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2026 15

  1. Counted: Reflections on the US Census
  2. Announcing the Publication of an Agentic Assessment Tool for Public Data at Risk
  3. Who Will Steward Humanity’s Public Data? Collective Global Stewardship for the Long Horizon
  4. Public Data, AI, and the Future of the Catalog
  5. Global Stewardship of Public Data: A Research & Development Initiative for Resilient Public Data Infrastructure
  6. Will We Ever Solve the Problem of Losing Data?
  7. Binoc: A Field Guide
  8. Local News as Public Data, Then and Now
  9. An Open Hardware TPU on Your Desk
  10. WARCbench: A Swiss Army Knife for WARC Processing
  11. Sustaining Open-Source Web Archiving Infrastructure: Takeaways from IIPC Conference 2026
  12. An Automated Data Monitoring Toolkit and the AI Benchmarking Exercise at the Public Data Project
  13. Introducing the Law Skills Hub
  14. Libraries and Public Access to Federal Data: Chris Marcum Talks to the Public Data Project
  15. Launching the Agent Protocols Tech Tree

2025 11

  1. Replication of Government Datasets and the Principles of Provenance
  2. Rethinking Data Discovery for Libraries and Digital Humanities
  3. Welcome to LIL’s Data.gov Archive Search
  4. Expanding Our Public Data Project to Include Smithsonian Collections Data
  5. Live and Let Die: Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Memory, and Forgetting Through a Library Lens
  6. LIL Awarded AALL Public Access to Government Information Award
  7. IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2025 Recap
  8. What We Learned Building Chatbots for Law Professors Using Custom GPT
  9. Announcing the Data.gov Archive
  10. Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data
  11. Open French Law RAG: Using AI for Cross-Language Legal Information Retrieval

2024 13

  1. Library Innovation Lab Announces the Launch of Institutional Data Initiative to Expand Access to Knowledge
  2. Adding Fresher Caselaw To Open Casebooks
  3. WARC-GPT “on tour”: Talk transcript and slide decks
  4. Student Note: ChatGPT Ate My Homework. Can LLMs Generate Compelling Case Briefs?
  5. Announcing the COLD French Law Dataset
  6. IIPC 2024 aka EmiLIL in Paris
  7. A modest improvement to WARC-GPT
  8. New Endeavors at the Library Innovation Lab
  9. Transitions for the Caselaw Access Project
  10. Cracking the justice barrier: announcing the Open Legal AI Workbench
  11. The Cloud
  12. WARC-GPT: An Open-Source Tool for Exploring Web Archives Using AI
  13. The Cost of a Digital Archive

2023 10

  1. Welcoming Fellow Katy Gero
  2. LLMs are universal translators: on building my own translation tools for a foreign language conference
  3. Conference talk: disruptive innovation in libraries
  4. AI Book Bans: Testing LLMs Against the Freedom to Read
  5. Mysterious Search Algorithms
  6. “Did ChatGPT really say that?”: Provenance in the age of Generative AI.
  7. Witnessing the web is hard: Why and how we built the Scoop web archiving capture engine 🍨
  8. Introducing Reading Mode for H2O
  9. IIPC Technical Speaker Series: Archiving Twitter
  10. Towards “deep fake” web archives? Trying to forge WARC files using ChatGPT.

2022 7

  1. ChatGPT: Poems and Secrets
  2. Ethical Collaborative Storytelling
  3. Welcome Molly White: Library Innovation Lab Fellow
  4. H2O usability study: do students want physical casebooks?
  5. Web Archiving: Opportunities and Challenges of Client-Side Playback
  6. What Legal Hackers Can Learn From Libraries
  7. IIPC 2022 Recap

2021 8

  1. 2021 Research Associates
  2. Interface Upgrade | Integrating Queries into Search and Case View
  3. New Feature | Flexible Citation Queries
  4. Feature Update | Extension of Trend Search Capability
  5. Download PDFs of Cases by Citation with CAP
  6. Updates to Case Display - Headmatter
  7. Search Update: Download Search Results as Dataset
  8. New Updates to Search: Advanced Filters

2020 19

  1. Exploring Caselaw Interfaces
  2. This Is Just Amazing
  3. Tech Tip: Sorting Cases on Analysis Fields
  4. Introducing CAP Case Analysis
  5. Summer 2020 CAP Systems Update
  6. Caselaw Access Project Cite Grid
  7. Caselaw Access Project Data Release and Bulk Metadata
  8. Guest Post: An Empirical Study of Statutory Interpretation in Tax Law
  9. Data Science for Case Law: A Course Collaboration
  10. Caselaw Access Project Nominated for a Webby: Vote for Us!
  11. Caselaw Access Project Citation Graph
  12. Caselaw Access Project Links Case Citations
  13. Caselaw Access Project Shares PDFs for All Cases
  14. CAP Code Share: Caselaw Access Project API to CSV
  15. Caselaw Access Project Downloads Now Available
  16. Caselaw Access Project Shares Scanned Images for Open Jurisdictions
  17. Connecting Data with the Supreme Court Database (SCDB) and Caselaw Access Project
  18. Some Recent Perma Use
  19. North Carolina Joins Growing List of Open Access Jurisdictions

2019 26

  1. The Open Casebook: Creating Casebooks with H2O and the Caselaw Access Project
  2. Guest Post: Is the US Supreme Court in lockstep with Congress when it comes to abortion?
  3. Getting Started with Caselaw Access Project Data
  4. Using Machine Learning to Extract Nuremberg Trials Transcript Document Citations
  5. Guest Post: Creating a Case Recommendation System Using Gensim’s Doc2Vec
  6. A Thought on Digitization
  7. Creating a Data Analysis Workspace with Voyant and the CAP API
  8. Guest Post: Do Elected and Appointed Judges Write Opinions Differently?
  9. CAP Code Share: Get Opinion Author
  10. Introducing Lawvocado: The Caselaw Access Project Newsletter
  11. Tutorial: Retrieve Cases by Citation with the CAP Case Browser
  12. Computational Support for Statutory Interpretation with Caselaw Access Project Data
  13. Tutorial: Return Cases from 100 Years Ago Today with the CAP API
  14. Caselaw Access Project: Summer 2019 Data Release
  15. Caselaw Access Project Research Summit: Recordings Now Available
  16. Browse the Bookshelf of U.S. Case Law: Announcing the CAP Case Browser
  17. Teaching Data Science for Lawyers with Caselaw Access Project Data
  18. The Caselaw Access Project Research Summit
  19. Historical Trends at the Caselaw Access Project
  20. Improving pip-compile —generate-hashes
  21. The CAP Roadshow
  22. Colors in Caselaw
  23. Launching CAP Search
  24. Some Thoughts on Digital Preservation
  25. Developing the CAP Research Community
  26. The Network Librarian

2018 10

  1. Data Stories and CAP API Full-Text Search
  2. Legal Tech Student Group Session Brings Quantitative Methods to U.S. Caselaw
  3. The Story of the case.law Domain
  4. Witchcraft in U.S. Caselaw
  5. Caselaw Access Project (CAP) Launches API and Bulk Data Service
  6. Telling Stories with CAP Data: The Prolific Mr. Cartwright
  7. The CAP Tracking Tool
  8. The ‘Library’ in Library Innovation Lab
  9. Announcing the 2018 Cohort of LIL Summer Fellows
  10. LIL Takes Toronto: the Creative Commons Summit 2018

2017 24

  1. Overheard in LIL - Episode 2
  2. LITA, Day One
  3. Overheard in LIL (the podcast!)
  4. Git physical
  5. LIL Summer Expo
  6. AALL 2017: The Caselaw Access Project + Perma.cc Hit Austin
  7. A Million Squandered: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact
  8. LIL Talks: Comedy
  9. Warc.games at IIPC
  10. IIPC 2017 – Day Three
  11. IIPC 2017 – Day Two
  12. IIPC 2017 – Day One
  13. LIL Talks: The 180-Degree Rule in Film
  14. LIL Talks: Synthesizer
  15. LIL Talks: Seltzer!
  16. LIL Talks: A Small Study of Epic Proportions
  17. LIL Talks: 1924 Democratic Convention by Caitlin
  18. LIL Talks: Parsing Caselaw
  19. Privacy Concerns vs. Traditions – When the World Changes Around You
  20. LIL Talks: Ania
  21. LIL Talks: Adam
  22. LIL Talks: Becky
  23. LIL Talks: Andy
  24. Awesome Box was an Amazing Experiment. Thank you!

