Example and analysis of how AI web scrapers are breaking small and medium cultural heritage sites.

Blog: Visualizing 14,000 Released Epstein Emails. I built a viz of the emails released as part of the 20K House Oversight Committee docs. thisismattmiller.com/post/email-v... - A clustered high level view of the emails by contact across time - Zoom into individual emails and open the sources

LCNAF & Trie – Storing +11M unique names in 50MB data structure in the browser thisismattmiller.com/post/lcnaf-t... - Optimizing LCNAF authorized headings into a trie data structure - In browser MARC file name reconciliation + search tool - OpenRefine / Command line tools for reconciliation

Halloween blog post: Italian Giallo Horror Films thisismattmiller.com/post/giallo/ - Using vision language model to analyze a 70 film corpus (🧟) / 80,000 frames - Build and plot “trope clusters” across movies Probably the longest eye acting supercut you've seen: youtu.be/cGrmkOwut6k

New Post: PEN America Banned Books 2025 dataset thisismattmiller.com/post/book-ba... Looking at school district book bans - Interactive Map interface to the books banned in 2024-2025 - A faceted browse interface to the 3700 books - Subject heading analysis

New Blog Post. Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images thisismattmiller.com/post/lc-flic... - Organizing 95K photo comments. - Viewer to explore user georectified images - Folksonomy tagging vs LCSH Vocabulary - Placing into the Wiki* knowledge graph

One output, 1 hour 40mins of Siskel and Ebert summaries: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFLM...

Trying out workflows that use multimodal LLMs for validating and QA. In this blog I walk through a test using 1000 Siskel and Ebert videos to extract key video frames and other data. thisismattmiller.com/post/buildin...

maintenance

New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S. Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉 🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) Director: Joe Dante Cast: Phoebe Cates-Kline, Sylvester Stallone, Hulk Hogan, Zach Galligan, Christopher Lee Watch Review wp / wd

thisismattmiller.com/post/glitch/ New blog post about @glitch.com shutdown, how I migrated my apps, and how I used glitch for teaching and creative projects.

The Library of Congress BIBFRAME Update is online today at 1PM EDT. Talks about: - Hubs (BF ontology) - BF Cataloging at Penn Libraries - BF Validation Tooling listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A...

Yeah we have bots endlessly flooding id.loc.gov stressing servers to the limit trying to scrape millions of html pages even though we offer pretty much all of it as bulk downloads: id.loc.gov/download/

ideal

A new very chill bot, for these very un-chill times. Posts FERNS from "Ferns: British and exotic..." by E. J. Lowe. 8 vols 1856-1860. Makes a new collage every 8 hours.

Interesting! Because they just terminated their grant for the Post45 Data Collective, which preserves and establishes access to collections of literary and cultural data!

If you need me I’ll be in…

waiting for the dead bodies to arrive, but they're not doing me any favors

It’s true, and /r/pslf is full of community bureaucratic evocation tips: “did you try the wet signature doc upload ritual?” or “are you sure you used this exact text in your reconsideration request summoning?” that are unclear if they ever actually work.

I wrote a bit about turning triples into pie charts.

We’ve posted a job ad to join our team at LC Labs. I am very proud and excited about the work we have planned. Please share. I’ll also mention that we are part of the legislative branch and this is a partner-supported project. www.usajobs.gov/job/832669800

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Less Gemini AI in my gmail and more fixing the broken Bus Stop theme that I've used for the last 15+ years

"How to tell the birds from the flowers and other wood-cuts." 1929 public domain book. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=co... found via thisismattmiller.github.io/hathi-pd-202...

New blog post: Three interfaces to explore the 50,000 1929 HathiTrust resources that entered the public domain last month thisismattmiller.com/post/hathi-p...

preparing for department of ed shutdown potentiality, downloading all my info, and just looking at my pslf dashboard... "he was just three days from retirement"...almost made it :(

New publication! “Knowledge Graphing Art Archives: Methods and Tools from the Semantic Lab’s E.A.T. Project” Highlighting work creating a knowledge graph for archival materials from the avant-garde movement, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

BEANS!

With the BIBFRAME update forum from Library of Congress coming up tomorrow, I wanted to share my approach to using APIs from Alma to connect data from the Marva linked data editor. youtu.be/N1gP9FPJ9jE

With tiktok probably shutting down I made some scripts to download and build a local web interface for your TikTok liked and favorited videos: github.com/thisismattmi... I had 2200 videos, takes up about 20GB. Here is a video of the interface:

visiting fellow library employees today

what if we kissed in the sacred geometry :3

A post on using models like SAM2 and LLaVA on 14,000 woodcut images from Plantin-Moretus Museum: thisismattmiller.com/post/woodblo... Then making a toy that lets you mashup that output into new images: woodblockshop.glitch.me Which are then posted at this account: @woodblockshop.bsky.social

I migrated an old twitter bot here. Really simple to interact with the AT Protocol using the atproto python module.

When Matt shared this, I didn’t at first fully understand how great a resource it is. When Hathi has full text he *links*to it — so this is in effect the beginning of a legal, open 20c corpus. I didn’t know we had that.

Lights over the Supreme Court earlier this evening in DC.

For Banned Book week I took a look at the metadata for 1500 titles identified by PEN America’s banned and challenged book list. Analyzing subject headings used and other data. thisismattmiller.com/post/banned-...

New post looking at using the Whisper speech to text model on 400+ 1938 folk songs collected by Alan Lomax. I look at quality, building a lyric focus web component player, search interface and LLM enrichment: thisismattmiller.com/post/lomax-w...

If you have +11 million names, like in the LC Name Authority File, how many of them anagram to each other? A lot: thisismattmiller.com/post/lcnaf-a...

Wrote a tutorial on how to migrate your data if you use Dockerized Wikibase to a new server: thisismattmiller.com/post/migrati... Very niche, but would have saved me a ton of time if existed.

Browse 1928 books in HathiTrust that entered the public domain this week by popularity. I made a couple interfaces that allow you browse and explore by Library of Congress Classification: thisismattmiller.github.io/hathi-pd-2024/

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