lil (library innovation lab)
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A crowd of coders, lawyers, librarians, designers, & tinkerers typing away next to @HLSlib. Home of @caselawaccess @permacc @opencasebook. Where @instd began
Cambridge, MA
Joined July 2011
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
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Thrilled to share that @maxnc's "Century-Scale Storage" was nominated for a Webby Award!. You can vote in the "Best Individual Editorial Feature" category here:
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RT @maxnc: The big long essay “Century-Scale Storage” that I wrote for @HarvardLIL back in December has been nominated for a Webby Award fo….
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"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." .
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If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?
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👇
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More news! @instdin 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. Thrilled to see it thrive!
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RT @maxnc: ICYMI Century-Scale Storage came out yesterday, a massive multi-section essay I wrote on the present and future perils of digita….
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If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?
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Read the essay here: . Words: @maxnc .Art & Design: @shheeelllbby & @spacefillerart .Editing: @clare__stanton .Add'l Editing: Meg Miller, Gillian Brassil.Web accessibility: Rebecca Cremona & Ben Steinberg.
lil.law.harvard.edu
If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?
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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👇
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📣The Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law is hiring a full stack Senior Software Engineer to help us build tools that bring library principles to technological frontiers! Apply here:
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The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
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Come help us build stuff like the Caselaw Access Project
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The Harvard Library Innovation Lab is hiring an Engineering Director to help us bring library principles to technological frontiers! Apply here:
lil.law.harvard.edu
The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
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It's #webarchivingwednesday so settle in for a good read! . Check out the latest on our blog: a technical dive into Scoop, the production-ready building block for witnessing the web.
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There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to web archiving techniques, and the variety of tools and services available to capture web content illustrate th...
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It's true! For folks interested in the deep dive, we also just posted a longer-form look at the technical decisions that drove development:
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There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to web archiving techniques, and the variety of tools and services available to capture web content illustrate th...
Inspired by Filecoin Foundation dev grant recipient @webrecorder_io, @harvardLIL ‘s Perma team is releasing Scoop, a software building block for any individual or organization creating a decentralized web archive.
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RT @artefactors: The folks behind have launched Scoop, a "high-fidelity, browser-based, single-page web archiving c….
perma.cc
Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite.
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LIL is hiring! We're wrapping up resume review for our open positions: Product & Research Director; Engineering Manager; Senior UX Designer/Researcher; and User Support Coordinator. Read more and apply here:
lil.law.harvard.edu
The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
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Co-hosted by LIL director Jack Cushman! . Plus, check out other great programming by @hlslib, including a fireside chat this Thursday between LIL fellow @molly0xFFF and @zittrain.
Wednesday! HLS Beyond brings you. Brownbag “Playshop”: Getting Hands on with ChatGPT.1/11, 12:30-1:30pm, 232/233 Langdell. Staff, Faculty and Students welcome!.More Info Here:
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