Matt Miller

Paper Marble GAN Exploring Latent Space Aug 28 2026 Besides old card catalogs probably nothing activates bibliophiles' neurons more than paper marble.

Building Bibliographic Superwork Clusters for Discovery with Local LLMs Judging work relationships in 88K clusters Aug 13 2026 Intro Links and Clusters Local LLM + Data Relationship Vocabulary Quality Evaluation OPAC Browse Interface Summary Intro In bibl…

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Email Visualization Visualizing 14,000 Released Epstein Emails Nov 24 2025 Browsing the 20,000 Epstein documents released by the House Oversight Committee using tools people built such as this searchable interface or even network graph is interesting but…

LCNAF & Trie Storing +11M unique LCNAF names in 50MB Trie data structure Nov 12 2025 Intro Trie Data Structure & LCNAF Application - Client Lookup and MARC Reconciliation Application - Interface for Humans Application - OpenRefine, Simple API and Command…

Giallo Using a vision language model to analyze Italian Giallo films Oct 31 2025 Intro Italian Giallo Films seem to be having a little resurgence recently.

Book Bans 2025 Analysis of PEN America Book Ban Data Oct 17 2025 Intro PEN America released their Book Bans 2025 list which aggregates books that have been banned in US school districts for 2024-2025.

Library of Congress & Flickr Commons Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images Oct 6 2025 Intro Flickr Commons is a program to bring the visual collections of cultural heritage organizations to new audiences.

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 Jul 30 2025 Intro I continue to experiment with LLM models finding very narrow tasks in my domain of cultural he…

Glitch Migration and Maintenance Jul 23 2025 Intro This month Glitch.com shut down, ending hosting for the projects there.

HathiTrust 1929 Pubic Domain Data and tools to explore 50,000 1929/2025 public domain titles in HathiTrust Feb 5 2025 Intro Towards the end of the year HathiTrust quietly posts a collection of their resources that are set to enter the public domain in the…

WoodBlockShop Using Segment Anything, LLaVA and other methods on a 14K image corpus Dec 16 2024 I came across people sharing the Plantin-Moretus Museum collection site and I really liked it.

Banned Metadata Analysis of PEN America 2022-2023 Banned and Challenged Book Metadata Sep 27 2024 Update: Data and analysis from 2025

Lomax & Whisper.cpp Automatic transcription of Alan Lomax’s 1938 Midwest Folk Song Collection using Whisper.cpp Sep 12 2024 Sound to Data Whisper(.cpp) Alan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings The Shape of Sound Many Models - Least Bad?

LCNAF Anagrams Apr 1 2024 LCNAF (Library of Congress Authority File) has over eleven million names of things ranging from people to geographic locations.

Migrating Your Docker Wikibase Mar 20 2024 At Semantic Lab @ Pratt we were early-ish adopters of the Wikibase Docker distrubtuion (now deprecated and archived, replaced with the wikibase-release-pipeline).

Using GPT on Library Collections Use cases for applying GPT3/3.5/4 on a full text collection March 30 2023 Intro Ground Rules Domain - Susan B Anthony Daybooks Correspondences Writings Comparing GPT3 / 3.5 / 4 Provenance Don’t call it Boutique Scale vs Vo…

Jan 6th Overflow 2022 Watching the live stream of Trump's speech on Jan 6th 2021 on YouTube I was struck by the comment section on the video.

Ley Lines An ongoing feed of drawing lines between things LinkNYC LinkNYC are kiosks throughout the street corners of New York City, they have big screens, wifi and do other computer stuff, like collect information on you, etc.

Animated Gifs in US Elections Mining the Library of Congress web archives for political Gifs Dec 1 2021 Intro Problem Space Official Gifs User Content Gifs Getting Weird With User Content Gifs Technical - How to get started working with this dataset Intro…

Leeks: ParkMobile What's in a (car) name?

Repeated Hunt 2020, 7 minutes These layered 18th century hand colored engravings come from the collection of Caroline King Duer who gave them to the Cooper Hewitt.

Example Tweet Example Tweet ISBN Uh-Oh Dec 2020, Twitter Bot ISBNs are numbers given books by publishers to help uniquely identify them.

Ostraca 2020, 2 hours 34 minutes In the weeks after the 2020 presidential election you could stream live video of the Philadelphia vote counting process.

Non-Renewed Copyright Analysis Digging into NYPL's digitized CCE Corpus Jul 22 2020 Intro Due to the bizarre nature of US copyright many works published in the mid-20th century are actually in the public domain.

Library of Congress Web Archives Big Picture Apr 23 2020 It was great to see the web archiving team at the Library of Congress recently celebrate twenty years of archiving.

Maya Lin's Eclipsed Time Time telling in a pandemic Apr 12 2020 “Time is broken” seems to be the thing everyone can agree with lately.

Smithsonian Open Access Data Release A First Look Feb 28 2020 The Smithsonian Open Access release has put a trove of cultural heritage digital assets and data in the public commons.

Repotting Old Digital Humanities Projects Two Test Cases Jan 31 2020 Knowing how to stop doing things is an important skill to learn.

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