Laurie Allen

It obviously feels quite weird to post about this right now. But I really want people to apply and join us in this work.

Sr. Innovation Specialist <p>This position is located in the Digital Innovation Division, Digital Strategy Directorate, Office of the Chief Information Officer.</p> <p>The position description number for this position is 35903...

We’ve posted a job ad to join our team at LC Labs.

I am very proud and excited about the work we have planned. Please share.

I’ll also mention that we are part of the legislative branch and this is a partner-supported project.

www.usajobs.gov/job/832669800

Collage comic with girl waving and saying "Hi! I'm Vivian Li, and I'm the Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress. My project is Anywhere Adventures, and I'm creating activities and finding stories about local history within the Library's digital collections. So the Library is coming to you! The question now is.... where should we go?" Sign posts say "Find an item, post it on instagram, tag the Library, or comment here by February 5th".

LC Innovator Vivian Li is looking for nominations for where to take Anywhere Adventures in 2025. I want to hear stories about people's adorable hometowns, and i'm curious if you can find any items on loc.gov about yours?

Introducing the LC Labs Artificial Intelligence Planning Framework | The Signal LC Labs has been developing a planning framework to support the responsible exploration and potential adoption of AI at the Library.

Love the engagement with the LOC LC Labs AI Framework at this workshop hosted by Ecole Nationale des Chartes: blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

I am so delighted to see this call go out from @mellonfoundation.bsky.social to support operating costs for community-based archives. www.mellon.org/article/call.... I hope some Philly organizations apply.

New U.S. Elections Web Archive Data Resources Available | The Signal This blog post was guest-authored by Rachel Trent, Senior Digital Collections Data Librarian. For nearly twenty-five years, the Library of Congress has been archiving campaign websites for Presidentia...

Happy to announce a newly packaged up #webarchiving U.S. Election web archive dataset has been released! Learn more blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...

Collaging with the Library’s Digital Collections | The Signal In 2018, the Library launched the very popular Free To Use and Reuse Sets, where staff curate thematic sets of items from our digital collections that are either in the public domain, have no known co...

"Starting with the Library’s Free to Use + Reuse items, [the LoC Junior Fellows] used... object detection + image segmentation to automatically identify subjects w/in a wide variety of images and “cut” them into segments that could be easily arranged and manipulated on an online digital canvas."

Yep. Please block and report fake LOC account.

I’m finishing up a pretty technical paper that straddles computer science, digital humanities, and archives using a bunch of national library data. I’d love some input from Bluesky about good journals to submit to. I haven’t done this in a while! 📚 #skybrarians #academicsky

Hello real you!!. Also reported the fake one.

Library of Congress: “Collaging with the Library’s Digital Collections” www.infodocket.com/2024/11/25/l... #libraries

I should mention this feed I love finds people posting something like “this should be in the library of congress” across Bluesky. Fascinating. Thanks @hadro.bsky.social

Another cool feed tracking mentions of LC on Bluesky bsky.app/profile/did:...

bsky.app/profile/did:...

I love this feed @hadro.bsky.social made.

Mural of African American activists featuring a woman in a mask and the word Organize.

A mural celebrating African Americans from the 19th century and the words “Convention of Colored People”

Mural featuring African American activists and the word “organize”

On my morning walk before logging on to start work, I love seeing the murals from @ccp-org.bsky.social near my house.

Please spread the word: Our colleagues at Schmidt Sciences are launching a new program to support research at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the humanities. Note the fast turnaround time! www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

A Search for the Heart: Digital collections, machine learning and legacies of care Machine learning models are hungry for content from libraries and cultural insitutions. How can we imagine ways these technologies might help people and communities, while also being mindful of risks ...

A few days into writing a report on machine learning and cultural data for the Library of Congress, I came back with a question:

"Can it be a comic?"

Two years and many iterations later, here's "A Search for the Heart":

libraryofcongress.github.io/a-search-for...

Looks like a 4.8 earthquake centered in NJ.

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

So that earthquake I just felt was also in New York and Baltimore? Wtf?

Challenges for integrating volunteer and AI-enriched metadata into collections systems What are we studying? There's a long history of crowdsourcing projects at cultural heritage institutions (GLAMS, or galleries, libraries, archives and museums). More recently, GLAMs have experimented ...

So you've enriched collections data by crowdsourcing, machine learning/AI, or both. But does the data end up in a collections management system, or does it sit on a drive somewhere?

Share your experiences - our survey should take about 15 mins:
forms.gle/JgArpbL6VNM6...

And pls boost for reach!

What a dream teaching team!

Library of Congress Opens Search for Next Innovator in Residence The Library of Congress is looking for its next Innovator in Residence. Through March 5, the Library invites technologists, artists and other creative visionaries to propose imaginative proofs of...

An amazing opportunity for artists/scholars/data folks to be Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress: newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

Just an incredible set of possibilities for connecting communities to unparalleled collections!

If you know any artists/scholars/data folks who might be a great Innovator in Residence at The Library of Congress for 2024-2025, now is the time to spread the word. The call for concept papers Is out. Info at: labs.loc.gov/about/opport...

These are great, Mia! Thanks for posting.

Congratulations! My first day on this site and I’m so delighted to see this! If LC Labs can be helpful, let me know!!