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Lives touched by the marine, 1574-1688. A volunteer led collaboration publishing to the Commons. See also: generativelives.substack.com

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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I have been working with a team of five historians to develop a governed research environment for historical research. We are calling our research environment The Historian’s Desktop and propose to launch it into the Commons in early September 2026. generativelives.substack.com/p/the-histor...
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The Historian's Desktop
A governed research environment for historical research. Designed by historians for historians
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
@adamchapman.bsky.social @justincolson.bsky.social @mpdavies.bsky.social @melissaterras.bsky.social @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I have been history vibe coding now for four months. I am offering to coach and support any of you who want to take the plunge with a first history vibe coding project. generativelives.substack.com/p/history-vi... @timhitchcock.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com
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History vibe coding
An offer to coach any and all historians wanting to give it a try
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
May be of interest @dslc.io @historytoday.com @royalhistsoc.org @historians.org
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
May be of interest @tedunderwood.com @timhitchcock.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @jwbaker.bsky.social @adamcrymble.bsky.social
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Claude Cowork has huge potential for historians. The next session of the ai + history collaboratory (March 31st 2026) will be a hands on session exploring how to install Cowork on your desktop and to write and test skill files to assist your research generativelives.substack.com/p/cowork-for...
Cowork for Historians: skills and workflows
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I’m sharing the product of five hours work with Claude Cowork spread over a day. I have been using Cowork now for ten days and this is my biggest project to date. The product is a static 5 annotation layer IIIF viewer for Ottoman Turkish. #ottomanturkish generativelives.substack.com/p/an-ottoman...
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An Ottoman Turkish document viewer built with Claude Cowork
I’m sharing the product of five hours work with Claude Cowork spread over a day.
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Those were the days!! First public fruit of my work with Claude Cowork. An interactive dashboard of the MarineLives Twitter archive. 13 years of data. 10,535 Tweets. You can check it out on the ai + history collaboratory GitHub site: ai-and-history-collaboratory.github.io/social-media... #history
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Launching the ottoman-archive GitHub organisation for all historians and linguists interested in learning about a world culture where only 10,000 people can now read its written records github.com/ottoman-arch... @ottomanhistory.bsky.social
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ottoman-archive
ottoman-archive has one repository available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Our new short courses are a great way to learn about using different kinds of sources for researching and writing history. Whether you're researching one place, or something broader, this is the ideal introduction to using the built environment in history! #Skystorians
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
This is how I work on Ottoman Turkish with Claude (and Gemini) to visually capture, transliterate, translate, extract named entitities, and contextualise C19th and early C20th Ottoman Turkish documents. generativelives.substack.com/p/opening-th... #Ottomanhistory @ottomanhistory.bsky.social
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
May be of interest #Ottomanhistory @guel-sen.bsky.social @sariyannis.bsky.social @elifbengusuarik.bsky.social
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I'm looking for scholars of Ottoman Turkish, Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek and Armenian to comment on and to test my approach, as well as generalist historians wanting to explore new content and archives @timhitchcock.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com #history #ottoman #turkey
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
NEW: Can LLMs open Ottoman archives to generalist historians? I show how AI transcription makes Ottoman Turkish, Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek & Armenian accessible—with auditable, scholarly results. Work in progress; feedback welcome! generativelives.substack.com/p/opening-the-ottoman-archive
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Opening the Ottoman Archive
You want to do granular research on the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, but don't read Ottoman Turkish. Do you throw up you hands or look for a new set of powerful tools?
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Are you interested in languages, historical research and large language models? Then check out my new Substack Generative Lives generativelives.substack.com #history #languages #machinelearning #ai #llms
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
May be of interest to @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social cljournal.org @aclmeeting.bsky.social @melibrarynl.bsky.social
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Computational Linguistics
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I would like to make contact with Ottoman Turkish scholars to discuss a new approach to machine transcription, transliteration and translation of Ottoman Turkish, using early issues of Takvîm-i Vekâyi as the use case @turkishstudies.bsky.social @gtot.bsky.social @gtot.bsky.social
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Can Gemini 3 Pro Preview read this printed 1920s Ottoman Turkish (Right to Left) accurately? Yes. #transkribus
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Here's a cryptographical challenge for people who have finished their shopping and are bored: generativelives.substack.com/p/message-in... #puzzle #cryptography #history #language @timhitchcock.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com @thiagokrause.bsky.social
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Message in a Script
A cryptographical challenge for those who have finished shopping with time on their hands.
