Jessica Chapel
@jnchapel.bsky.social
Librarian in Boston. In former (work) lives, I've been a web developer, an editor, a turf writer, an archivist. Now I run digital infrastructure for the public good. #AI4LAM #FF2026
It's been gratifying to see the response to this project since we officially put it out into the world last week: www.bpl.org/news/boston-... #AI4LAM
Boston Public Library and Harvard IDI Release Open Dataset from 135 Years of Historic Newspapers
Newspapers represent one of the richest available primary sources for historical research — capturing not just major events, but births…
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When a newspaper becomes a wall of OCR text, columns collapse, headlines mix with ads, and reading order disappears. The Institutional Data Initiative (@institutional.org) and Boston Public Library (@bpl.boston.gov) built a pipeline and dataset to make historical newspapers more accessible.🧵
Making 1.47 Million Historical Newspaper Pages Available as High-Quality, Granular Data | IDI
The Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and Boston Public Library release an open dataset and processing pipeline that make historical newspapers more accessible for resear...
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I think about this every day: "The stakes have moved from access to synthesis." 📚
What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.
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