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This paper offers an overview of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division and its efforts to digitise the collection. The number of hard copy maps is huge: over 5.5 million most of them un-catalogued. New maps continue to be added to the collection some in new digital formats. ...
With help from machine learning, check out how the Library of Congress is able to sort through millions of its digital collections.
The Library of Congress publishes transcriptions created by By the People volunteers onloc.govto improve search, readability, and access to handwritten and typed documents. Individual transcriptions are published alongside the transcribed images in digital collections and transcriptions are also published in...
This Friday, the Library of Congress celebrates its 220th birthday. The nation's library manages about 410 million digital files — 15.9 petabytes worth of digital collection content. To celebrate, the Library has released the "LOC Collections" app, whic
By Benjamin Charles Germain Lee (2020 Library of Congress Innovator in Residence) This project is an experiment and there is no active development and/or maintenance of the codebase. Fork at your own risk! In the unlikely event that there are further updates, the LC Labs team will announce ...
Other digital library projects at the Library of Congress include: • Standards: The Library of Congress is the maintenance agency for several key standards used in the information community, including US Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) formats, the Z39.50 information retrieval protocol, the Encod...
The Library of Congress (LC) has many of the same challenges as other libraries, especially large ones. LC has many different types of resources - books, journals, maps, music, manuscripts, audio, moving image, still image, artifacts, electronic - with large collections of each. Different lev...
While it is certainly a library, it is unlike any library you are familiar with. It isn’t your community lending library or a college research library; however, it does have some elements of both. The story of how the Library of Congress came to be and how it became so big begins in...
MINERVA: Archiving Born-Digital Material at the Library of Congress MINERVA (Mapping the Internet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive) is the Library of Congress's largest archive of born-digital materials. The article dis... R Taylor - 《Slavic & East European Information Resources》 被引量: 13...