Elara "Aether_Forge_88" Reed

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The Archive

Every field dispatch we have published, ordered by year and bound in the running record of the magazine. Browse by year, or use the search in the navigation bar to find a specific subject.

2026

LIDAR reveals an 11-kilometre lost Mayan causeway under the Petén canopy

Training a transformer on Linear B: what 1,427 tablets do and don't teach a 90-million-parameter model

Walking through the Karnak hypostyle hall in VR: what the model gets right, and what it can't

Troubleshooting: Present audio and video with IIIF

The ethics of digitally reconstructing destroyed heritage

Troubleshooting: Model signed and hostile ties

Reconcile place names in your data: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Sustain a crowdsourcing community

Best Practices to Test a format migration safely

A photogrammetry workflow for fragile manuscripts that won't touch the page

Best Practices to Evaluate historical NER quality

Best Practices to Make OpenRefine cleaning reproducible

Best Practices to Publish place data as GeoJSON

Best Practices to Navigate corpus licensing

Best Practices to Evaluate a digital humanities project

Appraise records for selection: A Practical Guide

What we found inside a sealed Roman amphora at Boscoreale using XRF

Troubleshooting: Map locations with uncertainty

Which file formats are still going to be readable in 2076?

Design accessible colour palettes: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Understand Wikidata licensing

Best Practices to Fix common TEI validation errors

Troubleshooting: Add Schema.org markup to collections

Best Practices to Do photogrammetry of monuments

Back up and migrate Omeka: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Reconstruct kinship networks

Resolve coreference in historical text: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Document scientific imaging paradata

How to Publish with the Linked Places format

Build a parallel-text edition: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Use LOCKSS for distributed preservation

Pipeline crowdsourced data into systems: A Practical Guide

Embed rights metadata in files: A Practical Guide

How to Redact born-digital documents

Publish finding aids with AtoM: A Practical Guide

Resolve entities across records: A Practical Guide

Merge multiple gazetteers: A Practical Guide

How to Automate edits with Wikidata bots

Best Practices to Manage Python environments

Best Practices to Estimate IIIF hosting cost

Best Practices to Visualise space and time together

Best Practices to Run a pre-deposit curation checklist

Transcribe Tables in Transkribus

Best Practices to Embed capture metadata in images

Best Practices to Display a critical apparatus on the web

Handle large datasets in OpenRefine: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Run a reproducibility checklist

Transform TEI to HTML with XSLT: A Practical Guide

Date paper by watermarks: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Use nanopublications for assertions

Define significant properties: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Assess OCR quality impact on analysis

Archive code on Zenodo: A Practical Guide

Archive a single web page well: A Practical Guide

Design a balanced corpus: A Practical Guide

Quantify uncertainty in estimates: A Practical Guide

How to Manage risk in DH projects

Plan a data handoff at project end: A Practical Guide

Texture 3D heritage models: A Practical Guide

Choose a triplestore: A Practical Guide

Fetch web data with OpenRefine: A Practical Guide

Rely on fair dealing for research: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Plan ethics review for DH projects

2025

Best Practices to Plan retrospective catalogue conversion

Troubleshooting: Read Anglo-Saxon minuscule

Best Practices to Code categorical historical variables

Best Practices to Plan born-digital storage

When to Crawl archives with Scrapy

When to Analyse multilayer historical networks

When to Expose archival description as LOD

When to Visualise gaps in the record

When to Compare two corpora statistically

When to Apply MIX technical image metadata

Fuzzy match names in Python: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Merge and reconcile CSV sources

Digitise glass plate negatives: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Write a takedown and notice policy

Best Practices to Choose a digital collection platform

Beginner's Guide to Significance with historical data

Beginner's Guide to Digitisation timelines

When to Use OCR confidence scores

How to Share executable notebooks

Best Practices to Record provenance metadata

Link TEI transcriptions to IIIF: A Practical Guide

Add discovery metadata to datasets: A Practical Guide

Beginner's Guide to Wikidata lexemes for historical words

How to Describe correspondence series

How to Mine text despite OCR noise

How to Choose diplomatic vs normalised transcription

Beginner's Guide to Relations between entities

Make digital editions accessible: A Practical Guide

How to Fix character encoding in OpenRefine

Best Practices to Estimate web archive storage cost

How to Mark up names and places in TEI

Visualise large historical networks: A Practical Guide

Beginner's Guide to D3 for historical visualisation

Troubleshoot multispectral capture: A Practical Guide

Choose static vs interactive visuals: A Practical Guide

Transfer born-digital safely: A Practical Guide

Quality Control Transkribus Output

How to Call heritage APIs with Python

When to Use the IIIF Change Discovery API

Geocode places in Python: A Practical Guide

When to Work with historical parish boundaries

When to Write preservation action plans

Beginner's Guide to A manuscript description

When to Use the World Historical Gazetteer

When to Transcribe medieval marginalia

When to Link authority files to Wikidata

When to Add metadata to a corpus

When to Distinguish scribal hands in one manuscript

When to Analyse ego networks of historical figures

Beginner's Guide to Metadata quality

When to Export and template OpenRefine output

How to Curate Jupyter notebooks for reuse

When to Handle nested historical entities

Beginner's Guide to Pipelines with Make

When to Choose series vs item-level description

Beginner's Guide to Legal issues in web archiving

Automate Transkribus With the API

Troubleshooting: Choose the right chart for history

When to Emulate legacy software for access

How to Recover faded iron gall ink

When to Add IIIF content search

How to Decide outsource vs in-house digitisation

How to Annotate charts with historical context

Beginner's Guide to Regex on sources in Python

Troubleshooting: Do cohort analysis in history

Troubleshooting: Adopt minimal computing

Troubleshooting: Choose embedded vs sidecar metadata

Troubleshooting: Navigate digital edition peer review

When to Validate TEI against a schema

When to Use Jupyter notebooks for history

Write Ground Truth Transcription Guidelines

When to Use CLTK for classical languages

Detect language in mixed sources: A Practical Guide

When to Validate files with JHOVE

Build a multispectral imaging rig: A Practical Guide

Use the IIIF Presentation API: A Practical Guide

Write a data dictionary: A Practical Guide

Balance anonymisation and utility: A Practical Guide

How to Choose photogrammetry vs LiDAR

Decode brevigraphs and tironian notes: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Map historical railway networks

Choose crowdsourcing vs HTR: A Practical Guide

OCR Historical Newspapers and Periodicals

Make metadata linked-data friendly: A Practical Guide

Choose video preservation formats: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Use format registries effectively

Analyse colour in art collections: A Practical Guide

Build and compare frequency lists: A Practical Guide

How to Choose tools for a DH project

Encode uncertain dates in TEI: A Practical Guide

How to Build a Shiny app for history

When to Map history with the sf package

When to Design a gazetteer data model

Beginner's Guide to Dynamic JavaScript sites

How to Licence your own heritage data

How to Add references in Wikidata

Run a Transkribus Project With a Team

How to Cite software and data

Troubleshooting: Handle missing historical data

OCR Tables and Registers Accurately

How to Use gazetteers to boost place NER

Troubleshooting: Digitise fragile manuscripts safely

Troubleshooting: Package data with BagIt

Troubleshooting: Choose a data repository

Beginner's Guide to Crowdsourced contributions

How to Troubleshoot failed photogrammetry

How to Run a multilingual Omeka site

Troubleshooting: Fine-tune BERT on historical text

Troubleshooting: Structure a METS package

How to Understand ontology vs vocabulary

Beginner's Guide to Historical routes with least-cost paths

How to Visualise cultural trends

How to Credit and acknowledge volunteers

How to Apply CARE principles for Indigenous data

Machine translate historical text: A Practical Guide

How to Deploy a Cantaloupe IIIF server

Troubleshooting: Identify gothic book hands

How to Choose OpenRefine vs pandas

When to Adopt Records in Contexts (RiC)

When to Detect sensitive info in born-digital

How to Navigate ethics of digital reconstruction

Choose R vs Python for humanities: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Publish with TEI Publisher

When to Build a network from tabular data

Troubleshooting: Write SPARQL queries for heritage

Troubleshooting: Use GeoNames for historical research

How to Build a historical story map

Digitise features from old maps: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Identify formats with DROID

Troubleshooting: Write volunteer transcription guidelines

How to Identify pigments with imaging

When to Do NER on old languages

When to Use the NDSA Levels of Preservation

Beginner's Guide to False-colour visualisations

How to Write a metadata application profile

Best Practices to Combine text and image analytics

Bulk import items into Omeka S: A Practical Guide

Use Keyword Spotting in Transkribus

How to Plan edition sustainability

Best Practices to Visualise historical uncertainty

Best Practices to Validate linked data with SHACL

Identify born-digital file formats: A Practical Guide

When to Split multi-valued cells

When to Track word frequencies over time

Troubleshooting: Navigate consent for historical data

Beginner's Guide to Agile to DH projects

How to Choose audio preservation formats

How to Reconcile consensus transcriptions

Troubleshooting: Apply Creative Commons to heritage

Digitise bound volumes: A Practical Guide

How to Structure tidy data for the humanities

When to Replay WARCs with pywb

When to Parse messy historical dates in Python

Layout Analysis for Manuscript OCR

How to Build editions with ediarum

When to Upload data to Wikidata via OpenRefine

Troubleshooting: Customise TEI with ODD

When to Organise project folder structure

How to Choose counts vs rates

Choose the Right HTR Model for a Script

How to Build SKOS vocabularies

Reconcile a museum catalogue to Wikidata: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Link TEI text to facsimile images

Troubleshooting: Mine text with tidytext

Best Practices to Import messy historical files in R

How to Do family reconstitution

Best Practices to Build a historical lexicon

Beginner's Guide to Time-enabled historical maps

When to Set up lighting for imaging

When to Curate messy research spreadsheets

Troubleshooting: Provide access to born-digital records

Tag Layout and Structure in Transkribus

Troubleshooting: Find collocations and keywords

Beginner's Guide to Meshroom for free photogrammetry

Beginner's Guide to IIIF vs static image tiles

Troubleshooting: Write a README for a research project

Document 3D model provenance: A Practical Guide

How to Publish historical web maps with Leaflet

How to Estimate preservation storage costs

Troubleshooting: Describe web archive collections

How to Read humanist italic hands

Best Practices to Interpret historical punctuation

How to Parse historical syntax

When to Visualise networks on the web

How to Work with two-mode networks

How to Record coordinate uncertainty for places

How to Use the IIIF Image API

How to Extract text from PDFs in Python

When to Plan DH project sustainability

How to Evaluate NLP on historical text

How to Clean messy data in R

Beginner's Guide to ImageJ for spectral analysis

Best Practices to Choose an edition publishing framework

Troubleshooting: Encode finding aids in EAD

Troubleshooting: Use spatial joins for historical data

Troubleshooting: Run a rights clearance workflow

How to Choose Omeka vs CollectiveAccess

When to Scale and align 3D models

When to Annotate images with IIIF

Best Practices to Analyse networks in R

When to Understand HGIS vs modern GIS

Best Practices to Describe photograph collections

Best Practices to Expand common Latin abbreviations

Troubleshooting: Detect handwritten vs typed regions

Best Practices to Choose transformer vs rule-based NLP

Best Practices to Analyse temporal historical networks

Best Practices to Interpret centrality measures

Troubleshooting: Link entities to Wikidata

Best Practices to Choose an RDF vocabulary

Best Practices to Link places to Pleiades

Best Practices to Migrate obsolete file formats

How to Design an ingest workflow

Best Practices to Transcribe with FromThePage

Troubleshooting: Use BitCurator for born-digital

When to Mitigate AI bias in heritage data

How to Preserve CAD and 3D model files

Improve a Weak Transkribus Model

Best Practices to Choose TEI vs DocBook for editions

When to Use Reflectance Transformation Imaging

When to Map collections with Omeka mapping

Build an HTR Pipeline From Scratch

Best Practices to Adapt spaCy to historical text

Troubleshooting: Use reflectance spectroscopy

Best Practices to Apply PREMIS preservation metadata

When to Use JSON-LD for heritage

When to Balance scale and close reading

When to Export and clean crowdsourced data

Best Practices to Handle orphan works

Troubleshooting: Batch import with QuickStatements

Troubleshooting: Use Docker for reproducible DH

Best Practices to Do nominal record linkage

Automate OCR Post-Correction Cleanly

Best Practices to Apply FADGI imaging guidelines

Best Practices to Use fixity and checksums

Best Practices to Document a dataset with a README

Troubleshooting: Analyse large image collections

Troubleshooting: Crawl sites with Browsertrix

Troubleshooting: Analyse historical data with pandas

Troubleshooting: Use GREL transformations

Best Practices to Decolonise collections description

Troubleshooting: Set up the Mirador viewer

Troubleshooting: Geocode historical addresses

When to Apply PCA to spectral images

Troubleshooting: Avoid misleading historical charts

Best Practices to Visualise data with Scholia

Best Practices to Archive social media pages

Best Practices to Run n-gram analysis

Best Practices to Encode verse and drama in TEI

Best Practices to Pin software dependencies

Best Practices to Work with historical price data

Best Practices to Collaborate across disciplines

Best Practices to Use a working paleography glossary

Best Practices to Avoid entity extraction pitfalls

Best Practices to Define minimum viable metadata

Beginner's Guide to A linked open dataset

Best Practices to Resolve toponyms in text with NLP

Best Practices to Enable deep zoom with IIIF

Best Practices to Handle coordinate systems and datums

Best Practices to Preserve relational databases with SIARD

Best Practices to Quality control digitised images

Best Practices to Add search to a digital edition

Best Practices to Reconcile names to VIAF

Best Practices to Anonymise sensitive historical data

How to Recover data from legacy media

Respect data sovereignty: A Practical Guide

Transkribus Credits and Cost Planning

Best Practices to Visualise history with ggplot2

Beginner's Guide to Historical occupations

Measure CER and WER for Your Models

Batch OCR Thousands of Pages Reliably

Account for canon bias: A Practical Guide

Do stylometry in R with stylo: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Plot historical data with matplotlib

Troubleshooting: Photogrammetry of small objects

Run federated SPARQL queries: A Practical Guide

Choose documentary vs critical edition: A Practical Guide

How to Measure novelty and influence

Beginner's Guide to Wikidata vs a local database

How to Quality check web archive captures

Beginner's Guide to A corpus

Beginner's Guide to Notebooks vs scripts

Beginner's Guide to English court hand

Beginner's Guide to IIIF to Omeka S

Beginner's Guide to NLP on noisy OCR text

Beginner's Guide to Communities in historical networks

Beginner's Guide to Controlled vocabularies

Beginner's Guide to Large maps and plans

Beginner's Guide to Emulation vs migration

Beginner's Guide to Historical dates

Beginner's Guide to Datasets citable

Beginner's Guide to And motivate volunteers

Beginner's Guide to Copyright in photographs

Best Practices to Arrange a fonds into series

Beginner's Guide to Spreadsheets long term

Beginner's Guide to Representational bias in datasets

Troubleshooting: Staff a digital humanities project

Fix Baseline Errors in Transkribus

Build interactive historical timelines: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Represent locational uncertainty

Troubleshooting: Build topic models in R

Choose raster vs vector for history: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Process email archives

Best Practices to Query Wikidata with SPARQL

Best Practices to Understand the WARC format

Encode a critical apparatus in TEI: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Document a research workflow

Sample historical records: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Parse TEI and XML with Python

Troubleshooting: Publish 3D models on the web

Best Practices to Choose Metashape vs RealityCapture

Date a medieval charter by its script: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Use linked data in Omeka S

