8 stories tagged digital-humanities, newest first.
148 points by edwardog | 80 comments
A project site presenting the 1505 Löffelholz Codex, a Nuremberg knight's tool book, page by page with facsimiles, transcriptions, modern readings and interpretations.
173 points by piratebroadcast | 88 comments
Blog post describing how the author used AI to search 400 years of historical records, surfacing a forgotten meteorite report, lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcanic eruptions.
278 points by benbreen | 113 comments
Dan Cohen's newsletter essay on how a group of historians spent years conceiving Zotero, the research application later used by millions.
206 points by benbreen | 64 comments
Res Obscura Substack post by Benjamin Breen on using the Opus 5.5 AI model to find a previously unknown eyewitness account of the dodo.
160 points by benbreen | 38 comments
A Res Obscura Substack post by historian Benjamin Breen arguing AI labs should fund historical research, with examples of using frontier LLMs to trace alchemy and decode 17th-century letters.
325 points by ahaspel | 107 comments
Britannica11.org is a structured online edition of the 1910–1911 Eleventh Edition Encyclopædia Britannica, browsable by articles, contributors, and topics.
826 points by iamwil | 396 comments
GitHub repository serving as an information hub for a project training large language models exclusively on historical texts published before 1913.
373 points by LorenDB | 99 comments
Homepage of OCR4all, an open-source optical character recognition toolset with setup guides, user guides, and developer documentation.