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
What is the potential for LLM-enabled HTR with medium to low resource languages to help historians open up archives? My latest Substack article explores the edge case of mid-C20th handwritten Yiddish #history #languages #htr #ai #machine-learning generativelives.substack.com/p/mid-c20th-...
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Mid-C20th Yiddish HTR
The potential for LLM-based transcription is clear, as amateurs and professionals experiment with Gemini 3 Pro's unique visually grounded capabilities. So how does Gemini perform in an edge case?
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I am looking for a palaeographer and/or philologist who can read and comment on this image, and context, and who would be interested in commenting forensically upon some work I am doing. Source: EAP759/1 Sundarban Anchalik Sangrahashala Collection [18th-19th century] eap.bl.uk/project/EAP759
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I interviewed film maker Derek Jarman in early 1980. I was twenty-three and he was thirty-eight. I have published part of this previously unpublished interview in my Generative Lives substack article "What's top of my mind". open.substack.com/pub/generati...
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I have a new Substack article about the potential of Gemi 3 Pro to assist with machine transcription of medium and low resource languages #history #translation #palaeography #digitalhumanities @timhitchcock.bsky.social @dancohen.org @tedunderwood.com open.substack.com/pub/generati...
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A New Lens into the Archive
You are in an archive. You find a document in a language you don't understand. You take a photo, input it into Gemini 3 Pro. 60 seconds later you have a transcription, transliteration, and translation
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Encouraging curious historians who like to experiment with tools and to build their own to subscribe to my Generative Lives Substack. New article later this week on Gemini 3 Pro and its remarkable capabilities with low resource languages. generativelives.substack.com/about @timhitchcock.bsky.social
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
(1) Announcing the AI + History Collaboratory monthly online programme, December 2025 to June 2026. We still have spaces.https://github.com/Addaci/ai-and-history-collaboratory/blob/main/README.md #history #ai #researchmethods
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I have been engaging with Professor Mark Humphries, who writes the excellent Generative History substack. Mark has analysed the capabilities of Gemini 3 for HTR. In this Bluesky post I add to his findings. @timhitchcock.bsky.social #history #ai #llms generativehistory.substack.com/p/gemini-3-s...
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Gemini 3 Solves Handwriting Recognition and it’s a Bitter Lesson
Testing shows that Gemini 3 has effectively solved handwriting on English texts, one of the oldest problems in AI, achieving expert human levels of performance.
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Gemini 3 Pro in Consumer Bot mode can identify and markup text regions, identify lives, and label lines by region. Moreover it can pretty accurately transcribe English language C17th legal depositions, despite a complex layout. Follow link for the prompts I used gemini.google.com/share/c42566...
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I am relaunching the ai-and-history collaboratory I ran last December. First meeting Tuesday, December 9th 2025. Then roughly monthly by ZOOM. Let me know if you are interested. github.com/Addaci/ai-an... #ai #history @timhitchcock.bsky.social
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GitHub - Addaci/ai-and-history-collaboratory: online forum with synchronous and asynchronous components for the discussion of the application of ai to historical research
online forum with synchronous and asynchronous components for the discussion of the application of ai to historical research - Addaci/ai-and-history-collaboratory
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I am looking for a couple of beta testers who will take half an hour and try out a Socratic Research Assistant I have been building powered by Gemini 3.0 Pro Preview. The idea is to get much greater control over the persona, and inference approach of Gemini through the interface
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Here's my agenda for the next three months: generative-ai, historical research and archival practice: generativelives.substack.com/p/whats-top-... #earlymodernhistory #history #archives #ai #ml
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What's top of my mind?
My Generative Lives agenda for the next three months
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I am starting a Substack called Generative Lives. This offers a user's perspective on generative-ai and its potential application to historical research and archival practice. The Substack is free and seeks to encourage hands-on experimentation. open.substack.com/pub/generati...
