Digital Humanities

The new release of tei-mcp introduces span-locked composition, a system designed to prevent the most damaging class of hallucination in AI-assisted TEI encoding: silent rewrites of the source text. The model never types body text; it registers tags as offsets over the source, and the composer refuses to return any TEI whose flat text content differs from the original by a single byte.

Most primary sources never get published. The grant-funded digital edition model is too expensive, too centralised, and too fragile to work at scale. Here’s why I’m building the critical edition of Cavriana’s letters differently.

tei-mcp is an open-source MCP server that gives AI coding assistants direct access to the TEI P5 specification — element lookup, attribute resolution, nesting validation, document validation, and ODD customisation.

An interactive demonstration of the ITA2 (Baudot-Murray) telegraph code that helps students grasp fundamental concepts of binary encoding and state machines