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I use the Portal de Archivos Españoles [1] for Spanish colonial documents. Each country has their own archive but the Spanish one has the most content (35 mill
by throwup238 11mo ago
I use the Portal de Archivos Españoles [1] for Spanish colonial documents. Each country has their own archive but the Spanish one has the most content (35 million digitized pages)
The hard part is knowing where to look since most of the images haven’t gone through HRT/OCR or indexing so you have to understand Spanish colonial administration and go through the collections to find stuff.
[1] https://pares.cultura.gob.es/pares/en/inicio.html https://pares.cultura.gob.es/pares/en/inicio.html
- throwout4110 11mo agoWant to collab on a database and some clustering and analysis? I’m a data scientist at FAIR with an interest in antiquarian docs and books
- rmonvfer 11mo agoSpaniard here. Let me know if I can somehow help navigate all of that. I’m very interested in history and everything related to the 1400-1500 period (although I’m not an expert by any definition) and I’d love to see what modern technology could do here, specially OCRs and VLMs.
- throwout4110 11mo agoAwesome thank you!
- throwup238 11mo agoSadly I'm just an amateur armchair historian (at best) so I doubt I'd be of much help. I'm mostly only doing the translation for my own edification
- cco 11mo agoYou may be surprised (or not?) at how many important scientific and historical works are done by armchair practitioners.
- throwout4110 11mo agoNo problem at all, if you have some databases or catalogs I’d be interested in learning more
- vintermann 11mo agoYou should maybe reach out to the author of this blog post, professor Mark Humphries. Or to the genealogy communities, we struggle with handwritten historical texts no public AI model can make a dent in, regularly.
- dr_dshiv 11mo agoHit me up, if you can. I’m focused on neolatin texts from the renaissance. Less than 30% of known book editions have been scanned and less than 5% translated. And that’s before even getting to the manuscripts. https://Ancientwisdomtrust.org https://Ancientwisdomtrust.org Also working on kids handwriting recognition for https://smartpaperapp.com https://smartpaperapp.com
- throwout4110 11mo agoSounds actually perfect. I’ll send you an email. Thank you!
- ATMLOTTOBEER 11mo agoThis is a different person from who you originally asked lol
- throwout4110 11mo agoRight yes I do know :)
- dr_dshiv 11mo agoPlease do!