The Library of Congress has recently debuted their new online "Labs" website. I decided to check it out to see what all the fuss was about. Library of Congress Labs: https://labs.loc.gov/ The Labs website is a fun place to interact with digitized collections of the Library of Congress. If you have any interest in history, World War I, or contributing to the digitization and usefulness of archival resources, this is the place for you.
I mostly played around with the Experiments section. In this section is a project called "Beyond Words". Here you can help identify pictures located in old newspapers through marking, transcribing, and verifying. If you have no background in history, but still want to play around - I would suggest sticking with the marking portion. You can use online tools to mark on the page where a picture occurs, which someone can then go through later and transcribe. Overall, this new site from Library of Congress is quite fun. I enjoyed marking up a few newspapers, finding it easy and intriguing at the same time. I'm looking forward to how this online "Labs" will expand and grow in the future. It has a lot of potential.
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