2024 Cohort 2 - Group 19 Discussion

[Sharon-DPC]

This is the discussion thread for those in Group 19 of the July-December 2024 Cohort

[asegal20902]

Hi all Group 19 members! I am going to repost the material I posted during the last cohort, where I was not as active. I'd like to start things off with a slide I produced during the pandemic on how I used Python at the Library of Congress during a learning group to use the Python Library "Beautiful Soup" to retrieve Library data about the papers of President William Howard Taft, which I helped get online, and about a book of poetry by great weird fiction author Clark Ashton Smith, because I am interested in science fiction and fantasy ;) . I would also like to share the link from Digital Transitions, a camera company which produces imaging cameras and software that the Library of Congress uses, to a webinar about how to use Python. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mozYgcGzjqs
Showcase-Show-Tell.pptx
Perhaps we can discuss more of what we are doing on Friday mornings when I am telecommuting.
Best Ariel Segal

[asegal20902]

Showcase-Show-Tell.pptx
Here's the slide on what I did for the Library of Congress learning group. As I am rusty, I might want to run through it again. This includes some presentations by other participants as well.

[asegal20902]

By the end of Labor Day weekend (beginning of first week in September), I am planning to

Read through the primer https://github.com/Digital-Preservation-Coalition/PythonStudyGroups/wiki
Review the Digital Transitions Webinar on Python using Visual Studio Code
Read through the "Working with APIs" use case https://github.com/Digital-Preservation-Coalition/PythonStudyGroups/blob/main/How-Tos/Use%20Case%20-%20Working%20with%20apis.md and try to make it work using Visual Studio Code.
Does that sound reasonable for the rest of us to do? Any other suggestions?

[asegal20902]

Here's a link to the examples and images the Digital Transitions webinar staff provided, available on my Google Drive. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/149MkvZd-JgM6O2aqK1WjgkokhooHlXZH?usp=sharing