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09 July 2008
Declaring Independence: Beyond the Fourth of July

Ken Drexler and Mark Hall from the Library of Congress talk about the events and documents leading up to the formal Declaration of Independence, as well as afterwards (16 MB file; Runtime 51:37) Read More...

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Filed under: history, OPAL, Library of Congress, Declaration of Independence

 

02 July 2008
Ed Summers Talks with Talis

Ed Summers has recently been active in exposing Library of Congress Subject Heading data as Linked Data using Semantic Web technologies and RDF, through his experimental service at lcsh.info . In this conversation we find out how Ed's career, not always Read More...

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18 June 2008
Invisible Ancestors

Anne Toohey and Judy Graves from the Library of Congress show how to use their digital collections to find information about your ancestors (18.5 MB file; Runtime 58:07) Read More...

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20 May 2008
From Monticello to Capitol Hill: Thomas Jefferson and His Library

From Monticello to Capitol Hill: Thomas Jefferson and His Library, presented by the librarians at the Library of Congress on May 14, 2008 (16.7 MB, runtime 53:15) Read More...

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