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.
Apply now to be one of two Digital Scholarship Librarians supporting the project.
Important Dates
Library of Congress – CCHC Quarterly Updates
Please join us for our second quarterly call in which we will discuss describe the progress to date and answer questions about past and upcoming opportunities. Let us know your questions ahead of time by filling out this form.
Tuesday, March 17, 1pm – 2pm Eastern.
Join online at https://locgov.webex.com/meet/lallen
Or by phone
+1-510-210-8882 USA toll
Access code: 909 152 858
In 2019, we will be hiring two Digital Scholarship Librarians to support the research expert cohort. We will also be hiring a Program Assistant. We will link here to the position calls when they are made available..
In spring 2020, we will put out a call for research expert applications and link to the call when it is published. The research cohort will run from May 2020 - January 2021.
The CCHC project final report and models will be published in the fall of 2021.
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