Thomas Schmid

Sourcery History: how Sourcery is reimagining remote research - Sourcery A problem researchers often face is wanting to track down a citation or consult a distant archival collection that just may be the linchpin for their argument. But if they aren’t able to travel to the...

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Heute vor 280 Jahren: Letzer Luchs im Rothaargebirge erlegt | siwiarchiv.de www.siwiarchiv.de/heute-vor-28... @thschmid.bsky.social : Danke!

Ausschnitt einer mittelalterlichen Urkunde mit Text, der den Namen Adyatica enthält.

Frauen im Spätmittelalter heißen ja meistens Katharina, Elisabeth oder Margarethe. Ausgefallene Namen sind eher selten. So zumindest der Urkundenbefund. Deshalb heute #NameOfTheDay: Adyatica. Zu finden auf #HHStA AUR 19735 aus dem Jahr 1413.

I do take all of Dr Jackson's points but, as an archivist, handwritten text recognition is still an extremely exciting development.

It will allow us to improve our knowledge of our collections and to make them available in ways that can make them more accessible, more useful to more researchers.

#Archives are far more than “content.” Their diplomatic and contextual frameworks reveal how a document was created, transmitted: insight essential for understanding its intent, authority, and true meaning.
Opting for shortcuts depletes the richness of records and will drain them of their meaning.

So, the week after next, I'll be getting on a plane and flying to visit an archive where I'll <checks notes> waste my valuable time trying to read some handwritten documents, and you know what? That's totally fine by me.

You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵

After “Archive Fever”, a lot of people at the theoretical end of archival science got very excited that Derrida had written about their field.

I’ve been told that Derrida eventually said words to the effect of “I wasn’t talking about *actual* archives, you yokels.”

A tidal river, fringed by glistening mudbanks, twists away between stands of tawny yellow-brown reeds, under a crisp blue autumn sky.

A good day to be over at Snape Maltings for a meeting: arrival nearly delayed by my being diverted off the route between car park and office, going slithering off across the mud in search of the right angle.

#AarbergBisZweisimmen

#Lützelflüh, ehemalige Reibe/Stampfe

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#Lütschental, Kraftwerk

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How Morocco's Western Sahara gamble paid off

der #archivhimmel lässt heute etwas zu wünschen übrig...
#sundayarchivist

Vom Archiv ins Netz: 100 Jahre SAC Bern zum Durchstöbern Die «Clubnachrichten» der SAC-Sektion Bern sind digital verfügbar. «Was, das habt ihr noch nicht alles online?», ist eine Frage, die unter Archivmitarbeitende längst Meme-Status erreicht hat. Denn so ...

Vom Archiv ins Netz: 100 Jahre SAC Bern zum Durchstöbern

#Burgerbibliothek #Bern #privatarchive #alpinismus 📜

#sundayarchivist #archivwege #archivhimmel

As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").

There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try

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#Lüscherz, Gasthof Drei Fische

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The Mystery of the Charlotte County Deteriorated Court Records What’s the story behind the court records housed in a miniature Plexiglas display case?

The Mystery of the Charlotte County Deteriorated Court Records 📜
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#Loveresse, Clown Grock

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#Lotzwil

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White chemise with a manuscript note stitched to it

But mostly THIS. Which fairly conceivably is the actual chemise of St Louis, but *definitely* has a curatorial label from the 15th cent stitched on. (It says whose shirt it is, and that it was already missing just the one sleeve when this person catalogued it.)

Das Bild zeigt das Staatsarchiv Amberg von außen.

#Archivhimmel über dem Staatsarchiv #Amberg.

#StaatsarchivAmberg #Oberpfalz

An open 15th-century manuscript displayed on a wooden table. The right-hand page features a full-length illustration of a stylized male figure holding a long sword, decorated with bright colors and symbolic motifs: a green dragon head near the hilt, gold circles at the knees, and a horned or fleur-de-lis–shaped crest on the helmet. Surrounding the figure is dense handwritten Latin text in brown ink. The left-hand page contains neatly written text with rubricated initials and marginal notes. The pages show signs of age and wear.

This fencing manual - written between 1482–1487 and dedicated to Guidobaldo da Montefeltro - once sat in the Ducal Library of Urbino. Influenced by Fiore dei Liberi, cited in the ducal index, lost after Cesare Borgia’s 1502 conquest, resurfaced centuries later at the National Central Library of Rome

Sichtbare Fortschritte in der #Bestandserhaltung: Der Theaterbestand im #GSAWeimar wird sukzessive einer Trockenreinigung und archivgerechten Verpackung unterzogen. Bald ist es geschafft! Großen Dank für die Förderung durch @bundeskultur.bsky.social   
Im Bild: Vorher- und Nachherzustand.

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I ha Freud, juhee, juhee!
A de Bärge wyss vo Schnee,
A der Fahne mit dem Chrüz,
A der ganze liebe Schwyz.

Burgerbibliothek Bern, ES 1120
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#privatarchive #WWI

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Wie si denn versproche hei,
Dass si ds Ländli hüete wei,
Dass si welle zäme stah
Und dem Find entgäge ga:

So will i's o einisch tue,
Wenn i gross und starke gnue;
Jitze bi-ni-i halt no chly,
Wart Du, bis i Houptme bi!

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Vor allem die vierte Strophe 😊

Schwyzerland, i ha di gärn,
Hüür no lieber weder färn.
Drum will i, so lang i bi,
Geng e brave Schwyzer sy.

Will geng tapfer sy und treu,
Wie di Manne stark und frei,
Wo vor Zyte-n-i der Nacht
Ufem Rütli d' Schwyz hei gmacht.

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post der #Burgerbibliothek #Bern:

#Archivtrouvaillen: Wart Du!

Bei Kriegsausbruch 1914 dichtete die 12-jährige Alexie von Tavel ein "Liedli" für ihren 7-jährigen Bruder Hans.
Das zeitgenössische Geschichtsbild teilen wir zwar nicht, aber rührend finden wir die aufmunternden Verse allemal!

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