« Certains ouvrages de cette collection numérisée datent du 10e siècle et sont les seuls exemplaires existant au monde.
Pour célébrer l’Asian Pacific American Heritage month, le mois durant lequel est célébré chaque année le patrimoine américano-asiatique du Pacifique, la Bibliothèque du Congrès a numérisé et mis en ligne une
« À l’occasion du Nouvel An perse, aussi connu sous le nom de Norouz, la Bibliothèque du Congrès a numérisé une collection de rares manuscrits perses dont 150 sont d’ores et déjà disponibles. Les ouvrages mettent en lumière des sujets scientifiques, religieux, philosophiques et littéraires, et reflètent la diversité des traditions…
« Library of Congress staff members compile subject guides to help researchers get a better sense of the contents of the collections on a particular subject — and to find those resources. The Library of Congress recently launched the first batch of guides in a new format, utilizing the LibGuides platform,…
« The Library of Congress has been exploring “linked data” for over 10 years. The genesis of this development goes back to the W3C projects in the late 1990s on SGML, then XML, HTML, and finally a linked data oriented format RDF. In 2007 the Library of Congress organized a community…
« The Library of Congress announced today that it is making 25 million records in its online catalog available for free bulk download at loc.gov/cds/products/marcDist.php. This is the largest release of digital records in the Library’s history. (…) »
« The Library of Congress today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Digital Public Library of America to become a Content Hub and will ultimately share a significant portion of its rich digital resources with DPLA’s database of digital content records.
The first batch of records…
« (…) Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution gives Congress the power “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” The Copyright Act of 1790,…
« On February 3, 2016, the Government Publishing Office launched www.govinfo.gov, a beta website that will eventually replace the Federal Digital System (FDsys) public website. FDsys, and now govinfo, provide free public access to hundreds of thousands of official publications from all three…
« The Library of Congress has just released online, “Conversations About RDA”, a new series of five training videos providing, “tips and strategies for working with the RDA.”
The videos were recoded on May 20, 2015 (…) »
« … Key highlights:
– Work on the Library of Congress’ BIBFRAME vocabulary has advanced nearly to the point of testing its use for original cataloging, which they will be doing later this year.
– OCLC has published linked data on WorldCat.org using both the Schema.org vocabulary…