Tesseract vs Kraken for Historical OCR

Fix OCR Errors on Special Characters

POS tag historical languages: A Practical Guide

Model a correspondence network: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Extract and normalise historical dates

How to Assign persistent identifiers

Troubleshooting: Reconcile data to linked open data

Model heritage data as RDF triples: A Practical Guide

Resolve ambiguous historical place names: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Map changing historical boundaries

Use PDF/A for archival documents: A Practical Guide

Set up colour management: A Practical Guide

Beginner's Guide to Bit rot in archives

Apply 3-2-1 backup for archives: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Reconcile data to Wikidata in OpenRefine

Write a data management plan: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Use word vectors for historical meaning

Best Practices to Use stylometry for authorship

Build a project on Zooniverse: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Crowdsource tagging and classification

Determine if a work is public domain: A Practical Guide

Best Practices to Capture born-digital metadata

Troubleshooting: Remediate harmful language in catalogues

Export Transkribus Transcriptions to TEI

Beginner's Guide to Archaic grammar in NLP

How to Make historical charts in Datawrapper

How to Apply levels of description

How to Avoid historical network data pitfalls

When to Map metadata in Omeka S

How to Choose AntConc vs Voyant

Beginner's Guide to Corrections and authorial edits

Troubleshooting: Compare multispectral vs UV imaging

Decide lossless vs lossy compression: A Practical Guide

Beginner's Guide to Reproducible reports in R Markdown

Best Practices to Map elements with XRF

Best Practices to Build IIIF manifests

Best Practices to Distinguish copyright from database rights

Handle sensitive records responsibly: A Practical Guide

Beginner's Guide to A genetic edition

2024

Best Practices to Write a data plan for a DH grant

Choose network layout algorithms: A Practical Guide

Handle Abbreviations in Transkribus

Troubleshooting: Organise items with Omeka item sets

How to Use capture targets and colour charts

Beginner's Guide to Editions citable and stable

When to Make flow maps of migration

How to Encode tables and figures in TEI

Transkribus vs eScriptorium Compared

When to Build concordances and KWIC

Wrangle historical data with the tidyverse: A Practical

Best Practices to Process multispectral image stacks

Create MODS records for digitised items: A Practical Guide

When to Apply CIDOC CRM

Beginner's Guide to Places that change over time

Beginner's Guide to Crowdsourcing accessible

Write a scope and content note: A Practical Guide

Beginner's Guide to And decimate 3D meshes

Beginner's Guide to Omeka S performance

Beginner's Guide to Corpora for cultural analytics

GPU vs CPU for HTR Training and Inference

When to Lemmatise Latin and Greek

Beginner's Guide to Collections with LOD

When to Choose a scanner vs camera rig

When to Assess file format obsolescence risk

When to Version humanities datasets

When to Run regression on historical data

When to Use RightsStatements.org

When to Write a minimal TEI header

Troubleshooting: Use NetworkX for historical data

When to Manage multispectral image data

Beginner's Guide to Sankey diagrams for flows

When to Apply GDPR to historical records

Best Practices to Tokenise historical text

When to Recognise Carolingian minuscule

Best Practices to Build an online exhibit in Omeka

Troubleshooting: Choose Gephi vs Cytoscape

When to Crosswalk metadata between schemas

Get started with QGIS for history: A Practical Guide

When to Normalise files on ingest

When to Version a digital edition

When to Control quality in crowdsourcing

When to Choose Archive-It vs self-hosting

When to Preregister a computational study

When to Handle historical dates with lubridate

When to Weight historical samples

When to Plan project documentation

When to Model rights in metadata

When to Map historical census data

Troubleshooting: Store historical data in SQLite

Troubleshooting: Train NER for historical text

When to Choose CC0 vs Public Domain Mark

Troubleshooting: Manage Wikidata data quality

Capture sites with Conifer: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Use regex on historical corpora

Scrape archive websites with Python: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Tell apart confusable letterforms

