
Avviso | Publishing the News that Made us Modern (1537—1743)
An NEH-funded Medici Archive Project

Amazon is destroying second-hand books to scan them, and the press has reached for Savonarola and the Berlin pyre. The comparison does not hold. The real question is who gets to …
Progress in Human Geography threatens retraction for authors who use AI to write "in a language they would never themselves normally employ", while requiring everyone to publish in …
tei-mcp v0.3 introduces span-locked composition, which makes the most damaging hallucination in AI-assisted TEI encoding impossible: silent rewrites of the source. The model never …
Most primary sources never get published. The grant-funded digital edition model is too expensive, too centralised, and too fragile to work at scale. Here's why I'm building the …
tei-mcp is an open-source MCP server that gives AI coding assistants direct access to the TEI P5 specification — element lookup, attribute resolution, nesting validation, …

An NEH-funded Medici Archive Project

A series of blog posts where I evaluate different approaches to drive the cost of scholarly editions down

A monograph on medicine, politics, and epistemology in times of religious wars.

Experimenting with BnF Ms. Fr. 640

Building a minimal edition of Filippo Cavriana’s secret epistolarium
A high-performance tool for parallel XSLT 2.0/3.0 transformations of large XML TEI corpora, handling transformations that LXML cannot process.
An interactive demonstration of the ITA2 (Baudot-Murray) telegraph code that helps students grasp fundamental concepts of binary encoding and state machines.