I just found 20 years worth of manually tagged images! I thought the tagging had been lost to the gods of software past.

People names, places, event names, all back.

So happy!!!

#homelab #immich #digitalarchives #photos #memories

Densho: Building the Densho Digital Repository: Three Decades of Digital Preservation. “How did Densho’s digital archives begin, and how have they evolved over nearly three decades? Densho Archives Director Caitlin Oiye Coon traces the journey from the creation of Densho’s first ‘Digital Archive’ in 1998 to today’s ‘Densho Digital Repository,’ highlighting the people, technologies, and […]

I've just pushed out a massive update for chronicle so there are new setup files.
Massive update to the Chronicle Document Extractor today!
i just rolled out v1.5.0, bridging the gap between historical archival, accessibility, and modern software integration.

Added native EPUB export! You can now batch-scan massive amounts of physical diaries or letters and have Chronicle stitch them seamlessly into an accessible eBook for VoiceOver or standard e-readers.
Added JSON and CSV formats, allowing developers and commercial databases to hook Chronicle’s extraction engine directly into their own API pipelines.
i also overhauled the OCR prompt engine to specifically target Legal and Legislative documents. Chronicle now meticulously preserves strict legal hierarchy (Parts, Sections, Subclauses) and defined terms, preventing the "flattening" that ruins contracts in standard OCR.

The tool is growing up fast. Code is live on GitHub!
https://github.com/harry6116/Chronicle

#Chronicle #Accessibility #a11y #Python #OpenSource #LegalTech #History #DigitalArchives #ScreenReader #AI

https://archive.org/details/creative-computing-magazine/Creative_Computing_Vol_01_01_1974_Nov_Dec[ocr]/mode/2up

via @ranoya

#CreativeComputing #RetroComputing #DigitalArchives

Internet Archive Blog: Recording Now Available from “Protect Our Future Memory” Webinar. “Held on January 27, the event brought together legal experts, library leaders, and advocates to talk about Our Future Memory and the global coalition working to secure the protections that memory institutions need in our increasingly digital and networked world.”

Evolving Web: Designing a digital archive in partnership with an Indigenous community. “At Evolving Web, we recently collaborated with the University of Denver on the Our Stories, Our Medicine Archive (OSOMA), a community-owned digital archive that centres traditional Indigenous knowledge related to health, wellness, culture, and identity. Built in close collaboration with community partners, […]

Nutzt Ihr bereits Large Language Models zur Erschließung historischer Quellen?

In der nächsten Books to Bytes Session wird Sarah Kiener (Zentralbibliothek Zürich) aufzeigen, wie sich LLMs für die Aufbereitung historischer Quellen in maschinenlesbare Datensätze einsetzen lassen.
Im Workshopteil wird sie eine Einführung in die Grundlagen des Promptings geben.

🗓️ Fr. 23.01.26, 10-11:30 Uhr
📍Online via Zoom https://uni-trier.zoom-x.de/j/69148560192?pwd=ZUVjclY2V1JibXhFYVk1VGgrdE9qdz09

#BooksToBytes #LLMs #DigitalHistory #DigitalArchives

@esciences

Venerdì 21 Novembre sarò a Roma alla Rimessa FAB, in via delle zoccolette 28, alle 19:00 dove presenterò insieme a Valentina Tanni la nuova edizione di Post-Digital Print in italiano.
Sabato 22 Novembre, invece sarò a Napoli, alla Libreria Tamu, in via Santa Chiara 10h, alle 18:00, dove la presentazione sarà fatta insieme a Corrado Melluso e Greg Olla.
Spero di vedervi lì!

On Friday 21 November, I will be in Rome at Rimessa FAB, in via delle zoccolette 28, at 7:00 pm where I will present the new edition of Post-Digital Print in Italian, together with Valentina Tanni.
On Saturday 22 November, I will be in Naples, at the Libreria Tamu, in via Santa Chiara 10h, at 6:00 pm, where the presentation will be made together with Corrado Melluso and Greg Olla.
I hope to see you there!

#tacticalpublishing #digitalpublishing #publishing #publishinghistory #indiepublishing #independentpublishing #mediaart #newmediaart #netart #internetart #artsciencetechnology #creativecodeart #creativetechnology #digitalarchives #mediahistory #mediaarchaeology #retrofuture #artistbook #experimentalpublishing #electronicliterature #zines #digitalwriting #mediatheory #mediastudies #digitalhumanities #posttruth #mediamanipulation #hacktivism #postdigital #postdigitalprint