The Signal: Digital Preservation

Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’ digital collections? The Signal shares updates on new additions to our digital collections and we love showing off a...

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/04/new-loc-april-2024/

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 ...

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/04/explore-transcription-datasets/

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...

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/03/stayin-alive/

The following is a guest post by Library of Congress Innovator in Residence Jeffrey Yoo Warren in conversation with interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker Evelyn Hang Yin. “Relational reconstru...

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/03/relational-reconstruction-of-hanford-cas-china-alley-with-artist-evelyn-hang-yin/

Today’s guest post is from Lauren Algee, a Senior Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section and a By the People community manager.** Douglass Day 2024 marked the ...

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/03/douglass-day-2024/

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 cat...

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/02/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-data-points/

Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’ digital collections? The Signal shares updates on new additions to our digital collections and we love showing off all...

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/02/new-loc-february-2024/

The Library of Congress is seeking our next Innovator in Residence to start in September 2024! We will fund an individual up to $90,000 per year for a maximum of two years to do research with Lib...

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/01/now-accepting-concepts-for-the-2024-2025-innovator-in-residence-program/

The Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) AudioVisual Working Group partnered with a consultant and accessibility firm on a project to enhance accessibility in open-source deskto...

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/01/fadgi-report-software-accessibility-for-open-source-applications/

Happy 2024 to all of our Signal subscribers! In this special edition of “What’s New Online at the Library of Congress,” we’re looking back on some of our new digital collections releases ...

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2023/12/new-loc-2023-wrap/