2016 13

  1. Physical Pitch Decks
  2. pockets of people
  3. Nuremberg Tribunals Project Launches New Website
  4. Ars Electronica Highlights 3
  5. Versioning in the Caselaw Access Project
  6. Ars Electronica Highlights 2
  7. Ars Electronica Festival Highlights
  8. Private Talking Spaces Progress
  9. Summer Fellows Share, Join Us
  10. private talking spaces
  11. Announcing Summer Fellows
  12. Adam talks LIL on the Lawyerist Podcast
  13. IIPC: Two Track Thursday

2015 41

  1. Link roundup November 30, 2015
  2. Link roundup November 16, 2015
  3. Link roundup November 2, 2015
  4. Free the Law Wintersession Sprint
  5. Link roundup October 21, 2015
  6. Hiring! Devops energy wanted.
  7. How We’re Freeing the Law, Part 1: Books
  8. Link roundup October 1, 2015
  9. LIL at IIPC: Noticing Reykjavik
  10. Link roundup September 11, 2015
  11. LIL at IIPC: The Story So Far
  12. Link roundup September 3, 2015
  13. Link roundup August 30, 2015
  14. Link roundup August 19, 2015
  15. Link roundup August 14, 2015
  16. Link roundup August 11, 2015
  17. Link roundup August 4, 2015
  18. Link roundup July 31, 2015
  19. Link roundup July 28, 2015
  20. Link roundup July 24, 2015
  21. Link roundup July 8, 2015
  22. Link roundup June 29, 2015
  23. Link roundup June 19, 2015
  24. Link roundup June 17, 2015
  25. Link roundup June 12, 2015
  26. Link roundup June 5, 2015
  27. Link roundup May 1, 2015
  28. Link roundup April 23, 2015
  29. Link roundup April 17, 2015
  30. Link roundup April 8, 2015
  31. Link roundup April 2, 2015
  32. Link roundup March 23, 2015
  33. Link roundup March 17, 2015
  34. Link roundup March 6, 2015
  35. Library Explorers - Wearables in the library
  36. Link roundup February 24, 2015
  37. Link roundup February 13, 2015
  38. Link roundup January 17, 2015
  39. Link roundup January 10, 2015
  40. Link roundup January 6, 2015
  41. Link roundup January 5, 2015

2014 29

  1. Link roundup December 15, 2014
  2. Link roundup December 3, 2014
  3. Link roundup November 19, 2014
  4. Hiring! We want your design energy.
  5. Link roundup November 5, 2014
  6. Awesome Box top 110 of all time
  7. Link roundup October 24, 2014
  8. Link roundup October 17, 2014
  9. Link roundup September 24, 2014
  10. Link roundup September 17, 2014
  11. Link roundup September 5, 2014
  12. Link roundup August 22, 2014
  13. Link roundup August 8, 2014
  14. Link roundup July 30, 2014
  15. Link roundup July 21, 2014
  16. Link roundup July 6, 2014
  17. Link roundup June 14, 2014
  18. Link roundup May 18, 2014
  19. Full text indexing HOLLIS: a hacky mashup
  20. Link roundup May 12, 2014
  21. Link roundup April 11, 2014
  22. Link roundup march 26 2014
  23. Link roundup February 26, 2014
  24. Dan Cohen on the DPLA’s proposal to the FCC
  25. Link roundup February 17, 2014
  26. Awesome Box at PLA next week
  27. Link roundup January 31, 2014
  28. Awesome Box at PLA 2014. Thank you.
  29. Link roundup January 14, 2014

2013 29

  1. CURIOSity for collections
  2. Link roundup December 20, 2013
  3. Link roundup December 8, 2013
  4. Link roundup November 19, 2013
  5. Link roundup November 4, 2013
  6. Link roundup October 22, 2013
  7. Link roundup September 30, 2013
  8. Link roundup September 13, 2013
  9. Link roundup September 3, 2013
  10. Library Machines & SXSW: Gettin’ out the Vote!
  11. Perma.cc
  12. Link roundup August 10, 2013
  13. Awesome Box at Watertown
  14. Link roundup July 31, 2013
  15. Link roundup July 18, 2013
  16. Link roundup July 5, 2013
  17. Link roundup June 26, 2013
  18. Link roundup June 15, 2013
  19. What I learned at LODLAM
  20. Link roundup June 5, 2013
  21. Little Fox Shop
  22. media wall
  23. Overdue Redesign
  24. StackLife DPLA
  25. Awesome Box at Cleveland Institute of Music
  26. Hiring! A developer to chart the future of libraries
  27. Awesome Widget
  28. Awesome Boxes at Somerville Public Library
  29. Are publishers out-competing libraries? Podcast with Andrew Odlyzko

