Awarded September 2019
With grant support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the LC Labs team will test a cloud-based approach for interacting with digital collections as data. In collaboration with subject matter experts and IT specialists at the Library, LC Labs will invite a cohort of research experts to experiment with solutions to problems that can only be explored at scale. This effort will help produce models for supporting cloud-based research computing, and will make the costs and possibilities of this work more transparent to the broader cultural heritage community.
Learn more in this press release and this blog post on the Signal.
Important Dates!
We are now accepting applications for the research cohort! See the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for Interested Researchers for more information. See the full posting on beta.SAM.gov External
We will also be posting a job opportunity on USAJobs for the following position:
- Mellon Senior Innovation Specialist This two-year position (with possibility for telework) will liaise with technologists, researchers, and other colleagues to support computational use of collections by developing code, scripts, and workflows to support subsetting and analysis of cloud-based collections. Check USAJobs to view this opportunity, which will be posted in the coming weeks. This page will be updated when the opportunity is live.
The CCHC project final report and models will be published in January 2022.
Advisory Board
We are thrilled to welcome the following members to our advisory board.
- Katrine Hofmann Gasser
Section Manager at the Royal Danish Library - John Hessler
Geography and Maps Division, Library of Congress - Harriett Green
Associate University Librarian for the Digital Scholarship and Technology Services Division, University of Washington, St.-Louis - Dr. Liz Lorang
Associate Professor of Libraries, University of Nebraska Lincoln - Dr. Ian Milligan
Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Waterloo - Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble
Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Department of Information Studies
Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry - Dr. Sarah Stone
Executive Director, eScience Institute, University of Washington - Dr. John Walsh
Director of HathiTrust Research Center, Associate Professor of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington