Library of Congress

Crowdsourcing platform for full text transcription and tagging. https://crowd.loc.gov

In 2024 the LOC began its project to develop and deploy ArchivesSpace for staff and public access in 2026. The project includes development of customizations and plug-ins under a contract with Aretum.

congress.gov API

An open-source pipeline developed by the Library of Congress for reprocessing the OCR of National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) data. The application efficiently creates new ALTO XML and PDF files at scale, can be deployed locally or in common cloud environments, uses Tesseract Open-Source OCR engine and custom post-processing steps.

embARC (“metadata embedded for archival content”) manages internal file metadata including embedding and validation. Created by FADGI (Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative), in conjunction with AVP and PortalMedia, embARC enables users to audit and correct embedded metadata of a subset of MXF files, as well as both individual DPX files…

The Digital Viewer and Validator (DVV) tool is developed at the Library of Congress for use by National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) participants.

Work with BagIt packages from Python.

Utilities used to export data into spreadsheets from Django applications. Currently used internally at the Library of Congress in the WDL cataloging application.