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Library Innovation Lab
@harvardlil.bsky.social
A crowd of coders, lawyers, librarians, designers, & tinkerers building tools like Perma.cc & Caselaw Access Project at the Harvard Law School Library. Where
@institutionaldatainitiative.org got started.

🌐 https://lil.law.harvard.edu
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-...
January 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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!
December 12, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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!
December 11, 2024 at 3:34 PM