## :black_nib: Handwriting Transcription Guides ##
- [National Archives Tips for reading Historic Documents](https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/transcribe/tips)
- [Now I Know My (19th Century) ABCs](https://decodingthecivilwar.wordpress.com/now-i-know-my-19th-century-abcs/)
- [Paleography: Interpreting Handwriting in Genealogical Research](https://guides.loc.gov/paleography/introduction)
- [Reed College Study Guide: Colonial American Handwriting](https://www.reed.edu/indianconverts/studyguides/colonial_american_handwriting/cultural_significance.html)

## :leaves: Plant Name Guides ##
- [International Plant Names Index (IPNI)](https://ipni.org/)
- [Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/)
- [World Flora Online Plant List](https://wfoplantlist.org/)

## :bird: Bird Name Guides ##
- [American Ornithological Society's (AOS) Checklist](https://checklist.americanornithology.org/)
- [IOC World Bird List](https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/)

## :notebook_with_decorative_cover: Other Useful Guides ##
- [Apothecaries' symbols commonly found in medical recipes ](https://textcreationpartnership.org/docs/dox/medical.html)
- [Apothecaries' system Wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apothecaries%27_system)
- [Fresh-water rhizopods of North America by Joseph Leidy](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/23899#page/11/mode/1up) - helpful for working with Joseph Leidy's notebooks
- [World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)](https://www.marinespecies.org/)

## :books: Interesting Reads ##
- [First Forays into Rev City and Automatic Transcription](https://www.amphilsoc.org/news/first-forays-rev-city-and-automatic-transcription)
- [Has Google Quietly Solved Two of AI’s Oldest Problems?](https://generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google-quietly-solved-two-of?utm_source=bento&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=broadcast&bento_uuid=84ab41bf-f62f-48b3-a526-1f24bb19f780)
- ["Human in the loop" is a thought-terminating cliche](https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/human-in-the-loop-is-a-thought-terminating-cliche?utm_source=bento&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=broadcast&bento_uuid=84ab41bf-f62f-48b3-a526-1f24bb19f780)
- [On the Hidden Mystery of OCR in Large Multimodal Models](https://huggingface.co/papers/2305.07895?utm_source=bento&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=broadcast&bento_uuid=84ab41bf-f62f-48b3-a526-1f24bb19f780#:~:text=mathematical%20expression%20recognition,a%20foundational%20framework%20for%20the)
- [The Power of Community Science: How Smithsonian Volunpeers Transform Scientific Field Notes](https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2024/09/power-of-community-science-how-smithsonian-volunpeers-transform-scientific-field-notes.html)
- [Revisiting the Role of Language Priors in Vision-Language Models ](https://linzhiqiu.github.io/papers/visual_gpt_score/?utm_source=bento&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=broadcast&bento_uuid=84ab41bf-f62f-48b3-a526-1f24bb19f780#:~:text=but%20under,propose%20a%20probablistic%20treatment%20by)
- [Six Lessons from Our First Crowdsourcing Project in the Digital Humanities](https://www.getty.edu/news/six-lessons-learned-from-our-first-crowdsourcing-project-in-the-digital-humanities/)

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