Old Habits, New Tools
We have had computers for half a century and still make digital editions as if they were printed books. My new lesson for Programming Historian en français, the first of two parts, …
persNamer 1.2: One VIAF Number, Nine Authority Files
persNamer takes a VIAF number and hands back a TEI person entry. Version 1.2 makes that entry worth having: variant names, normalised dates, the identifiers of nine national and …
tei-mcp v0.3: Encoding TEI Without Rewriting the Source
tei-mcp v0.3 introduces span-locked composition, which makes the most damaging hallucination in AI-assisted TEI encoding impossible: silent rewrites of the source. The model never …
A Different Kind of Digital Edition
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 …
tei-mcp: TEI P5 for AI Agents
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, …
Teaching Binary with the ITA2 Telegraph Emulator
An interactive demonstration of the ITA2 (Baudot-Murray) telegraph code that helps students grasp fundamental concepts of binary encoding and state machines