2012 31

  1. Boxes deployed, more data
  2. Library Innovation Lab Featured in Chronicle Of Higher Education
  3. Karen Coyle Unwraps Linked Data for the Rest of Us
  4. Hathi Trust’s copyright victory
  5. A conversation about the future of the book
  6. We read
  7. Library Test Kitchen, Fall 2012
  8. Our podcasts are now at SoundCloud
  9. Splashed some water on our face.
  10. Library e-book licensing: overview
  11. LIL on github
  12. The Setup – Annie Cain
  13. The Setup - Jessica Yurkofsky
  14. The Setup — Jeff Goldenson
  15. Down with Pound
  16. The Setup - Matt Phillips
  17. Time/Slice!
  18. Awesome Box signs, a work in progress
  19. “Extra - Extra”
  20. Quality Rules
  21. Awesome Box Pilot
  22. LIL on the West Coast
  23. BibSoup Beta!
  24. A couple photos
  25. [podcast] Karen Coyle on modern data for modern libraries
  26. [podcast] Sebastian Hammer on federated search
  27. Library Test Kitchen
  28. Library Lab/The Podcast 011: A Technological Graveyard?
  29. ASERL Webinar - ShelfLife and Stackview
  30. Library License
  31. LibraryCloud team to work on DPLA platform

2011 80

  1. LibraryCloud and ShelfLife on CBC
  2. [podcast] Alison Head on what students do in libraries
  3. ShelfLife and LibraryCloud on CBC
  4. Michael Jensen on NAP’s decision to publish for free
  5. Eric Frank on open textbooks
  6. Avi Warshavsky on the future of textbooks
  7. Library Lab/The Podcast 009: What Libraries Want
  8. Weekly Roundup: recent LIL happenings
  9. Royal Society goes open access
  10. ACRL supports open access declaration
  11. Occupy Wall Street: The Library
  12. DPLA Beta Sprint Finalists
  13. Robert Darnton on books, ebooks, Google Books, and the DPLA
  14. Bookbinding in the digital age
  15. Why libraries pulp and shred books
  16. Weekly Roundup: recent LIL happenings
  17. Dan Brickley’s Taxonomy of Everything
  18. Library Future.0
  19. How we assess credibility
  20. ShelfLife, LibraryCloud, and DPLA
  21. Library Lab/The Podcast 008: The Molecule of Data
  22. Library Lab/The Podcast 007: The Velocity of Books
  23. Michael S. Hart
  24. Podcast: Dan Brickley on libraries, linked data, and cataloguing the Web
  25. Library Lab/The Podcast 006: From Brick and Mortar to 1s and 0s
  26. Library Lab/The Podcast 005: Stock in Paper
  27. LibLabapalooza
  28. Podcasts now at iTunes
  29. Why don’t more academics do Open Access publishing?
  30. Library Lab/The Podcast 004: We Read in Public
  31. Library Lab/The Podcast 003: The Digital Citation
  32. We’re in the Digital Public Library of America beta sprint!
  33. Does anonymization work?
  34. Preserving the physical form
  35. MacKenzie Smith on open licenses for data and metadata
  36. Anra Kenney and Susan Chun on museum attendee data
  37. How to digitize a million books
  38. Eric Hellman on freeing works for all
  39. Kristin Eschenfelder on why cultural institutions worry about sharing
  40. Roy Tennant on OCLC and linked data
  41. Brewster Kahle reads from a prescient book
  42. OCLC to release 1 million bib records
  43. Library Lab/The Podcast 002: Free Knowledge
  44. Gaming the library
  45. A declaration of metadata openness
  46. Live from the DPLA: Martin Kalfatovic on museums, libraries, and linked open data
  47. Live from the DPLA: Rachel Frick on library collaboration
  48. DPLA announces “beta sprint”
  49. Live from the DPLA
  50. Live from the DPLA: Orphaned works
  51. The Future of the Library, According to Seth Godin
  52. Library Lab/The Podcast 001: Concrete Digital
  53. Metadata: The Video
  54. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, 1947
  55. Libraries can own the Kindle, but who owns the books?
  56. How-to guide for going Open Access
  57. OCLC’s world library stats
  58. The Pinakes database
  59. Melting point for open data: A model for books??
  60. Summer of Code? Funnest summer ever!
  61. Imperial College takes on Elsevier and Wiley Blackwell
  62. Dortmund University opens its bibliographic records
  63. OCLC and Cambridge experimenting with open catalog formats
  64. Has HarperCollins lost its mind or its soul?
  65. StackView: The Stop-Action Version
  66. Why do you, or don’t you, edit Wikipedia?
  67. Library Lab kicks off round of innovation
  68. ISBNs and ebooks
  69. Reflections on the Lab (about one year in for me at LIL)
  70. List of library projects
  71. Open Biblio challenge
  72. Creative Commons licenses gone from Brazilian government site
  73. personal paths through information
  74. This open access stuff is catching on!
  75. Library patrons empty its shelves to prove its value
  76. Principles for the Openness of Bibliographic Data to launch
  77. 75% of students still prefer print format for textbooks
  78. Adam’s leaves: New desktop metaphor
  79. Semantic Confetti
  80. The year in Open Access

