MarineLives
@marinelives.bsky.social
Lives touched by the marine, 1574-1688. A volunteer led collaboration publishing to the Commons. See also: https://generativelives.substack.com/
Launching the ottoman-archive GitHub organisation for all historians and linguists interested in learning about a world culture where only 10,000 people can now read its written records github.com/ottoman-arch... @ottomanhistory.bsky.social
ottoman-archive
ottoman-archive has one repository available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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February 4, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Launching the ottoman-archive GitHub organisation for all historians and linguists interested in learning about a world culture where only 10,000 people can now read its written records github.com/ottoman-arch... @ottomanhistory.bsky.social
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Our new short courses are a great way to learn about using different kinds of sources for researching and writing history. Whether you're researching one place, or something broader, this is the ideal introduction to using the built environment in history! #Skystorians
Want to learn more about how we look at townscapes as a tool to understand urban & human histories of place?
Join us on 4-6 March with expert guidance on a range of themes, exploring sources, what statutory protection means and how it works and access to the resources of @ihrlibrary.bsky.social. 🗃️
Join us on 4-6 March with expert guidance on a range of themes, exploring sources, what statutory protection means and how it works and access to the resources of @ihrlibrary.bsky.social. 🗃️
Townscape and Architecture in History
Discovery Course 2
www.history.ac.uk
January 26, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Our new short courses are a great way to learn about using different kinds of sources for researching and writing history. Whether you're researching one place, or something broader, this is the ideal introduction to using the built environment in history! #Skystorians
This is how I work on Ottoman Turkish with Claude (and Gemini) to visually capture, transliterate, translate, extract named entitities, and contextualise C19th and early C20th Ottoman Turkish documents. generativelives.substack.com/p/opening-th... #Ottomanhistory @ottomanhistory.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 11:55 AM
This is how I work on Ottoman Turkish with Claude (and Gemini) to visually capture, transliterate, translate, extract named entitities, and contextualise C19th and early C20th Ottoman Turkish documents. generativelives.substack.com/p/opening-th... #Ottomanhistory @ottomanhistory.bsky.social
May be of interest #Ottomanhistory @guel-sen.bsky.social @sariyannis.bsky.social @elifbengusuarik.bsky.social
NEW: Can LLMs open Ottoman archives to generalist historians? I show how AI transcription makes Ottoman Turkish, Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek & Armenian accessible—with auditable, scholarly results. Work in progress; feedback welcome!
generativelives.substack.com/p/opening-the-ottoman-archive
generativelives.substack.com/p/opening-the-ottoman-archive
Opening the Ottoman Archive
You want to do granular research on the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, but don't read Ottoman Turkish. Do you throw up you hands or look for a new set of powerful tools?
generativelives.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:24 AM
May be of interest #Ottomanhistory @guel-sen.bsky.social @sariyannis.bsky.social @elifbengusuarik.bsky.social
I'm looking for scholars of Ottoman Turkish, Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek and Armenian to comment on and to test my approach, as well as generalist historians wanting to explore new content and archives @timhitchcock.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com #history #ottoman #turkey
NEW: Can LLMs open Ottoman archives to generalist historians? I show how AI transcription makes Ottoman Turkish, Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek & Armenian accessible—with auditable, scholarly results. Work in progress; feedback welcome!
generativelives.substack.com/p/opening-the-ottoman-archive
generativelives.substack.com/p/opening-the-ottoman-archive
Opening the Ottoman Archive
You want to do granular research on the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, but don't read Ottoman Turkish. Do you throw up you hands or look for a new set of powerful tools?
generativelives.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:49 AM
I'm looking for scholars of Ottoman Turkish, Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek and Armenian to comment on and to test my approach, as well as generalist historians wanting to explore new content and archives @timhitchcock.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com #history #ottoman #turkey
NEW: Can LLMs open Ottoman archives to generalist historians? I show how AI transcription makes Ottoman Turkish, Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek & Armenian accessible—with auditable, scholarly results. Work in progress; feedback welcome!
generativelives.substack.com/p/opening-the-ottoman-archive
generativelives.substack.com/p/opening-the-ottoman-archive
Opening the Ottoman Archive
You want to do granular research on the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, but don't read Ottoman Turkish. Do you throw up you hands or look for a new set of powerful tools?
generativelives.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:45 AM
NEW: Can LLMs open Ottoman archives to generalist historians? I show how AI transcription makes Ottoman Turkish, Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek & Armenian accessible—with auditable, scholarly results. Work in progress; feedback welcome!
generativelives.substack.com/p/opening-the-ottoman-archive
generativelives.substack.com/p/opening-the-ottoman-archive
Are you interested in languages, historical research and large language models? Then check out my new Substack Generative Lives generativelives.substack.com #history #languages #machinelearning #ai #llms
December 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Are you interested in languages, historical research and large language models? Then check out my new Substack Generative Lives generativelives.substack.com #history #languages #machinelearning #ai #llms
May be of interest to @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social cljournal.org @aclmeeting.bsky.social @melibrarynl.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
May be of interest to @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social cljournal.org @aclmeeting.bsky.social @melibrarynl.bsky.social
I would like to make contact with Ottoman Turkish scholars to discuss a new approach to machine transcription, transliteration and translation of Ottoman Turkish, using early issues of Takvîm-i Vekâyi as the use case @turkishstudies.bsky.social @gtot.bsky.social @gtot.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I would like to make contact with Ottoman Turkish scholars to discuss a new approach to machine transcription, transliteration and translation of Ottoman Turkish, using early issues of Takvîm-i Vekâyi as the use case @turkishstudies.bsky.social @gtot.bsky.social @gtot.bsky.social
Can Gemini 3 Pro Preview read this printed 1920s Ottoman Turkish (Right to Left) accurately? Yes. #transkribus
December 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Can Gemini 3 Pro Preview read this printed 1920s Ottoman Turkish (Right to Left) accurately? Yes. #transkribus
Here's a cryptographical challenge for people who have finished their shopping and are bored: generativelives.substack.com/p/message-in...
#puzzle #cryptography #history #language
@timhitchcock.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com @thiagokrause.bsky.social
#puzzle #cryptography #history #language
@timhitchcock.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com @thiagokrause.bsky.social
Message in a Script
A cryptographical challenge for those who have finished shopping with time on their hands.
open.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Here's a cryptographical challenge for people who have finished their shopping and are bored: generativelives.substack.com/p/message-in...
#puzzle #cryptography #history #language
@timhitchcock.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com @thiagokrause.bsky.social
#puzzle #cryptography #history #language
@timhitchcock.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com @thiagokrause.bsky.social
What is the potential for LLM-enabled HTR with medium to low resource languages to help historians open up archives? My latest Substack article explores the edge case of mid-C20th handwritten Yiddish #history #languages #htr #ai #machine-learning generativelives.substack.com/p/mid-c20th-...
Mid-C20th Yiddish HTR
The potential for LLM-based transcription is clear, as amateurs and professionals experiment with Gemini 3 Pro's unique visually grounded capabilities. So how does Gemini perform in an edge case?
generativelives.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
What is the potential for LLM-enabled HTR with medium to low resource languages to help historians open up archives? My latest Substack article explores the edge case of mid-C20th handwritten Yiddish #history #languages #htr #ai #machine-learning generativelives.substack.com/p/mid-c20th-...
I am looking for a palaeographer and/or philologist who can read and comment on this image, and context, and who would be interested in commenting forensically upon some work I am doing. Source: EAP759/1 Sundarban Anchalik Sangrahashala Collection [18th-19th century] eap.bl.uk/project/EAP759
December 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I am looking for a palaeographer and/or philologist who can read and comment on this image, and context, and who would be interested in commenting forensically upon some work I am doing. Source: EAP759/1 Sundarban Anchalik Sangrahashala Collection [18th-19th century] eap.bl.uk/project/EAP759
I interviewed film maker Derek Jarman in early 1980. I was twenty-three and he was thirty-eight. I have published part of this previously unpublished interview in my Generative Lives substack article "What's top of my mind". open.substack.com/pub/generati...
December 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I interviewed film maker Derek Jarman in early 1980. I was twenty-three and he was thirty-eight. I have published part of this previously unpublished interview in my Generative Lives substack article "What's top of my mind". open.substack.com/pub/generati...
I have a new Substack article about the potential of Gemi 3 Pro to assist with machine transcription of medium and low resource languages #history #translation #palaeography #digitalhumanities @timhitchcock.bsky.social @dancohen.org @tedunderwood.com open.substack.com/pub/generati...
A New Lens into the Archive
You are in an archive. You find a document in a language you don't understand. You take a photo, input it into Gemini 3 Pro. 60 seconds later you have a transcription, transliteration, and translation
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I have a new Substack article about the potential of Gemi 3 Pro to assist with machine transcription of medium and low resource languages #history #translation #palaeography #digitalhumanities @timhitchcock.bsky.social @dancohen.org @tedunderwood.com open.substack.com/pub/generati...
