I noticed something interesting in the #HTR that #Gemini produced from this #Hebrew letter today: עֵת נִפְרְדָה פְּרַאנְסִיס מֵאֲהָבֶיהָ הוּסַר מִבֵּית כֹּהֵן כְּלִיל תִּפְאֶרֶת עָלֶיהָ בָּכוּ עֲנִיֵּי עַם יַעַן נֶעֱדֶרֶת זוֹרַעַת חֶסֶד בִּתְבוּנוֹת כַּפֶּיהָ

Do they eat feral hogs in Texas?

I'm getting really excited about tomorrow's webinar. Not because I think it'll be our best--editing historic account books is pretty niche, and the presenter (me) is way out of his depth--but because it's on my own historical research. content.fromthepage.com/aug-2026-web...

my god, we’ve been going about this all wrong 🙄

I'm getting very tired of LLM-based spam. No, I don't think that you've "booked 100 calls" with companies buying manuscript transcription in the last month, Caleb.

Join me this Thursday to walk through my process transcribing 19th-century account books in a quest to memorialize people buried in a Virginia slave cemetery. Editing Historic Account Books: When and Whether to Use AI (August 20, 2026) content.fromthepage.com/aug-2026-web...

Oh god. I've just heard. The poor man. And in the final reckoning, all of us who participated in the furore on social media — even out of the best of motives and with care — were ultimately part of the mob. I am sorry. I am so sorry to his family and loved ones. The poor man.

Dust off your cursive skills by transcribing handwritten letters from authors like influential journalist Ambrose Bierce or native Californian Gertrude Atherton. Head over to From the Page and check out our collections recently uploaded to fromthepage.com/castatelibra...

Early modern recipe books are like

100 years puts me at my great-grandparents generation, but I know what they were doing: Tobacco farmer Tobacco farmer Tobacco farmer Tobacco farmer My grandparents would have been approximately 10 years old, but they would have been pulling leaves or tying hands with the adults, depending on gender.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last mo.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

I've been worrying about cognitive atrophy and moral disengagement from #AI use for a while, but it really bit me today. My dev machine is in the shop, and so Sara and I were using her laptop to run some Claude Code sessions. One session was for a one-off script to run analytics and report in CSV

Hey fellow DOGED-friends: did you get the message from the NEH that they're setting up a process for reinstatement? This seems like significant progress. Thanks to the staff at NEH who are doing the work behind the scenes to address the mistakes others imposed on their agency

How efficient is AI at transcribing a deluxe medieval manuscript? That's the wrong question! Some thoughts from a conversation with medievalist @lauramorreale.bsky.social and a letter from the pope. app.bentonow.com/share/bX0mnj...

The difficult part of any technological infrastructure that has been incorporated into an institution is that generally the institution has hollowed out whatever services and roles that technological was brought in to modify or replace, so uncoupling is an expensive and messy prospect.

In just under two hours, we're hosting @jonippolito.net in a webinar presenting his research on the environmental impact of #AI use compared with other common digital technologies. Register for "How Green is your Prompt" webinar here: content.fromthepage.com/april-2026-w...

Final thought on Paul Ehrlich: I happened to see him speak twice, once at HS graduation in ’90s and once at conference sponsored by Fortune (!?) in ’00s. Both times he offered same, disproven “population bomb” warnings he’d made for decades. As joke goes, he predicted ten of the next zero famines.

I stumbled across something interesting during a live demo in yesterday's webinar. Not having anything prepared, I tried a page in the Queens University Archives' Riel Resistance Collection. The hand was extraordinarily difficult for me, even though it was late 19th-century North American script

📌 Where to find us: 🔍 Browse our digital collections -- thousands of rare maps, manuscripts, postcards, and more, all free and online collections.newberry.org ✍️ Help us transcribe historical documents on Newberry Transcribe (no experience needed, just curiosity) nt.newberry.org

We're 75 minutes away from our webinar on responsible AI use in FromThePage--the challenges we face from AI and how we're addressing (some of) them: content.fromthepage.com/feb-2026-web...

Quick blog post noting some thoughts on 'Documenting AI-created/enhanced records in catalogues/metadata/displays' - I'd love to know who's already doing it, and how? www.openobjects.org.uk/2026/02/docu... #AI4LAM #MuseTech

I am very excited to report that a project I have been working on for 3+ years is finally seeing the light of day! Along with @byzcapp.bsky.social and Jesse Torgerson, we debut a new annual section in Digital Philology that proposes the dataset as a new genre of publication. odfms.hcommons.org

This is the first time we've been willing to add LLM-supported transcription to FromThePage. Last week's webinar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhqR...

Introducing Gemini 3.0 Support in FromThePage

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I'm not ready to discard the entire ecosystem we've built around making data openly available to possibly, hopefully slightly impair commercial AI training. Users uploading data (they often don't have the right to relicense for AI training) into AI models is a drop in the ocean.

My worry here is that tabular, numerical info is much easier to decipher and standardize, so it gets turned into a dataset without…

Tom Scheinfeldt@foundhistory.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Think about: - Scientists' lab notebooks with abandoned experiments that might be promising with today's technology - Rejected grant proposals addressing problems we can now tackle - Field notes from geological surveys - Medical case files, engineering reports, meteorological observations

In four hours we will present our experiments integrating #gemini AI #transcription into the #crowdsourcing platform #FromThePage content.fromthepage.com/dec-2025-web...

"From a transcribers point of view I will be very unlikely now to continue devoting time to working on straightforward handwritten documents without an AI draft as a starting point ." She plans to attend our webinar this Thursday and might be willing to talk about her experience.

An update: after a week of testing, the same volunteer is now very happy: "I have been very pleased to use the AI facility in transcribing Nicholas Piper Log books for Whitby Literary & Philosophical Society." ...

It looks like we passed another milestone on FromThePage last week:

But it really feels like libraries & archives as a field suddenly just went from "we aren't generally attempting to do automated handwriting recognition because it's at the edge of what's possible" to "oh boy now we have another doable but labor-intensive collections enhancement task on the backlog"