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IDI @institutional.org · 12/06/2025

Today we released Institutional Books 1.0, a 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability. 🧵

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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

1M public domain books now available digitally, through our Institutional Data Initiative at Harvard.

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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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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 25/02/2025

I noticed someone mentioning that they couldn't afford "How Git Works" right now. we have a "buy one give one" program where we give away 1 free copy for every zine sold. You can use code BUYONEGIVEONE to get a free PDF copy of How Git Works if $12 is a lot for you. wizardzines.com/zines/git/

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How Git Works

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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-...

Title "Open French Law RAG" overlaid on llama dressed in a French lawyer robe in front of an abstract background.

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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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Greg Leppert @leppert.me · 13/12/2024

Yesterday we launched the Institutional Data Initiative at Harvard Law School Library to work with libraries, government agencies, and other knowledge institutions to help refine and publish their collections as data, with an eye toward AI. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/inst...

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