The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.

The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.

The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.

The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.

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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How the Harvard Library Innovation Lab is preserving and making Data.gov datasets discoverable using BagIt and static search.

Today, we’re joined by Jack Cushman, director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, where he and his team are reimagining how library principles can shape the future of legal technology. Jack is a…

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

InterviewerIf you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?

InterviewerIf you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?

InterviewerIf you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?

InterviewerIf you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?

14 Designs for Digital Preservation in 2025

Between a political policy environment focused on defunding and deleting data collections – an environment in which little can be trusted – and an onslaught of new AI tools that feed indiscriminately ...

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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...

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

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...

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 ...

The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.

Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite.

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

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

Cambridge, MA – Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab (LIL) is proud to announce the official launch of the Institutional Data Initiative (IDI), a grou...

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