“Volun-peers” Help Liberate Smithsonian Digital Collections
Scan of Chamaenerion Latifolium. US National Herbarium, Smithsonian. The Smithsonian Transcription Center creates indexed, searchable text by means of crowdsourcing…or as Meghan Ferriter, project...
View ArticleThe TriCollege Libraries Consortium and Digital Content
Swarthmore College. Photo by Stefanie Ramsay. This is a guest post from Stefanie Ramsay, a Digital Collections Librarian at Swarthmore College, which is part of the TriCollege Libraries consortium....
View ArticleThe Keepers Registry: Ensuring the Future of the Digital Scholarly Record
Humanités Numériques, on Wikimedia by Calvinius: http://bit.ly/2jacCXv. This is a guest post by Ted Westervelt, section head in the Library of Congress’s US Arts, Sciences & Humanities Division....
View ArticleLots of Transfer Collectives Keep Cultural Memory Safe: The Importance of...
This is a guest post collectively written by the XFR Collective (pronounced “transfer collective”), a grass-roots digitization and digital-preservation organization. They work with artists and media...
View ArticleSpotlighting Research Data: Building Relationships with Outreach for the NYU...
This is a guest post by Nicole Contaxis, Data Catalog Coordinator at NYU Health Sciences Library. You can email her at nicole.contaxis@nyumc.org. Screenshot of the NYU Data Catalog Homepage. An...
View ArticleThe University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab
Screenshot of American Panorama website. In November, 2016, staff from the Library of Congress’s National Digital Initiatives division visited the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab as...
View ArticleHack-to-Learn at the Library of Congress
When hosting workshops, such as Software Carpentry, or events, such as Collections As Data, our National Digital Initiatives team made a discovery—there is an appetite among librarians for hands-on...
View ArticleWelcoming Jer Thorp as Innovator-in-Residence
Starting this week, acclaimed data artist Jer Thorp began his tenure as the 2017 Library of Congress Innovator-in-Residence. He will spend six months with the National Digital Initiatives team...
View ArticleDC History For All: Volunteer Fair Event Summary
On Saturday, 23 September 2017, the LC Labs team joined representatives from cultural heritage organizations, archives, libraries, and historical organizations for DC History for All: Volunteer Fair....
View ArticleOctober Innovator-in-Residence Update
Library of Congress Innovator-in-Residence, Jer Thorp, has started diving into the collections at the Library. We’ve rounded up some of his activities in October and how he is sharing his process in...
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