Projects & innovations

Artificial intelligence

The Library AI initiative at Stanford is a program to identify, design, and enact applications of machine perception, machine learning, machine reasoning, and language recognition that will help us make our rich collections of maps, photographs, manuscripts, data sets, and other assets more easily discoverable, accessible, and analyzable.
Authorial London

Explore literary references to London locations in texts by 47 authors, written over 6 centuries.
Bibliopedia

A platform for organizing, visualizing, sharing, and searching archives.
Born Digital Archiving & eXchange

Born Digital Archiving & eXchange will be held on March 28th, 2017. Themes for this years BDAX will are focused on the recovery of data from obsolete computer media and born digital workflows.
Cabrinety-NIST Project

A collaborative large-scale digital preservation effort between Stanford Libraries and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) to create forensic disk images and photographic scans of the software series in the Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection in the History of Microcomputing, ca. 1975-1995.
Çatalhöyük Living Archive

Using spatial-temporal visualization and Linked Data to make 20+ years of excavation results accessible. Principal Investigator: Ian Hodder, Department of Anthropology.
Chinese Railroad Workers Project

Understanding how Chinese migrants whose labor on the Transcontinental Railroad helped to shape the physical and social landscape of the American West.
City Nature

Explore and analyze uneven distributions of natural spaces at neighborhood scale in large US cities. Principal Investigators: Jon Christensen and Michael Kahan
Cultural Heritage Imaging Professionals Conference

A meeting of digitization and imaging experts involved in large scale, high quality image digitization programs at Libraries, Archives and Museums.
Digital Forensics

The Digital Forensics lab analyzes, preserves and provides access to born-digital archival materials.
Digital Manuscript Interoperability

In the real world, medieval scholars work with materials from many libraries; interoperability lets them do the same in the digital world.
Dr. Sam-Chung Hsieh Memorial Lecture

Dr. Sam-Chung Hsieh Memorial Lecture series honors his legacy and inspires future generations.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Information about electronic theses and dissertations at Stanford.
Emerging Technologies Team

The ETT identifies, tests, and assesses new and emerging technologies for the academic library environment.
ePADD

ePADD is a software package that supports archival processes around the appraisal, ingest, processing, discovery, and delivery of email archives.
Everyday Electronic Materials (EEMs)

Everyday Electronic Materials (EEMs) is a set of policy and practices created for selectors to add electronic items of scholarly interest to Stanford’s collections, leveraging the Stanford Digital Repository online deposit tool to also catalog and preserve the content.
Gear Up for Research

Gear Up for Research at Stanford is a research fair for graduate students and post-docs from all schools and departments on campus.
Geography of the Post

Geography of the Post visualized 14,000 postoffices in the 19th century American West. Principal Investigator: Cameron Blevins
Google Books

Stanford is one of the libraries partnering with Google in this project to digitize, and make searchable, tens of millions of books.
Grave Reform in Modern China

This project uses digital tools to analyze and narrate the story of funeral reform and grave relocation. Faculty PI: Thomas Mullaney, History
Hydra-in-a-Box

A collaboration focused on developing a next-generation, feature-rich, robust, flexible digital repository that advances the goals of the cultural heritage community using the latest web technologies.
Hypatia / AIMS demo

Hypatia—a Hydra application—was a grant funded proof-of-concept to support accessioning, arrangement, description, discovery, delivery, and long term preservation of born digital archival collections.
International Image Interoperability Framework

An international effort to build a framework for sharing digitized images across digital library repositories.
Kindred Britain

A network of 30,000 people, including many iconic figures in British culture, connected through family relationships. Principal Investigator: Nicholas Jenkins, English.
LDCX

LDCX is a series of technology conferences for libraries and related cultural heritage institutions
Learning and Using R at Stanford

Training opportunities, consulting services, documentation, and other resources to support the Stanford community in learning and using the R software.
Linked Data

Designing a scalable, prototype system to demonstrate the viability and efficacy of a linked data environment for improving discovery and navigation.
LOCKSS

LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) provides libraries with digital preservation tools to easily and inexpensively collect and preserve their own copies of authorized e-content.
Mass Shootings in America

The Stanford Geospatial Center has created this site to help people analyze the data related to the mass shootings in the United States over the past few decades.
Media Preservation Lab

The Stanford Media Preservation Lab (SMPL) serves to preserve and enhance access to original sound and moving image collection materials held by Stanford University Libraries.
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman Empire

Explore and analyze routes and costs associated with travel and commerce in the Roman Empire. Principal Investigator: Walter Scheidel, Classics
Palladio

Palladio is a web-based platform for the visualization of complex, multi-dimensional data. Palladio is being supported by the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR) and Humanities + Design, a lab of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis.
Personal Digital Archiving 2017

PDA showcases scholarship on personal digital archiving and personal information management.
Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group

The organization is focused on sharing open computing solutions and best practices
Preserving Virtual Worlds

The Preserving Virtual Worlds project explores methods for preserving digital games and interactive fiction.
Revs Program

Creating a digital repository and online research environment supporting research on automotive history
RIALTO: A Stanford Research Intelligence System

RIALTO is a library project which seeks to report on Stanford's research output by consolidating data from disparate systems and providing analytics.
Science Boot Camp West (SBCW) 2015

Science boot camps for librarians feature educational presentations delivered by scientists plus discussion and information sharing.
Silicon Valley Archives

Stanford’s Silicon Valley Archives identify, preserve, and make the documentary record of science and technology available to students, scholars, and the general public.
Stanford Campus Mapping Project

Stanford Geospatial Center has created a series of campus web mapping applications showcasing the latest trends in geospatial technology.
Stanford Library Publication and Citation Tracking Database

The Stanford University Library Publication and Citation Tracking Database harvests and stores citations and biographical information for works authored by Stanford researchers.
Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL)

This award recognizes individual research libraries for sustained and significant innovation in any operational area.
The Player Piano Project

The home of the Player Piano Project, including information about piano rolls, players, and supporting research materials.
Web Archiving

Collecting, preserving, and providing access to at-risk web content for institutional, public, and scholarly uses.
Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) Initiative

WEST is a collaborative, sustainable journal archiving program
William Saroyan International Prize for Writing

Prize guidelines and application information.
Wreden Prize

The Byra J. and William P. Wreden Prize for Collecting Books and Related Materials

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