https://www.archives.org.uk/ai-preparedness-guidelines-for-archivists
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HMML: The Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library is Now Digital
Over 32,000 medieval manuscripts transcribed in four months using AI
How to Prevent a Work from Entering the Public Domain
Medieval Maps of Britain
University journals in the global academic publishing landscape
First 100 Path to Open Books now available open acess on JSTOR
The Dream of the Universal Library
ILAB Provenance Guide
https://ilab.org/article/introducing-the-ilab-provenance-guide
#buchgeschichte
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
Journal of the History of Ideas Blog
20 New Open Access Books on Medieval History
A bibliography of genAI-fueled research fraud from 2025
Happy Christmas
OpenAlex: Features, advantages and limitations of an open database
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16434
“The results reveal numerous records lacking abstracts, affiliations and references; deficiencies in identifying document types and languages; and issues with authority control and versioning. Although OpenAlex has been adopted in important initiatives and has yielded results comparable to those obtained with commercial databases, gaps in its metadata and a lack of consistency point to a need for intensive data cleaning, suggesting it should be used with caution. The study concludes by identifying three lines of action to improve data quality: increasing publishers’ commitment to completing metadata in primary sources; creating coordination structures to channel the contributions of institutional users; and endowing the project with sufficient human resources and reliable procedures to address internal quality control tasks and user support requests.”
There’s no excuse for journals to require formatting
Editors at Springer’s Journal of Philosophical Logic Resign, Launch New Diamond Open Access Journal
Rutland mosaic depicts ‘long-lost’ Troy story
Digital Edition of Medieval Genealogical Roll
Cultural Memory in the Icelandic Contemporary Sagas
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111348476
Clavis canonum – Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234: Handbook and Database
How Iron Age and Roman heritage in Britain is conceived and understood today
Fake dissertation
“In 1958 Maria Hermina Nederburgh (1872-1963) donated four copies of the thesis Eenige beschouwingen over transportatie en relegatie vooral in verband met kolonisatie (‘Some thoughts on penal transportation, in particularly in relation to colonosation’) to the Academisch Historisch Museum (AHM-1958-169 to AHM-1958-171). The dissertation was defended almost seventy years earlier by her brother, Herman Gerard Nederburgh (1864-1935) in Leiden in 1890. ‘Four copies’ is a bit misleading, because whereas one of the copies is indeed the thesis, in the other three the title page of the dissertation is followed by a novel. In 1958, Miss Nederburgh provided the following explanation: ‘Since the content of the actual dissertation held no appeal for the ladies, it was replaced by a novel or history, which was presented in the same cover and with a gilded edge.’ She herself, her sister Sophia Clementia Nederburgh-Nuhout van der Veen (1862-1925) and Hermans’ fiancée Anna Apollonia Salverda (1866-1958) each received such a “fake” dissertation.”
https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/judging-a-book-by-its-cover
On Incunables 1.5: Falk Eisermann
Dublin: Deeds of the Guild of St Anne, 1237 – 1778 online
Carmen Urbita and Ana Garriga turned their scholarly knowledge about Baroque nuns into a popular podcast and now, a cheeky book
#witchesinthearchives – Virtual exhibition
Mapping Past Societies
See also
Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads
https://itiner-e.org/

