Ying-Hsiang Huang
yh-huang.bsky.social
Ying-Hsiang Huang
@yh-huang.bsky.social
Software Dev Engineer @ King County Library System
Prior Research Assistant @ UW eScience Institute
Prior Linked Data Metadata Specialist @ UW Libraries
We will continue to evolve the system and are grateful for any feedback or contributions from anyone interested in exploratory search, multimodal IR, or digital collections research!
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Reposted by Ying-Hsiang Huang
1/ Announcing GovScape – a public search system for 10 million U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages)! GovScape offers visual search, semantic text search, and keyword search. Explore below:

Website: www.govscape.net
ArXiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.11010
www.govscape.net
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Reposted by Ying-Hsiang Huang
With @yh-huang.bsky.social, I'm excited to share our Digital Collections Explorer, an open-source, multimodal viewer for digital collections! Users can search with both natural language inputs and reverse image search.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00961
Public demo: digital-collections-explorer.com
Digital Collections Explorer: An Open-Source, Multimodal Viewer for Searching Digital Collections
We present Digital Collections Explorer, a web-based, open-source exploratory search platform that leverages CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) for enhanced visual discovery of digital col...
arxiv.org
July 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Thrilled to see our Digital Collections Explorer live!
It's been a pleasure working on this multimodal search system. Huge thanks to @bcgl.bsky.social for the invaluable guidance and support throughout this project 🙌
July 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM