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When to distinguish scribal hands in one manuscript and when not to: the trade-offs, costs and signals that tell you whether this approach fits your sources
When to analyse ego networks of historical figures and when not to: the trade-offs, costs and signals that tell you whether this approach fits your sources and
A gentle beginner's guide to audit metadata quality, explaining the core ideas in plain language with a small worked example you can follow from a standing start
When to export and template OpenRefine output and when not to: the trade-offs, costs and signals that tell you whether this approach fits your sources and
A step-by-step guide on how to curate Jupyter notebooks for reuse, with practical defaults, settings and the pitfalls to avoid so you reach a usable result on first run.
When to handle nested historical entities and when not to: the trade-offs, costs and signals that tell you whether this approach fits your sources and project
A gentle beginner's guide to automate pipelines with Make, explaining the core ideas in plain language with a small worked example you can follow from a
When to choose series vs item-level description and when not to: the trade-offs, costs and signals that tell you whether this approach fits your sources and budget.
A gentle beginner's guide to navigate legal issues in web archiving, explaining the core ideas in plain language with a small worked example you can follow.
A guide to automating Transkribus with its REST API, scripting upload, recognition and export for large repeatable digitisation jobs. Read the full walkthrough.