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Jennifer Chapman @jelizachapman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

JJ Dearborn & I wrote a blog post about the difficult, complex, but essential work, we're doing as fellows at the @harvardlil.bsky.social in helping research & develop resilient public data infrastructure. I'm very honored to be part of this project lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/09...

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Global Stewardship of Public Data: A Research & Development Initiative for Resilient Public Data Infrastructure | Library Innovation Lab

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Open-source tools power nearly every web archive, including Perma.cc. From bot defenses to shrinking funding, sustaining this critical preservation infrastructure can't be an afterthought. Takeaways from #iipcWAC26 keynote: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/06... #WebArchiveWednesday

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Sustaining Open-Source Web Archiving Infrastructure: Takeaways from IIPC Conference 2026 | Library Innovation Lab

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Announcing WARCbench: an open-source command-line tool for exploring, analyzing, transforming, and extracting data from WARC files—built on a decade of Perma.cc experience to help archivists wrangle real‑world, messy web archives. #WebArchiveWednesday lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/06...

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

In partnership with dataindex.us, LIL's #PubDataProject Team investigates solutions for detecting and monitoring changes in data over time at scale. Read more about our methods in our newest blogpost: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/06...

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

New blogpost from the #PublicDataProject! Project Lead Molly Hardy reflects on our #AI benchmarking exercise, which grew out of our partnership with @dataindex.us and is part of our efforts to build a data monitoring tool. Read more on the LIL blog: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/06...

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An Automated Data Monitoring Toolkit and the AI Benchmarking Exercise at the Public Data Project | Library Innovation Lab

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

When might digital provenance matter? Could we imagine it being used to right past wrongs, to return objects to their rightful places, to restore justice? Our Public Data Project's @mollyhardy.bsky.social reflects on copying gov data & principles of provenance lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/12...

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Replication of Government Datasets and the Principles of Provenance | Library Innovation Lab

As part of our Public Data Project, LIL recently launched Data.gov Archive Search. In this post, we consider the importance of provenance for large, replicat...

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Antoine @ant.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

If you'd like an informative and interesting conversation to enjoy try "Inside Harvard’s Data.gov Archive – A Conversation with Jack Cushman" @jed.co interviewing Jack Cushman @harvardlil.bsky.social about Data.gov archiving on @source.coop Now live www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYMb...

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EOT End Of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org · 19/11/2025

Our EOT2024 partner @harvardlil.bsky.social was interviewed by @jed.co on @source.coop about archiving government data. Listen & learn how 300,000+ federal datasets are archived for posterity Inside Harvard’s Data.gov Archive, A Conversation with Jack Cushman: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYMb...

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Source Cooperative @source.coop · 20/11/2025

If you missed our conversation with Jack Cushman from @harvardlil.bsky.social‬, you can catch up now. We discussed the Data.gov Archive and the challenge of preventing federal data loss – it's about more than just web pages. youtube.com/live/XYMbQru...

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Jack Cushman: Inside Harvard’s Data.gov Archive (EP 3)

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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Workshop Report: "Resilience in Times of Crisis - Strengthening Open Science Against Geopolitical Pressures" (via Research Group Information Management" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) infomgnt.org/posts/2025-1... @datarescueproject.org @harvardlil.bsky.social #libraries #openscience

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?" Their answers: lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...

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14 Designs for Digital Preservation in 2025

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Join our team! LIL is looking for a Product and Research Manager to help create, shape, and execute on our portfolio of open knowledge projects. PRMs work across every piece of the LIL ecosystem, from software experimentation to convening of events. Learn more at careers.harvard.edu/job/product-...

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Thrilled to share that @maxy.bsky.social's "Century-Scale Storage" was nominated for a Webby Award! You can vote in the "Best Individual Editorial Feature" category here: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

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Greg Leppert @leppert.me · 12/03/2025

As the @institutionaldatainitiative.org expands its mission, we’re announcing a collaboration with @bpl.boston.gov to develop AI-driven tools capable of accelerating new digitization at libraries across the world, starting at the Boston Public Library. institutionaldatainitiative.org/posts/using-...

