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Software, E-Resource Transcription dataset from the John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax Papers, American Folklife Center By the People transcription campaign title : at the library and in the field : John and Alan Lomax Papers

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Title

  • Transcription dataset from the John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax Papers, American Folklife Center

Other Title

  • By the People transcription campaign title : at the library and in the field : John and Alan Lomax Papers

Summary

  • This dataset is an export of transcriptions for 9,521 images from the John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax Papers digital collection created by volunteers participating in the Library of Congress crowdsourcing program By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov) campaign At the Library and in the Field: John and Alan Lomax Papers. It contains text created by volunteers through a transcription and review process, volunteer-created tags, digital collections metadata, and metadata representing the arrangement of the items in the By the People platform, Concordia.
  • The dataset includes transcriptions and data generated from the pages in the By the People campaign At the Library and in the Field: John and Alan Lomax Papers (https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/lomax-library-field/). The transcription campaign included all then-available online images of digitized content from the John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax Papers (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.afc1933001), excepting a handful of maps. Folklorists John A. Lomax, Sr., and his son Alan Lomax were stewards of a nascent Archive of American Folk-Song from September 1933 to October 1942. This collection consists of the records of their work administering the growth of that archive, including correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, and writings. See the John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax Papers digital collection (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.afc1933001) for all available online items for this collection, as well as contextual information.
  • This dataset includes: 2022482299.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file -- lomax-library-field_2023-06-05.csv - a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image URL, the volunteer-created transcriptions, and volunteer-created tags. This .CSV is the direct export of the At the Library and in the Field: John and Alan Lomax Papers campaign.

Names

  • American Folklife Center
  • Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002
  • Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
  • By the People (Program), compiler

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : By the People, Library of Congress, 2023

Headings

  • -  Lomax, Alan,--1915-2002--Correspondence
  • -  Lomax, John A.--(John Avery),--1867-1948--Correspondence
  • -  Archive of American Folk Song
  • -  United States.--Works Progress Administration--Correspondence
  • -  Folklorists--United States--Correspondence
  • -  Folk music--United States
  • -  Folk songs, English--United States

Genre

  • Data sets

Notes

  • -  "Dataset created 2023-06-05."--README file.
  • -  "Launched July 13, 2021 and completed Sept. 2, 2021."--By the People campaign website, viewed May 21, 2023.
  • -  Title from README file.

Medium

  • 1 online resource (dataset)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • ML423.L6347

Repository

  • s-Online Electronic Resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2022482299

Online Format

  • compressed data

Additional Metadata Formats

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Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

American Folklife Center, Alan Lomax, and John A Lomax. Transcription dataset from the John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax Papers, American Folklife Center. composeds by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, 2023. Software, E-Resource. https://www.loc.gov/item/2022482299/.

APA citation style:

American Folklife Center, Lomax, A. & Lomax, J. A. (2023) Transcription dataset from the John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax Papers, American Folklife Center. By The People Iler, comp Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2022482299/.

MLA citation style:

American Folklife Center, Alan Lomax, and John A Lomax. Transcription dataset from the John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax Papers, American Folklife Center. comp by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, 2023. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2022482299/>.