandemic would create an opportunity for virtual/digital innovation and a reset of established ways of working. Reflecting on research carried out at the height of the pandemic, Sonja Ma…
Category: digital scholarship
Observer, Connector, Promoter, Influencer – How to leverage social media to be an open academic
To be an open researcher is more than simply openly sharing research papers. Marcel Bogers and Ian McCarthy draw on their research on open practices in business research to outline four ways of leveraging social media to be more ‘open’ as a researcher,…
Book Review: Digital Lethargy: Disparities from An Age of Disconnection by Tung-Hui Hu
In Digital Lethargy: Disparities from An Age of Disconnection, Tung-Hui Hu explores digital lethargy as the burnout, exhaustion and restlessness experienced under digital capitalism. Neo Yee Win recommends this thought-provoking and innovative book to …
LC Labs Letter: December 2022
Cross post of the Labs December newsletter on CCHC data sandbox and initiative progress.
Grounding iterative experimentation with LC Labs: CCHC and Machine Learning
Across the last five years, LC Labs experiments have integrated sundry perspectives and disciplines to connect people, practice, and history; from making collections more legible and discoverable through volunteer crowdsourcing efforts with Beyond Words and By the People, to developing frameworks for ethically engaging people when adopting machine learning with Humans in the Loop, to …
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.
LC Labs is Celebrating Five Years!
LC Labs turns 5!
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. […]