Encouraging curious historians who like to experiment with tools and to build their own to subscribe to my Generative Lives Substack. New article later this week on Gemini 3 Pro and its remarkable capabilities with low resource languages. generativelives.substack.com/about @timhitchcock.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Encouraging curious historians who like to experiment with tools and to build their own to subscribe to my Generative Lives Substack. New article later this week on Gemini 3 Pro and its remarkable capabilities with low resource languages. generativelives.substack.com/about @timhitchcock.bsky.social
(1) Announcing the AI + History Collaboratory monthly online programme, December 2025 to June 2026. We still have spaces.https://github.com/Addaci/ai-and-history-collaboratory/blob/main/README.md #history #ai #researchmethods
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
(1) Announcing the AI + History Collaboratory monthly online programme, December 2025 to June 2026. We still have spaces.https://github.com/Addaci/ai-and-history-collaboratory/blob/main/README.md #history #ai #researchmethods
I have been engaging with Professor Mark Humphries, who writes the excellent Generative History substack. Mark has analysed the capabilities of Gemini 3 for HTR. In this Bluesky post I add to his findings. @timhitchcock.bsky.social #history #ai #llms generativehistory.substack.com/p/gemini-3-s...
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I have been engaging with Professor Mark Humphries, who writes the excellent Generative History substack. Mark has analysed the capabilities of Gemini 3 for HTR. In this Bluesky post I add to his findings. @timhitchcock.bsky.social #history #ai #llms generativehistory.substack.com/p/gemini-3-s...
Gemini 3 Pro in Consumer Bot mode can identify and markup text regions, identify lives, and label lines by region. Moreover it can pretty accurately transcribe English language C17th legal depositions, despite a complex layout. Follow link for the prompts I used gemini.google.com/share/c42566...
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Gemini 3 Pro in Consumer Bot mode can identify and markup text regions, identify lives, and label lines by region. Moreover it can pretty accurately transcribe English language C17th legal depositions, despite a complex layout. Follow link for the prompts I used gemini.google.com/share/c42566...
I am relaunching the ai-and-history collaboratory I ran last December. First meeting Tuesday, December 9th 2025. Then roughly monthly by ZOOM. Let me know if you are interested. github.com/Addaci/ai-an... #ai #history @timhitchcock.bsky.social
GitHub - Addaci/ai-and-history-collaboratory: online forum with synchronous and asynchronous components for the discussion of the application of ai to historical research
online forum with synchronous and asynchronous components for the discussion of the application of ai to historical research - Addaci/ai-and-history-collaboratory
github.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I am relaunching the ai-and-history collaboratory I ran last December. First meeting Tuesday, December 9th 2025. Then roughly monthly by ZOOM. Let me know if you are interested. github.com/Addaci/ai-an... #ai #history @timhitchcock.bsky.social
I am looking for a couple of beta testers who will take half an hour and try out a Socratic Research Assistant I have been building powered by Gemini 3.0 Pro Preview. The idea is to get much greater control over the persona, and inference approach of Gemini through the interface
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I am looking for a couple of beta testers who will take half an hour and try out a Socratic Research Assistant I have been building powered by Gemini 3.0 Pro Preview. The idea is to get much greater control over the persona, and inference approach of Gemini through the interface
Here's my agenda for the next three months: generative-ai, historical research and archival practice: generativelives.substack.com/p/whats-top-... #earlymodernhistory #history #archives #ai #ml
What's top of my mind?
My Generative Lives agenda for the next three months
generativelives.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Here's my agenda for the next three months: generative-ai, historical research and archival practice: generativelives.substack.com/p/whats-top-... #earlymodernhistory #history #archives #ai #ml
I am starting a Substack called Generative Lives. This offers a user's perspective on generative-ai and its potential application to historical research and archival practice. The Substack is free and seeks to encourage hands-on experimentation. open.substack.com/pub/generati...
Introducing myself: Colin Greenstreet, research public historian
A user's perspective on generative ai for historical research and archival practice
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I am starting a Substack called Generative Lives. This offers a user's perspective on generative-ai and its potential application to historical research and archival practice. The Substack is free and seeks to encourage hands-on experimentation. open.substack.com/pub/generati...
Hello BlueSky. I haven't been active for a while. I am looking for examples of museums, libraries and archives doing interesting things with generative ai and would welcome suggestions of websites to look at. #earlymodern #archives #libraryscience
October 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Hello BlueSky. I haven't been active for a while. I am looking for examples of museums, libraries and archives doing interesting things with generative ai and would welcome suggestions of websites to look at. #earlymodern #archives #libraryscience
Did ships get bigger in the C17th? Yes. Contact me if you would like access to the data and would like to discuss. And of course the devil is in the detail, but this is a relatively and well defined large dataset #earlymodern #marinehistory @thiagokrause.bsky.social @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Did ships get bigger in the C17th? Yes. Contact me if you would like access to the data and would like to discuss. And of course the devil is in the detail, but this is a relatively and well defined large dataset #earlymodern #marinehistory @thiagokrause.bsky.social @brodiewaddell.bsky.social