12/05/2026
AI Cataloging for Holocaust Archives
Three-layer confidence framework for cataloging Holocaust-era photographs with AI: visual, objects, persons — explicit ✓ ~ ? markers and when to defer.
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02/05/2026
Hebrew OCR — A Practitioner's Guide 2026
End-to-end guide to OCR and HTR for historical Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino: engines that work, how to fine-tune, accuracy targets, and mistakes that kill projects.
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02/05/2026
A Glossary of AI for Historical Research
Plain-language glossary for AI-assisted historical research: OCR, HTR, RAG, embeddings, knowledge graphs, NER, pinkasim, yizkor books, and 25 more terms.
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14/04/2026
Project: Building a Historical Database for One Transformative Year
Some years change everything. We built a structured database that consolidated dozens of source types — press, diplomacy, diaries, minutes — from one decisive year into a searchable, analyzable knowledge base.
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Project: Academic Annotations for Memoirs Heading to Publication
When personal memoirs need to become a proper scholarly edition. How combining archival research with AI turned a hundreds-of-pages manuscript into an academic book with hundreds of footnotes — in months instead of years.
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10/04/2026
From Archive to Reader: A Historical Newspapers Research Project with AI
A real-world case study: how we used OCR and AI research agents to transform thousands of pages of historical newspapers into a searchable database — and uncovered forgotten quotes from key figures in early 20th century history.
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05/04/2026
From Personal Memoirs to History: AI-Powered Testimony Processing
A life-story mapping project: how we used LLMs and research agents to turn dozens of family memoirs into a unified historical narrative, verify facts, and reveal hidden connections between different voices.
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01/04/2026
Historical Information Discovery: When AI Agents Work as Researchers With a Hundred Eyes
A real case study in historical discovery: reconstructing the details of an event that was nearly erased from the record. How AI research agents working in parallel across dozens of sources surface information that human researchers had given up on.
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25/03/2026
AI in Holocaust Research: Recovering Lost Voices from the Archives
How artificial intelligence is helping researchers uncover, cross-reference, and preserve Holocaust testimonies and documents at unprecedented scale.
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18/03/2026
Beyond OCR: How Handwriting Recognition Is Unlocking Historical Manuscripts
Traditional OCR cannot read handwritten documents. Modern HTR technology, powered by deep learning, is finally making centuries of handwritten records searchable.
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15/03/2026
Digital Archiving in the AI Era
How AI is transforming archival work — from scanning images to extracting meaning. Three layers of an AI-native archive, with a concrete example.
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12/03/2026
AI Research Agents: The Future of Academic Historical Research
Autonomous AI research agents can now conduct preliminary historical research across multiple archives simultaneously. Here's how they're changing academic work.
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08/03/2026
From Documents to Discovery: Building Knowledge Graphs from Historical Archives
Isolated documents tell fragments of stories. Knowledge graphs connect them into networks of people, places, and events — revealing patterns invisible to traditional research.
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05/03/2026
RAG Technology: Transforming How We Search Historical Archives
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) lets researchers ask natural language questions across thousands of historical documents and receive accurate, source-cited answers.
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20/02/2026
Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage: Why AI Is Essential
Museums, archives, and libraries face an urgent race against time. AI-powered digital preservation offers new tools to protect cultural heritage for future generations.
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10/02/2026
AI-Powered Genealogy: Tracing Family Heritage with Technology
Discover how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing family history research, from deciphering old letters to connecting scattered records across continents.
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15/01/2026
OCR for Historical Hebrew Documents: Challenges and AI Solutions
Historical Hebrew manuscripts present unique OCR challenges - right-to-left text, diverse scripts, and centuries of wear. Learn how AI is solving these problems.
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