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Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
The Library of Congress has published the 2024-2025 Recommended Formats Statement. Updates, all captured in a Change Log, include support for digital accessibility features as a criterion for evaluating digital formats, an FAQ to address user feedback and adjustments to preferred and accepted formats across multiple content categories.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
This post is the most recent in a series about file format research for the Sustainability of Digital Formats site at the Library of Congress, including many new format descriptions across multiple content categories. In addition, the post provides details about a new effort to document digital accessibility features in formats included in the Recommended Formats Statement.
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Formats, Guest Posts, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Madeline Goebel, a Digital Collections Specialist at the Library of Congress. As a reader of the Signal, you may already be familiar with By the People, the Library of Congress’s crowdsourcing program that allows volunteers to transcribe, review, and tag digitized pages from the Library’s collections. Further, you may already know …
Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Genevieve Havemeyer-King, a Senior Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Collections Management and Services Division. “Development is maintenance.” Brian Marick, “Agile Manifesto” co-author This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Digital Collections Management Compendium’s public debut on loc.gov. The Digital Collections Management and Services Division officially launched the Compendium …
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
Technologist Ashley Blewer is using the format description document XML files to gather data across all FDDs. She has pulled this data into data visualization tools which allow us to see what categories our FDDs fall into and how many FDDs are being updated (by category, each year). These visualizations help the formats team to identify issues and streamline internal review and update processes.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
This post is part of the semi-annual blog series on file format research for the Sustainability of Digital Formats site at the Library of Congress, and provides updates on new and updated file format description documents.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Eileen J. Manchester
LC Labs has been developing a planning framework to support the responsible exploration and potential adoption of AI at the Library.
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Laurie Allen
Why Machine Learning? Everyone at the Library of Congress wants the materials we steward and the services we offer to be useful for as many people as possible. It’s why we do what we do! And across the Library, staff have long relied on technological innovations to enable people to use our materials to become …
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud, Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Jaime Mears
This post was co-written with LC writer and editor Sahar Kazmi. Relational Reconstruction Toolkit Now Available For the past year, Innovator in Residence Jeffrey Yoo Warren worked with LC staff, collections and community members to develop an open source “relational reconstruction” toolkit to share his methodology and inspire the public to reconstruct other lost enclaves …
Posted in: Asian American History, Innovator in Residence, Personal Archiving, Tools and Infrastructure