→ Upcoming Episode: Inside Harvard's data.gov Archive

Featuring:	Jack Cushman Jed Sundwall
Date:	19 Nov 2025
Time:	11:00 AM PST

Join us for a conversation with Jack Cushman from the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab about their Data.gov archive – a collection of more than 311,000 datasets that is updated daily and published on Source Cooperative.

We’ll discuss:

BagIt for durability: how Library of Congress–standard packaging, checksums, and signatures support authenticity, provenance, and long-term citation.
Discovery without a server: how they created their Data.gov Archive Search which makes 17.9 TB of datasets findable and fast to explore in the browser without a server.
The concept of Collections as Data and the future of online archives.

→ Episode 2: Protomaps and PMTiles

Jed talks with Brandon Liu about Protomaps, PMTiles, and why a compelling base map as a data product matters. We cover open-source, customizable alternatives to Google Maps, how PMTiles enables single-file, static hosting, and practical ergonomics that help developers put maps on the web.

→ Episode 1: Why LLM Progress is Getting Harder

Jed Sundwall and Drew Breunig explore why LLM progress is getting harder by examining the foundational data products that powered AI breakthroughs. They discuss how we’ve consumed the “low-hanging fruit” of internet data and graphics innovations, and what this means for the future of AI development.