HistoriaMP Blog
AI, palaeography and digital manuscript analysis.
The blog collects articles on historical manuscripts, OCR/HTR, AI image analysis, model input, MUFI, Unicode, glyphs, minim clusters and source-bound reading. It is designed as a growing knowledge archive for Digital Humanities.
July 20, 2026 · Method · Interoperability · Digital Humanities
TEI, IIIF, PAGE-XML and PROV-O each cover a slice. Why the real challenge at HistoriaMP begins only after analysis - in keeping scholarly status intact across system boundaries.
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July 15, 2026 · Method · Scholarly editing · Documentation · AI
What happens when AI-assisted manuscript analysis documents every intermediate step? Why full transparency creates a new paradox - and how HistoriaMP keeps traceability usable anyway.
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June 26, 2026 · Method · Participation · AI · HTR
Why HistoriaMP democratizes not truth itself, but the auditable path toward a reading: visual evidence, candidate status, uncertainty marking, review, AI and HTR as controlled tools.
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June 10, 2026 · Palaeography · Abbreviations · MUFI · AI
How HistoriaMP uses Cappelli, Abbreviationes and MUFI as separate reference layers to create verifiable candidates from image findings and sign forms instead of smooth instant readings.
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May 09, 2026 · HTR · LLM · Black box · Method
Why automatic text recognition and large language models are useful for historical manuscripts - but methodologically insufficient without visible evidence, uncertainty status and model-input documentation.
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May 02, 2026 · Unicode & MUFI · Palaeography · AI
Why historical manuscripts need more than automatic text recognition - and why abbreviation signs, MUFI, Unicode, glyphs and minim clusters require documented uncertainty.
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April 30, 2026 · AI image analysis · Method
Why image scaling in AI analyses must be documented - and why an AI statement initially applies only to the concrete image version that was actually presented to the model.
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