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One day I really should dig up my great great great great grandfather’s[^1] diaries to see first hand how he justified bringing back so much stuff to the UK. [^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Richard_Hamilton
You know that they exist, you know where they are, and you’ve never read or digitized them? Or was that sarcasm?
One day I really should dig up my great great great great grandfather’s[^1] diaries to see first hand how he justified bringing back so much stuff to the UK. [^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Richard_Hamilton
“To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”
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Fair catch, it only pulls from institutions with open access APIs (Met, V&A, SMB Berlin, AIC). Not aware of an equivalent from Japanese museums, if you know one, happy to add it.
In that case, the map looks misleading, doesn’t it? It looks as though London and Berlin, for example, stand out as having dislocated disproportionately many artifacts from around the world. And on the other hand, Paris looks innocent. But in truth, London and Berlin are just being honest about it giving you open access to the data whereas Paris doesn’t. So perhaps it would be better to mark cities that do provide da…
A small subset of the data. If all London museums were included (such as the British Museum, for example) there would be a LOT more lines going to London.
How well does the fuzzy matcher resolve provenance text to origin sites? Curious what share of the 200k in the README needed hand correction.
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You know that they exist, you know where they are, and you’ve never read or digitized them? Or was that sarcasm?
They’re at my aunts house, I’ve just not had a chance to read them or ask my cousin to digitise them and send them to me.
Is there any way to filter the lines? There are so many lines it's hard to see what's going on. But definitely interesting.
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They’re at my aunts house, I’ve just not had a chance to read them or ask my cousin to digitise them and send them to me.
Looks like you've got some real history there. Think about it. You might even be able to hack together an Ask My Ancestor chatbot. Heck, I’d build it for you. The scamming and the OCR are going to be the hardest parts I imagine.