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✒️ Handwriting Transcription Guides
National Archives Tips for reading Historic Documents
Now I Know My (19th Century) ABCs
Paleography: Interpreting Handwriting in Genealogical Research
Reed College Study Guide: Colonial American Handwriting
🍃 Plant Name Guides
International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
Plants of the World Online
World Flora Online Plant List
🐦 Bird Name Guides
American Ornithological Society's (AOS) Checklist
IOC World Bird List
📔 Other Useful Guides
Apothecaries' symbols commonly found in medical recipes
Apothecaries' system Wikipedia article
Fresh-water rhizopods of North America by Joseph Leidy
- helpful for working with Joseph Leidy's notebooks
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
📚 Interesting Reads
First Forays into Rev City and Automatic Transcription
Has Google Quietly Solved Two of AI’s Oldest Problems?
"Human in the loop" is a thought-terminating cliche
On the Hidden Mystery of OCR in Large Multimodal Models
The Power of Community Science: How Smithsonian Volunpeers Transform Scientific Field Notes
Revisiting the Role of Language Priors in Vision-Language Models
Six Lessons from Our First Crowdsourcing Project in the Digital Humanities