Thanks so much, I appreciate it!

Thanks so much for your kind words - I really appreciate them, and I'm glad that the piece resonated with you! And thank you for your work, too, in having volunteered as a docent and being the family archivist!

Thanks so much, Scott - very kind of you to say!

I really appreciate your kind words, @dhutchinson.bsky.social!

Thanks so much, @jenserventi.bsky.social - I truly appreciate it!

I’m incredibly grateful to @cherilucasrowlands.com for working with me on this piece and providing such thoughtful edits throughout the writing process!

Thanks so much! Yes, we're planning to publish on the survey - we're hoping it'll be useful to the community!

Thanks so much! Really appreciate it!

By all means - that sounds amazing! Really appreciate the kind words and interest. I’d love to catch up sometime soon over zoom - I’ll send you an email to find a time if that sounds good!

Really appreciate it, Katie! And hope all is well with you!

Thanks so much! Hope all is well with you!

It was fantastic to collaborate with Ying-Hsiang on this project, who did such incredible work!

The public demo (digital-collections-explorer.com) enables searching over 500,000 map images from the Library of Congress's API. For example, search for "tattered and worn map"

With our Digital Collections Explorer, a collection steward can spin up a local viewer with just a few lines of code. An overview of the Digital Collections Explorer architecture can be found in this overview figure.

The full codebase is available here: github.com/hinxcode/dig...