I set up a cheap and dirty homepage for #measuringtheearth using Linktree and short.io to help anybody interested in navigating my repository on the history of #geodesy to find their way: http://measuring.earth/home

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after listening to a talk by @joguldi on AI and historical objectivity and receiving a hint in this direction on the chat, I started playing around -- multiple ethical qualms notwithstanding -- with NotebookLM. I have now set up a publicly accessible notebook with my #MeasuringtheEarth dataset on the history of #geodesy (a complete collection of digitized conference minutes and reports of the Internationale Erdmessung, 1862-1912, also available on GitHub: http://measuring.earth/IAG).

As long as you have a Google account, you can explore the dataset and ask questions about the history of geodesy using AI: http://measuring.earth/notebook. As soon as I have time and resources, I will look for freely accessible alternatives. BTW, I'm open for suggestions on how to set up a publicly accessible #AI interface that draws on #GitHub (and in perspective #Codeberg) to go through such a collection in a way comparable to NotebookLM

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FWIW yesterday I OK'ed that the public facing part of the #geodesy project can be sunsetted. Nobody was using it, AFAIK. If anybody wants to have a last fast look at the 19th c. minutes of the International Geodetic Ass with a cool search interface, they probably should best do it now: measuring-the-earth.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/. The pdfs of scans will remain available on the MPWIG digital library: https://measuring.earth/minutes. I'll get a dump of the txt files and may set them up elsewhere as a coherent corpus if somebody feels like playing on it with DH tools. Follow #measuringtheearth for updates. #histsci #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory