We are happy to share this interview with Merci Silva-Acosta. Merci is serving as a Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) intern with the Digital Strategy Directorate in the summer of 2023. In this interview, we learn a bit about Merci’s interests and work with us at the Library. Hi Merci! It’s great to ..read more

Summer recap of activities undertaken by the LC Labs team ..read more

We are also seeking feedback from folks who are interested in using the Library’s collections as data at scale and who are asking critical questions of data, documentation, and presentation. Please get in touch with us at sandbox offers opportunities to test documentation, data transformation and management, and improve upon our efforts through further experimentation. Since hosting our , we have investigated pathways for data transformation to support large scale computational research, explicitly working to identify the required skills and infrastructure for these complex, iterative queries ..read more

LC Labs is pleased to announce the release of three new sets of digitized materials packaged as data ..read more

event recording of the CCHC Data Jam Showcase on the loc.gov website. Email us at LC-Labs@loc.gov with questions and don’t forget to Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud experiment page , Academic Technology Specialist at Stanford University Library and When a user selects a location on this interactive map, they’re presented with a sentence from a digitized book mentioning the name of that place. By contrast, Dombrowski and Nomura demonstrated the methodological challenge of filtering down the corpus to a subset of materials related to their specific research question about historic child ..read more

There are many more posts showcasing LC Labs’ work with Innovators in Residence as well as has evolved into three distinct services and an array of born digital archives, datasets, and the . We invite you explore them all, right here on , now a permanent Library program with thousands of dedicated volunteers. The efforts of the Library’s very first Innovator in Residence, data artist , now sit in company with ideas from . And numerous other investigations have explored , and other ways of using technology to help make the collections more available ..read more

The July newsletter from the LC Labs team ..read more

This is an interview with Maria Capecchi, Abigail Tick, and Joshua Ortiz Baco, three of the seven students that joined our team during the summer of 2021. As a small group, they worked together to better understand the Newspaper Navigator data set with the needs of undergraduate students in mind ..read more

This is an interview with Emily Zerrenner, Jodanna Domond, Luke Borland, and Darshni Patel, four of the seven students that joined our team during the summer of 2021. As a small group, they worked together to better understand the Library’s Web Archives with the needs of researchers and data visualization artists in mind ..read more

LC Labs’ monthly newsletter for October 2021 ..read more