2010 50

  1. Happy new year, libraries!
  2. Berkman Center Announces Digital Public Library Planning Initiative
  3. At least they’re warning us
  4. Peter Suber’s top Open Access biblio developments of 2010
  5. Interesting Twitter
  6. U of Michigan publishes 684,597 records
  7. Doc Searls loves librarians
  8. Dan Gillmor on archiving the Net
  9. Google Books Getting Circulation Data from Partner Libraries
  10. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Friday, October 29, 2010, 3-5pm
  11. Dave Pattern: Prestidigitator of metadata
  12. #FailShare for libraries
  13. Why you shouldn’t become an archivist
  14. To app or not to app
  15. Hacker News, Hack Monthly, Hacker Books
  16. Creative Commons Public Domain Mark Released
  17. Stephen Ramsay on the fungibility of librarians and scholars
  18. Who isn’t a book publisher these days?
  19. The Future of the Book -> but what about libraries?
  20. Save The Warburg Library! (With Collections Karaoke)
  21. On the communication of scale. (And respect)
  22. The words library and evil in the same sentence.
  23. Gosh, honey, you smell like the stacks!
  24. “If these walls could talk”
  25. Staff meeting notes - Sept. 14, 2010
  26. XPERT e-learning repository
  27. What we’re reading
  28. Status update: Sept. 7, 2010
  29. OED kisses paper goodbye
  30. Federal Learning Registry
  31. Open Access articles are cited more?
  32. Status update meeting notes
  33. Data this and Data That
  34. Frr with a Scottish Burr - MacBeth frbrized
  35. The library next door
  36. Holy cow, I’m a co-director!
  37. How many books?
  38. Computer-assisted human curation
  39. Harvard Library Lab to fund innovation
  40. Now playing: Fair Use clips of movies
  41. Top ten trends
  42. SpokenWord moves to human curation
  43. Lewis Hyde on The Commons
  44. Shelving Ideas for Later
  45. Library Hose analytics and this awesome video
  46. Summarized 10 Golden Principles of Web App Success, by Fred Wilson’s
  47. Writing, and publishing, for the computer
  48. Why is Scribblenauts so cool?
  49. Software is Media
  50. Address Bar Grammar

2009 18

  1. Metadata for the People (fist raised)
  2. Harvard Visual Digital Laboratory
  3. Legal Diagramming
  4. Playing with Mind Maps
  5. Playing with CMaps
  6. Interesting resources on web archiving on Wikipedia
  7. MobileRead a wiki dedicated to eBook technologies
  8. dpBestflow.org
  9. The World Digital Library
  10. New Planning Document from the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
  11. The Library Of Congress’ Experience
  12. Shake That Brain: How to Create Winning Solutions and Have Fun While You’re At It
  13. Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
  14. Flash page flipping...
  15. A couple of pointers on faceted search
  16. Learning to un-learn
  17. Life-size digital bookshelf
  18. Hello world!