Welcome to the DLD Labs

This site contains software and experimental projects developed by the Caltech Library’s Digital Library Development Group. The majority of these projects are hosted at GitHub and available under Open Source licenses.

• Project Documentation Index

Examples, Presentations and selected posts

• Selected Posts
  • Building Web Components using Large Language Models
  • Language models and fielded search
  • Google Chrome DNS problems
• A recipe for applications: Dataset & Web Components, virtual, 2025-06-12
• COLD, curating objects with SQLite3, Deno and Dataset, SoCal Code4Lib Meetup at Caltech, 2024-11-15
• Experiments with PostgREST, SoCal Code4Lib Meetup, 2023-07-14
• A Multipass OpenSearch Machine, 2024-03-13
• Building software at the edges of heterogeneous repositories at Open Repositories 2018

Projects, Tools and Languages

• Easy installs for Linux, macOS and Windows
• Harvesters and Systems integration
• Looking for Metadata and Web Resources
• Tooling for Languages
• Virtual Machines and Containers

Finding things

• Search Selected Projects
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