Clément Godbarge
Clément Godbarge

Lecturer in Digital Humanities

Clément Godbarge is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of St Andrews. His research revolves around science and statecraft in early modern Europe. In his forthcoming book, he examines how doctors embedded at the courts of sixteenth-century France and Italy promoted themselves as political experts of a new genre. His research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the Renaissance Society of America, and Harvard University.
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The Fence, Not the Fire

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 …

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Dear Editors: If You Want My Voice, Give Me Back My Language

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 …

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tei-mcp v0.3: Encoding TEI Without Rewriting the Source

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 …

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A Different Kind of Digital Edition

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 …

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tei-mcp: TEI P5 for AI Agents

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, …

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Projects

Efficient Editing

Efficient Editing

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

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tei-mcp

An MCP server that helps AI agents read and write valid TEI XML, with 16 tools covering element lookup, attribute resolution, content model expansion, nesting validation, document …

Multi-Saxon

A high-performance tool for parallel XSLT 2.0/3.0 transformations of large XML TEI corpora, handling transformations that LXML cannot process.

persNamer

A Python tool that converts VIAF identifiers into TEI XML person entries and annotation tags, streamlining authority control in digital scholarly editions.

ITA2 Telegraph Emulator

An interactive demonstration of the ITA2 (Baudot-Murray) telegraph code that helps students grasp fundamental concepts of binary encoding and state machines.