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Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Liz Caringola, Genevieve Havemeyer-King and Liz Holdzkom of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division at the Library of Congress. Happy new and updated FDDs (format description documents) to all who celebrate! It’s time for one of our favorite holiday traditions – an update about recent file format […]
Today’s guest post is from Genevieve Havemeyer-King of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division at the Library of Congress. Even for those who aren’t movie buffs, the vibrant covers of Cine-Mundial never fail to snag one’s attention, and who could deny the pleasure of watching the evolution of the celebrity magazine unfold over 25 years […]
This is a guest post written by Kailyn Slater, a 2025 Junior Fellow in the Web Archiving Section. How can the Library represent the presence of mass communications, as a broad field of theory and practice, on the web? How do we know what is worth preserving? What sources will be impactful for communications workers, […]
Today’s guest post is from Heather Alvord, Liz Caringola, Liz Holdzkom, Genevieve Havemeyer-King and Kate Murray of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division and Ted Westervelt, Chief, US/Anglo Division at the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statement (RFS) is well into its second decade, having first launched in 2014. It […]
In this interview, Amber Paranick and Kelly Bennett discuss their work on the Mass Communications Archive, a collection that documents how media is created, distributed, and consumed in the digital age. Drawing on their expertise as reference librarians, they explain how they navigated challenges in scope and selected content that complements the Library’s more traditionally […]
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Liz Caringola, Genevieve Havemeyer-King and Liz Holdzkom of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division at the Library of Congress. This is the eighth installment of our File Format Friends series! You can start at the very beginning with Fun with File Formats from December 2021 and work […]
In this interview, Charlotte Giles discusses the Maldives Government Web Archive — how it was created, what it preserves, and why it is an important addition to the Library’s Asian Division. She shares examples of how the archive captures the unique perspective of an island nation and explains why collecting materials from the Maldives is […]
Earlier this year, the Library of Congress and our web harvest vendor MirrorWeb presented research on website archivability at the 2024 Web Archiving Conference at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. The presentation was part of a panel called “Can we capture this?’: Assessing Website Archivability Beyond Trial and Error,” which was moderated by Martin Klein (Pacific […]
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Genevieve Havemeyer-King, Marcus Nappier, Liz Caringola and Liz Holdzkom of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division at the Library of Congress. This year we added two new staff to the Formats team, who have been assisting with format research, FDD updates, and other maintenance activities throughout the year. Welcome […]
Today’s guest post is from Liz Holdzkom, Marcus Nappier, Genevieve Havemeyer-King and Kate Murray of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division and Ted Westervelt, Chief, US/Anglo Division at the Library of Congress. The Recommended Formats Statement (RFS) is now entering its second decade since it was first launched in 2014. Suffice to say, it […]
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, […]
Before I joined LC Labs, I was an English teacher. In my classroom, the word “derivative” had a negative connotation. To be derivative was to be overly indebted to another idea and thus to lack ingenuity and creativity. When applied to datasets, however, “derivatives” abound. In fact, as you’ll see, derivative datasets sometimes serve a […]
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 […]
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. Fig. […]
This summer, the Digital Strategy Directorate, home to LC Labs, hosted seven interns working on projects to broaden the reach and potential impact of our initiatives. This is the first of two interviews with the 2021 summer cohort discussing a group activity they undertook in teams. In this post, I sit down with Emily Zerrenner, […]
December 2020 LC LABS LETTERA Monthly Roundup of News and Thoughts from the Library of Congress Labs Team Our Projects Can the Library of Congress Labs team interview you? Would you or someone you know be willing to (virtually) sit down with us for a 1-on-1 interview? We are looking for people to take part in […]
The 2020 Staff Innovator project brought together two different parts of the Library of Congress—the Library Collections and Services Group (LCSG) and the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). LCSG sponsored a 120-day detail that temporarily placed a staff member from LCSG in my team, LC Labs to work together on a problem that […]
November 2020 LC LABS LETTERA Monthly Roundup of News and Thoughts from the Library of Congress Labs Team Our Projects It’s not too late: apply to be a CCHC researcher today! The call for researchers to work with Library collections at scale as part of the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud (CCHC) project is […]
This is a guest post by Chad Conrady, Archives Specialist in the Manuscript Division. Alongside Senior Archives Specialist Kathleen O’Neill, Chad is a 2020 Staff Innovator working on the project Born Digital Access Now! In previous blog posts, Chad and Kathleen have shared publicly about their project, whose central aim is to research and understand […]
Kathleen O’Neill is a 2020 Staff Innovator with LC Labs and a Senior Archives Specialist in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. She’s shared about Born Digital Access Now!, her Staff Innovator project, in previous posts. In this post, she discusses her analysis of the various file formats in the Manuscript Division’s born-digital […]
