On May 23, the Library of Congress hosted “#WhyWebArchiving: Preserving Internet Content for Research Use,” a virtual event that brought together Library subject experts actively involved in building web archives with researchers that have utilized the Library’s web archives in their work. The event kicked-off the 2022 Web Archiving Conference, which the Library co-hosted with […]
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Registration Now Open for IIPC’s 2022 Web Archiving Conference
We are excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2022 Web Archiving Conference! The event, which the Library of Congress is hosting in partnership with the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) will be held virtually on May 23-25, 2022. The conference is free and open to everyone with an interest in web […]
Library of Congress Opens Search for Next Innovator in Residence
The Library of Congress is looking for a creative dreamer and doer to serve as its next Innovator in Residence. Through May 2nd, 2022, the Library is inviting researchers, artists, and bold thinkers of all types to propose imaginative new experiments designed to open the Library’s vast treasure chest and connect its digital collections with […]
LC Labs Letter October 2021
LC Labs’ monthly newsletter for October 2021.
Big News about Connecting Communities Digital Initiative!
September newsletter from LC Labs, highlighting opportunities with the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative.
Review With Us: By the People and Smithsonian Transcription Center team up for crowdsourced transcription
Today’s guest post is from Caitlin Haynes, the Program Coordinator for the Smithsonian Transcription Center in Washington, D.C. You can read Caitlin’s original post from the Smithsonian here.* During the month of August 2021, we teamed up with the community managers and volunteers at By the People, the Library of Congress’s crowdsourced transcription program, to focus […]
LC Labs Letter August 2021
The monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team for August.
Reflecting on the Mary Church Terrell transcribe-a-thon with the Douglass Day team
In today’s post, By the People community manager Lauren Algee interviews members of the Douglass Day team about their February 2021 transcribe-a-thon for the Mary Church Terrell Papers. Launched in 2018, By the People is a volunteer engagement and collection enhancement program at the Library of Congress that invites the public to explore and transcribe Library of Congress digital […]
Diving into Branch Rickey: Using a dataset of crowdsourced transcriptions as a tool for open research
Today’s blog post is from Abby Shelton and Lauren Seroka, two Digital Collections Specialists in the Digital Content Management Section here at the Library of Congress. Abby and Lauren discuss their work with the University of Michigan School of Information’s Ann Arbor Data Dive earlier this year. On March 27, 1956, Branch Rickey wrote of baseball […]
LC Labs Letter: April 2021
The monthly LC Labs newsletter for April 2021.