Troubleshooting: Extract historical organisations

Disambiguate historical people: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Map historical to modern place names

Troubleshooting: Present manuscripts with IIIF

Troubleshooting: Manage raw masters vs derivatives

Troubleshooting: Plan a digitisation workflow

Troubleshooting: Write a digital preservation policy

Troubleshooting: Use OpenRefine history and undo

Cluster and dedupe with OpenRefine: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Licence research data

Create forensic disk images: A Practical Guide

Model heritage items in Wikidata: A Practical Guide

Manage DH projects on GitHub: A Practical Guide

Budget a digital humanities project: A Practical Guide

Capture photos for photogrammetry: A Practical Guide

Topic model a historical corpus: A Practical Guide

Troubleshooting: Apply More Product Less Process

Best Practices to Scrape heritage data ethically

Improve OCR Accuracy on Old Printed Books

Beginner's Guide to Social media records

Train a Transkribus HTR Model

Choose Omeka Classic vs Omeka S: A Practical Guide

Recover text from palimpsests: A Practical Guide

Serve images with an IIIF server: A Practical Guide

When to Turn transcriptions into an edition

Pick a Public Transkribus Model

How to Link historical records

Best Practices to Archive 3D models long term

Best Practices to Customise an Omeka S theme

OCR Multilingual and Code-Switched Pages

How to Normalise historical spelling

How to Choose between Dublin Core and MODS

Best Practices to Design URIs for heritage data

How to Choose scanning resolution and DPI

How to Apply the OAIS reference model

How to Visualise historical time series

How to Apply FAIR principles to humanities data

Best Practices to Apply sentiment analysis to historical

Best Practices to Gamify a transcription project

How to Understand copyright in digitised works

How to Choose ISAD(G) vs DACS

Pick Wikidata properties for heritage: A Practical Guide

Scope a web archiving crawl: A Practical Guide

Preprocess Scanned Images for Better OCR

Beginner's Guide to A prosopographical database

Beginner's Guide to Born-digital records

Beginner's Guide to Cultural analytics pitfalls

How to Set up R for humanities research

How to Read English secretary hand

How to Get started with Gephi

How to Introduce linked open data for heritage

How to Build a historical gazetteer

How to Georeference historical maps

How to Choose TIFF vs JPEG 2000 for masters

How to Plan a digital scholarly edition

Best Practices to Compare cloud vs local preservation

Best Practices to Use small multiples for comparison

How to Design a crowdsourced transcription project

How to Recognise bias in archival data

Beginner's Guide to Weighted edges in history

Clean noisy corpus text: A Practical Guide

Beginner's Guide to Historical tables in R

Manage DH project stakeholders: A Practical Guide

Beginner's Guide to Living individuals in records

Track data provenance: A Practical Guide

How to Index a web archive for search

How to Manage third-party rights in collections

Beginner's Guide to Accession records

Get started with cliometrics: A Practical Guide

How to Annotate entities efficiently

Beginner's Guide to IIIF CORS errors

Beginner's Guide to Old word processor files

Beginner's Guide to RAW images for archives

Beginner's Guide to Facets to find dirty data

Beginner's Guide to A data paper

Beginner's Guide to Authority records with ISAAR

Beginner's Guide to Historical text

Beginner's Guide to German Kurrent and Sutterlin

Beginner's Guide to Rename archive files in Python

Map MARC to Dublin Core: A Practical Guide

Beginner's Guide to With parish-level place data

Log preservation events: A Practical Guide

How to Get started with Wikidata for heritage

How to Get started with web archiving

Getting Started with Transkribus

How to Get started with TEI P5

How to Use Git for humanities research

How to Set up Python for historical research

How to Scope a digital humanities project

How to Get started with photogrammetry

OCR vs HTR: Which One for Your Scans

How to Extract people from primary sources

How to Understand multispectral imaging for manuscripts

How to Understand what IIIF is

How to Get started with OpenRefine

How to Get started with born-digital archiving

How to Start with distant reading

How to Get started with Omeka S

How to Build a historical text corpus

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