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Introducing myself: Colin Greenstreet, research public historian
A user's perspective on generative ai for historical research and archival practice
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Hello BlueSky. I haven't been active for a while. I am looking for examples of museums, libraries and archives doing interesting things with generative ai and would welcome suggestions of websites to look at. #earlymodern #archives #libraryscience
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Did ships get bigger in the C17th? Yes. Contact me if you would like access to the data and would like to discuss. And of course the devil is in the detail, but this is a relatively and well defined large dataset #earlymodern #marinehistory @thiagokrause.bsky.social @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
A potential use of AI image analysis which could be done at scale as part of an analysis of historic literacy? I loaded images of 140 signature, initial(s), mark(s) into NotebookLM & interrogated them palaeographically (with zero training). @thiagokrause.bsky.social @timhitchcock.bsky.social
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Looking for a Turkish speaker who would be willing to sample a couple of minutes of a Turkish podcast generated by Google NoteBook LM Plus [podcasts in 50 languages, handles 300 sources, very useful mindmaps]. Can send .wav file or give NB access @thiagokrause.bsky.social @timhitchcock.bsky.social
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Looking for two or three Early Modern marine historians, marine archaeologists, and knowledgeable enthusiasts interested in exploring novel, as yet unpublished 5,000+ ship database [SOLM-QUANT] for C17th commercial (and naval) ships - Get in touch to learn more #marinehistory #earlymodern
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I have been busy these last four months. Now looking for a publisher. Any suggestions. Can supply draft chapters and appendices for anyone interested in taking a look. @timhitchcock.bsky.social @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Enrollment is now open for the 4th edition of the Master's in Computational Social Sciences at UC3M! No prior knowledge of programming or stats is needed—perfect for social sciences grads. Questions? Contact us or ask to be connected with our student ambassadors! Please, share!
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We have a nice new shiny organization card for MarineLives on Hugging Face, where you can find models and datasets huggingface.co/MarineLives
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I am working with @beismo.bsky.social to fine-tune two small large language models to correct raw machine transcription of Yiddish in Hebrew script. We plan to show the results this coming Tuesday at our next ai-and-history-collaboratory @timhitchcock.bsky.social @mark-l-thompson.bsky.social
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Do you wonder what "fine-tuning" a large language model means? How could it help in historical research? Next Tuesday during our weekly one hour ai-and-history-collaboratory we are going to run some code and train a small large language model called mT5 github.com/Addaci/marin...
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Great to see our ai-and-history-collaboratory is having some impact. And thanks to @mark-l-thompson.bsky.social for his participation. The topic for next Tuesday is fine-tuning large language models for use in historical research github.com/Addaci/marin...
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Depository for MarineLives Collaboratory. Contribute to Addaci/marinelives-collaboratory development by creating an account on GitHub.
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Interested in learning to use large language models for historical research? We have a Colab notebook which guides non-coders through using APIs to interrogate data github.com/Addaci/Aurel...
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We have a Google colab notebook as background to session two of our ai and history collaboratory. If you are interested please try some of the exericises - no code required github.com/Addaci/marin...
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We are holding the second session of our ai-and-history collaboratory on Tuesday, December 3rd 2024 at 4 pm London time. We will be learning how to use APIs to control large language models for historical research. github.com/Addaci/marin...
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Curious about our ai-and-history-collaboration? We hold one hour ZOOM dropin sessions each Thursday at 4 pm London time. Direct mail us if you are interested in finding out more. github.com/Addaci/marin...
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Depository for MarineLives Collaboratory. Contribute to Addaci/marinelives-collaboratory development by creating an account on GitHub.
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
1/ The first session of the eight session ai-and-history-collaboratory took place yesterday. Great turnout and stimulating discussion of how to prompt large language models in the context of historical research. github.com/Addaci/marin...
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Our ai-and-history-collaboratory kicks off this Tuesday for the first of eight sessions. This Tuesday we are discussing Prompt Engineering. github.com/Addaci/marin... #skystorians #machinelearning
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Great article on training librarians in digital humanities
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MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
An exceptionally helpful post by @burtenshaw.bsky.social I have changed session 4 of our ai-and-history collaboratory to tackle data broadly, including creation and use of synthetic data github.com/Addaci/marin...
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Depository for MarineLives Collaboratory. Contribute to Addaci/marinelives-collaboratory development by creating an account on GitHub.
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