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Beginner's Guide to Time-enabled historical maps

A gentle beginner's guide to build time-enabled historical maps, explaining the core ideas in plain language with a small worked example you can follow from a standing start.

When to Set up lighting for imaging

When to set up lighting for imaging and when not to: the trade-offs, costs and signals that tell you whether this approach fits your sources and project before

When to Curate messy research spreadsheets

When to curate messy research spreadsheets and when not to: the trade-offs, costs and signals that tell you whether this approach fits your sources and project.

Troubleshooting: Provide access to born-digital records

Troubleshooting common problems when you provide access to born-digital records: diagnose the usual errors, find the root cause fast and apply fixes that work

Tag Layout and Structure in Transkribus

How to use structural and text tags in Transkribus to capture headings, marginalia and tables so structure survives into your data. Read the full walkthrough.

Troubleshooting: Find collocations and keywords

Troubleshooting common problems when you find collocations and keywords: diagnose the usual errors, find the root cause fast and apply fixes that actually hold

Beginner's Guide to Meshroom for free photogrammetry

A gentle beginner's guide to use Meshroom for free photogrammetry, explaining the core ideas in plain language with a small worked example you can follow from start to finish.

Beginner's Guide to IIIF vs static image tiles

A gentle beginner's guide to choose IIIF vs static image tiles, explaining the core ideas in plain language with a small worked example you can follow from a

Troubleshooting: Write a README for a research project

Troubleshooting common problems when you write a README for a research project: diagnose the usual errors, find the root cause fast and apply fixes that

Document 3D model provenance: A Practical Guide

A practical guide to document 3D model provenance for working historians and archivists, covering the workflow end to end with concrete examples you can reuse.