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Using AI to Accelerate Digitization at Boston Public Librarys

Today, as part of our mission expansion, we’re announcing a collaboration with BPL to develop AI-driven tools capable of accelerating new digitization of large collections at libraries across the worl...

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Greg Leppert @leppert.me · 05/03/2025

I'm pleased to announce we're expanding our mission at the @institutionaldatainitiative.org with an open call for institutional collaborators, new digitization at Harvard Law School Library, and additional support to advance this work. institutionaldatainitiative.org/posts/open-c...

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Expanding Our Mission: An Open Call for Collaborators

Today, we’re pleased to announce an open call for institutional collaborators as new support expands the research capacity of the Institutional Data Initiative.

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Ed Summers at Stanford wrote this great deep dive of how and why we designed our data.gov archiver the way we did. Thanks for digging in, Ed, this is excellent. inkdroid.org/2025/02/17/n...

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

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Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...

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Lynda M. Kellam #DataRescue @lyndamk.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Penn is getting a lot of questions about Data Refuge. That effort no longer exists, but several efforts are currently active. I've created a doc from what I & others have suggested. I'll update as I hear more. Feel free to share or suggest: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Data Rescue Efforts

Data / Website Rescue Efforts End of Term Crawl - The main coordinated effort to archive websites, but datasets have been more of a challenge. EDGI - They have been focused on environmental data. A ...

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

What insights emerge when a librarian, a software engineer, and a legal scholar come together to experiment with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to explore over 800,000 French legal articles 🇫🇷? Blog post: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Case study: lil.law.harvard.edu/open-french-...

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I’ve been thinking so much lately about data storage, formats, inscription, archives & deep time for the #dataloss project. So cool to see this piece come out from @harvardlil.bsky.social on CENTURY-SCALE STORAGE by @maxy.bsky.social (ty @louravn.bsky.social!) lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...

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Century-Scale Storage

If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

"We picked a century scale because most physical objects can survive 100 years in good care. It is attainable, and yet we selected it because the design of mainstream digital storage mediums are nowhere close to even considering this mark." lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage

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Century-Scale Storage

If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

More news! @institutionaldatainitiative.org officially launched today. This massive effort was conceived at LIL by Greg Leppert, who's now leading the charge as executive director. Our mission to bring library principles to technological frontiers is embedded in IDI's purpose. Read more below!

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is such a cool piece and presented in a beautiful format

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Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Here it is, the longest piece of nonfiction I’ve ever written, CENTURY-SCALE STORAGE. The kind folks at @harvardlil.bsky.social let me investigate the present and future of digital storage, and how we steward and preserve our most treasured cultural objects lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...

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Century-Scale Storage

If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?

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Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It has crazy good design from friends Shelby Wilson and Alex Miller. If you like reading about libraries, archives, hard drives, codexes, monasteries, wars, disasters, space probes, and indictments of the current corporate and government order, this piece might be for you...

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 11/12/2024

Incredible essay about the importance and challenges of digital archival by @maxy.bsky.social, as well as the various imperfect strategies to achieve “century-scale” digital archives. lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal... 1/

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Century-Scale Storage

If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The question is "simple". This essay starts at the birthplace of the IBM 305 RAMAC, looks at the cloud, clay tablets, tape drives, distributed storage...But technology alone will never be the whole answer. Maxwell Neely-Cohen is a writer, technologist & fellow at LIL. Link below!

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Hi! We're on here now too. A few things: - We're hiring a software engineer! lil.law.harvard.edu/jobs/ - Help us find our people. Who should we connect with & what conversations should we jump in on? Tag us! - Keep an eye out for a publication we're really excited about, coming out tomorrow :)

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