A Monthly Roundup of News and Thoughts from the Library of Congress Labs Team Apply to be the next Innovator in Residence! The Library of Congress Innovator in Residence program is a competitive residency for outside researchers or practitioners to creatively use the Library’s digital collections. The first Innovator was data artist Jer Thorp and […]
It has been just over a year since we kicked off a deep dive into the Library of Congress Web Archives on the Signal! Now at over 2 petabytes, the web archives are a complex aggregation of interrelated web objects that make up the internet as we know it (images, text, code, audio, video, etc.). […]
Just had the pleasure of upgrading to the latest version of Creative Cloud at MPOW, and while it appeared to go smoothly I immediately had a problem with my workflow. Importing an image (jpg) into Photoshop would only show a blank white screen. The image WAS correctly rendered on the home screen, but just a […]
On Friday, September 20, 2019, the Library of Congress hosted the Machine Learning + Libraries Summit. This one-day conference convened 75 cultural heritage professionals (roughly 50 from outside the Library of Congress and 25 staff from within) to discuss the on-the-ground applications of machine learning technologies in libraries, museums, and universities. Hosting this conference was […]
This is my third guest blog post for Stanford Libraries’ Digital Library Blog at the invitation of Cathy Aster, a Product and Service Manager in Digital Library Systems and Services (DLSS) at Stanford University, who was my assigned Conversation Partner in the inaugural 2019 cohort of the Authenticity Project organized by CLIR/DLF and the HBCU […]
What’s new in library tech! Welcome to our monthly collection of fun and hopefully useful news items from our great twitter feed and wherever else we find them. This month we lead off with an invitation to meet our partner Asana at the PLA Conference. We then dive into news on two important online resources […]
The following is a guest post by Lily Huang, a 2019 Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress. Lily worked with the Library’s User Experience team to create an animated data visualization of the data flow of the Library. Coming to the Library as a Junior Fellow this summer, I was excited, but unsure what the […]
I saw this post on BoingBoing earlier today: A fascinating map of the most spoken languages in every US state besides English and Spanish and wondered what an equivalent map for Canada might look like. So I made one. Data was pulled from the 2016 Canadian Census, looking at the variable “Language spoken most often […]
This is a guest post from LC Labs Senior Innovation Specialist Laurie Allen. This is the second post in a series where we are sharing experiences from the Andrew W. Mellon-funded Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud. The series began with an introductory post. Learn about the grant on the experiments page, and see the […]
Lots of interesting research is deposited into the Stanford Digital Repository every month, but when the research is about crocodiles, you know we have to know more! While there are at least 26 species of crocodiles around today, many more forms of crocodiles have existed over the past 250 million years. Extinct crocodiles include those […]
A Monthly Roundup of News and Thoughts from the Library of Congress Labs Team The Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Project is HIRING! Come join the Mellon-funded Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Project as one of two digital scholarship specialists! The positions will be funded for three years and will assist four teams […]
The Zapier newsletter I just got had a link to this article from last year: How to Find the RSS Feed URL for Almost Any Site. It’s got some good tips for sussing out RSS feeds, but I have a couple more. I ran across two sites recently that should’ve had RSS feeds, but apparently […]
Last September I learned about a fabulous resource called Places of Residence for Accused Witches. Map of Scots women accused of witchcraft published for first time https://t.co/vOxIlv6g24 ht @ResearchBuzz Fascinating stuff! #GIS #witches #witchcraft #mapping pic.twitter.com/nOWNHiUlw4 (@ppival) September 26, 2019 At that time I didn’t realize how much work had been done using OpenRefine, one […]
What’s new in library tech! Welcome to our monthly collection of fun and hopefully useful news items from our great twitter feed and wherever else we find them. This month we offer an update about the publisher Macmillan’s library e-book throttling for libraries. We also reveal the books that defined the past decade, and also […]
Free legal representation can be hard to access in rural communities, and filing legal documents without representation can be costly and confusing. To improve access to civil legal justice for low-income community members, Wicomico Public Libraries (WPL) partnered with the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service to create a cyber legal clinic, called Legal Clinic @ YOUR […]
Welcome to our bold predictions on library tech trends for the coming year. This time we cover the fast-developing trends in privacy, the trend of abandoning late fees, and a new social media app you may not have heard of yet to reach your young Generation Z patrons. We also reveal what is in the […]
I am pleased to announce Hannah Frost’s promotion to Assistant Director for Digital Services in DLSS. In this new role, Hannah is directing all of SUL’s digitization services: the Born Digital / Forensics Lab (BDFL); the Digital Production Group (DPG) and the Stanford Media Preservation Lab (SMPL). She is also managing the newly expanded Product […]
As part of my work overseeing the Digital Production Group’s “one-off” digitization queues, which support small-batch imaging of Stanford Library materials, I have the pleasure of seeing requests come in for all sorts of needs over the course of the year. There are many that have stood out, and one in particular caught my interest […]
I’ve recently become more involved in a project to digitize historical maps held at the U of Calgary, so this article really spoke to me (thanks @achurrell!) Yukon geologists raid the archives to aid ongoing search for gold. And because it seems so often news reports like this don’t seem to include a link to […]
What’s new in library tech! Welcome to our monthly collection of fun and hopefully useful news items from our great twitter feed and wherever else we find them. This month we offer news about unique gifts for readers in case you’re a bit behind in your gift buying. We also cover some intriguing info on […]
