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LCNAF & Trie – Storing +11M unique names in 50MB data structure in the browser

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- Optimizing LCNAF authorized headings into a trie data structure
- In browser MARC file name reconciliation + search tool
- OpenRefine / Command line tools for reconciliation
LCNAF & Trie
Storing +11M unique LCNAF names in 50MB Trie data structure
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November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Halloween blog post: Italian Giallo Horror Films

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- Using vision language model to analyze a 70 film corpus (🧟) / 80,000 frames
- Build and plot “trope clusters” across movies

Probably the longest eye acting supercut you've seen: youtu.be/cGrmkOwut6k
Giallo
Using a vision language model to analyze Italian Giallo films
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October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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New Post: PEN America Banned Books 2025 dataset
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Looking at school district book bans

- Interactive Map interface to the books banned in 2024-2025
- A faceted browse interface to the 3700 books
- Subject heading analysis
Shows a county map of the united states the counties with school districts with banned books are highlighted red. A screenshot of a the banned book browser interface showing rows of book covers.
October 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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New Blog Post.
Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images
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- Organizing 95K photo comments.
- Viewer to explore user georectified images
- Folksonomy tagging vs LCSH Vocabulary
- Placing into the Wiki* knowledge graph
LC & Flickr Commons
Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images.
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October 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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One output, 1 hour 40mins of Siskel and Ebert summaries:
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July 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Trying out workflows that use multimodal LLMs for validating and QA.

In this blog I walk through a test using 1000 Siskel and Ebert videos to extract key video frames and other data.

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Building datasets from video collections using local & cloud LLMs
Using Qwen2.5-VL, Gemini 2.5 and Whisper to build a Siskel and Ebert dataset
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July 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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maintenance
A woodcut mashup image titled: maintenance
July 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.

Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉

🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
July 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Phoebe Cates-Kline, Sylvester Stallone, Hulk Hogan, Zach Galligan, Christopher Lee
Watch Review
wp / wd
A screen capture from the Siskel and Ebert Show reviewing the movie Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Ebert gave it a thumbs down. Siskel gave it a thumbs down.
July 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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New blog post about @glitch.com shutdown, how I migrated my apps, and how I used glitch for teaching and creative projects.
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July 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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The Library of Congress BIBFRAME Update is online today at 1PM EDT.
Talks about:
- Hubs (BF ontology)
- BF Cataloging at Penn Libraries
- BF Validation Tooling
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June 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Yeah we have bots endlessly flooding id.loc.gov stressing servers to the limit trying to scrape millions of html pages even though we offer pretty much all of it as bulk downloads: id.loc.gov/download/
June 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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ideal
A collage of fern illustrations over a color gradient. Images from: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108032#page/168/mode/2up https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107961#page/240/mode/2up https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108042#page/116/mode/2up https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108040#page/92/mode/2up https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107961#page/260/mode/2up https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108510#page/206/mode/2up https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108787#page/118/mode/2up
May 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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A new very chill bot, for these very un-chill times.
Posts FERNS from "Ferns: British and exotic..." by E. J. Lowe. 8 vols 1856-1860.
Makes a new collage every 8 hours.
fernbot.bsky.social FernBot🌿 @fernbot.bsky.social · May 15
judicious
A collage of fern illustrations over a color gradient. Images from: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108042#page/116/mode/2up https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108040#page/100/mode/2up https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108042#page/186/mode/2up
May 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Interesting! Because they just terminated their grant for the Post45 Data Collective, which preserves and establishes access to collections of literary and cultural data!
rbtownsend.bsky.social Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · Apr 30
NEH announces a new funding opportunity to support "projects that develop and implement educational programs for professionals who preserve and provide access to humanities collections" bit.ly/43aviek
Preservation and Access Education and Training
Supports the development of knowledge and skills among professionals responsible for preserving and establishing access to humanities collections.
bit.ly
May 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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If you need me I’ll be in…
Photograph of kraftwerk performing at Coachella the screen reads COMPUTERWORLD
April 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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waiting for the dead bodies to arrive, but they're not doing me any favors
A woodcut mashup image titled: waiting for the dead bodies to arrive, but they're not doing me any favors
March 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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It’s true, and /r/pslf is full of community bureaucratic evocation tips: “did you try the wet signature doc upload ritual?” or “are you sure you used this exact text in your reconsideration request summoning?” that are unclear if they ever actually work.
violetbfox.bsky.social Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · Mar 10
New minizine: "$93,605 : A Student Loan Ghost Story."

Framing it as a 30-year haunting starts to get at the impact #StudentDebt has had on my life. 👻 Read it online for free at violetbfox.info/minizines/.
Cover of a zine with a clipart ghost drawing and the title "$93,605 : A Student Loan Ghost Story"
March 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I wrote a bit about turning triples into pie charts.
A screenshot of https://semlab.io/property-explorer/ its of two pie charts connected by a line it shows what percentage of entities are connected via the "collaborated with" property in our Wikibase database.
March 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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lallen.bsky.social
We’ve posted a job ad to join our team at LC Labs.

I am very proud and excited about the work we have planned. Please share.

I’ll also mention that we are part of the legislative branch and this is a partner-supported project.

www.usajobs.gov/job/832669800
Sr. Innovation Specialist
<p>This position is located in the Digital Innovation Division, Digital Strategy Directorate, Office of the Chief Information Officer.</p> <p>The position description number for this position is 35903...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Untitled
A woodcut mashup image titled: Untitled
February 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Less Gemini AI in my gmail and more fixing the broken Bus Stop theme that I've used for the last 15+ years
screen shot of the theme selection in gmail with bus stop theme selected and the theme not being applied in the background
February 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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"How to tell the birds from the flowers and other wood-cuts." 1929 public domain book.
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found via
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wood block print of of a clover plant and a plover bird, they looks the same. wood block print of a kale plant and a quail bird, they looks the same. Wood block print of a carrot and a parrot bird, they looks the same. Wood block print of a hen bird and a piece of lichen, they looks the same.
February 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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New blog post: Three interfaces to explore the 50,000 1929 HathiTrust resources that entered the public domain last month

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Hathi PD 2025
Data and tools to explore 50,000 1929 public domain titles in HathiTrust
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February 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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preparing for department of ed shutdown potentiality, downloading all my info, and just looking at my pslf dashboard... "he was just three days from retirement"...almost made it :(
screen shot of my public service loan forgiveness payment counts showing i only need to make 3 more payments for my obligation to be finished :(
February 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM