Our 2023 Innovator in Residence Jeffrey 유 Yoo Warren just dropped his first blog post on the Signal! Learn about his work to visualize destroyed Chinatowns Library of Congress . blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2023…

Before the Memphis Police Dept. releases the video of 5 MPD officers murdering #TyreNichols during a routine traffic stop, and that heinous video inevitably goes viral, I want to amplify THIS video of Tyre LIVING his best life. 🛹👑🙏🏿😔✊🏿 #JusticeForTyreNichols 🎥: Austin Dean

“My vision is to bring my viewers deep into what I am seeing through my eye and out through my lens,” Tyre Nichols wrote on his photography website. “People have a story to tell, why not capture it.” apnews.com/article/tyre-n…

We should not need to see graphic video of a Black person being killed by police to know that Black Lives Matter. Tyre Nichols should be alive today, and our hearts are with his family, friends and community.

Anyone want to help us test the new Transcribe Shadd Cary crowdsourcing project? >>> DM us for the links

For #BHM, the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative Library of Congress will be sharing #BlackStudies digital materials from a wide range of Library collections that we hope will delight and/or surprise you. (1/6)

We're excited to celebrate #DouglassDay on Tuesday 2/14! Join us & Douglass Day as we gather to transcribe the papers of Mary Ann Shadd Cary. In the meantime, learn more about Shadd Cary in this 2019 blog post from Law Library of Congress: blogs.loc.gov/law/2019/02/ma… #BlackHistoryMonth

Happy birthday Frederick Douglass!🎂Every Feb. 14 we celebrate his chosen birthday by joining Douglass Day and others around the world to transcribe Black history. This year it's papers of Mary Ann Shadd Cary from Moorland Spingarn Research Center, Archives of Ontario, & more: douglassday.org

TFW you're squinting with focus and zooming in + out to get your eyes in on transcribing to capture all that has been conveyed in a letter, and you read "I write by lantern..." 😂 (Challenge accepted!) #DouglassDay

Behind the scenes #DouglassDay 2023! Here is what our Broadcast room looks like as the transcribing happens simultaneously. Transcribe with us douglassday.org

Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) Scholar in Residence maya cade chose tenderness as her prompt for studying films Library of Congress. check out Maya’s 3 #bhm picks below from Library’s National Screening Room. (1/5)

Are you going to museweb next week? Join us for a #DrinkingAboutMuseums after the last session on Wednesday! We will be at the Bronson Bierhall, a short walk from the conference. Looking forward to seeing you. Please help spread the word to anyone new to the field.

For the first we rolled out this 54 foot long petition from 1865. It was signed by 3,740 African Americans from South Carolina asking Congress “equal rights before the law" months after the Civil War. We need the public's help transcribing this historic treasure. 🧵

We are launching a nationwide crowdsourcing campaign through the Library’s By the People program. These names may have originated in SC but its reach runs broader and deeper. We owe it to these 3,740 people that they be recognized, remembered and their stories told.

Help us transcribe this valuable part of American history. Go to crowd.loc.gov and start transcribing today.

A look at using GPT3/3.5/4 on library and archives collections. Using the crowdsourced transcribed Susan B. Anthony Papers from LOC Crowdsourcing as a use case. Using LLM to manipulate and extract metadata and the type of interfaces/data that makes possible: thisismattmiller.com/post/using-gpt…

Want to learn more? Join LOC Crowdsourcing and Library staff for a virtual event on April 5 at 3pm EST! Attendees will learn about the petition's history and genealogical resources for researching the lives of the petition signers. Join here: loc.gov/item/event-408…

Excited to announce that Distant Viewing with The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social is out today and open access! @statsmaths and I offer a theory and method for computer vision at the intersection of #datascience #digitalhumanities and visual culture. Please help spread the word! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546133/…