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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Podcast: Jack Cushman joins “Pioneers & Pathfinders” to discuss libraries shaping legal tech, digital preservation, and realities of legal AI. Listen: www.seyfarth.com/news-insight...

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...

Our Public Data Project Lead @mollyhardy.bsky.social writes about public data preservation and how it’s complicated by the artificial contemporary distinction between science and the humanities @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

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-...

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...

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-...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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-...

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...

"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

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!

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

Happy to be here! 👋

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...

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...

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/

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!

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 :)