Dutch letters, seized from ships captured in war and left dormant in a British archive. This explains the Sailing Letters / Brieven als Buit project, which turned them into a language corpus with diplomatic transcription and detailed metadata, focusing on the technical aspects of data construction.
The Venice Time Machine tried to machine-read the public records of the Republic of Venice and build a "Big Data of the Past." This article explains, from a mainly technical viewpoint, its technical pipeline of scanning, handwritten text recognition, and graph building, along with the data-quality problems that surfaced in 2019.
I updated the layer slideshow plugin, originally published for Mirador 3, to support Mirador 4. This involved migrating the build from nwb to Vite and replacing Material-UI v4 with MUI v7.
A hands-on guide to Mirador Annotation Editor Video, a Mirador 4 plugin for adding both spatial and temporal annotations to IIIF video, covering how to set a temporal target, using the official demo.
A hands-on guide to Mirador Annotation Editor, a plugin that adds annotation creation and editing to the Mirador 4 IIIF image viewer, from creating an annotation to exporting it, using the official demo.
A hands-on guide to IMMARKUS, an open-source tool for adding semantic annotations to IIIF images in W3C Web Annotation format, from first launch to standards-based export, using the Hyakki Yagyo scroll from the University of Tokyo Digital Archive.
A hands-on look at TEI Tools, a browser-only tool for converting Word documents to TEI/XML and for visualizing TEI/XML files, using the bundled sample files.
A Mirador 4 plugin that displays a physical scale ruler overlay using the IIIF Physical Dimensions service.