#open database

[cuties-in-codices]

Where do you find these manuscripts? Is it like a website or do you find it randomly??

hey, thanks for the curiosity! lenghty answer below the cut :)

1)

medieval manuscripts are typically owned by libraries and showcased on the library's websites. so one thing i do is i randomly browse those digitized manuscript collections (like the collections of the bavarian state library or the bodleian libraries, to name just two), which everybody can do for free without any special access. some digital collections provide more useful tools than others (like search functions, filters, annotations on each manuscript). if they don't, the process of wading through numerous non-illustrated manuscripts before i find an illustrated one at all can be quite tedious.

2)

there are databases which help to navigate the vast sea of manuscripts. the one i couldn't live without personally use the most is called KdIH (Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters). it's a project which aims to list all illustrated medieval manuscripts written in german dialects. the KdIH provides descriptions of the contents of each manuscript (with a focus on the illustrations), and if there's a digital reproduction of a manuscript available anywhere, the KdIH usually links to it. the KdIH is an invaluable tool for me because of its focus on illustrated manuscripts, because of the informations it provides for each manuscript, and because of its useful search function (once you've gotten over the initial confusion of how to navigate the website). the downside is that it includes only german manuscripts, which is one of the main reasons for the over-representation of german manuscripts on my blog (sorry about that).

3)

another important database for german manuscripts in general (i.e. not just illustrated ones) is the handschriftencensus, which catalogues information regarding the entirety of german language manuscripts of the middle ages, and also links to the digital reproductions of each manuscript.

4)

then there are simply considerable snowball effects. if you do even just superficial research on any medieval topic at all (say, if you open the wikipedia article on alchemy), you will inevitably stumble upon mentions of specific illustrated manuscripts. the next step is to simply search for a digital copy of the manuscript in question (this part can sometimes be easier said than done, especially when you're coming from wikipedia). one thing to keep in mind is that a manuscript illustration seldom comes alone - so every hint to any illustration at all is a greatly valuable one (if you do what i do lol). there's always gonna be something interesting in any given illustrated manuscript. (sidenote: one very effective 'cheat code' would be to simply go through all manuscripts that other online hobbyist archivers of manuscript illustrations have gone through before - like @discardingimages on tumblr - but some kind of 'professional pride' detains me from doing so. that's just a kind of stubbornness though. like, i want to find my material more or less on my own, not just the images but also the manuscripts, and i apply arbitrary rules to my search as to what exactly that means.)

5)

whatever tool or strategy i use to find specific illustrated manuscripts-- in the end, one unavoidable step is to actually manually skim through the (digitized) manuscript. i usually have at least a quick look at every single illustrated page, and i download or screenshot everything that is interesting to me. this process can take up to an hour per manuscript.

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in conclusion, i'd say that finding cool illuminated manuscripts is much simpler than i would have thought before i started this blog. there are so many of them out there and they're basically just 'hidden in plain side', it's really astounding. finding the manuscripts doesn't require special skills, just some basic experience with/knowledge of the tools available. the reason i'm able to post interesting images almost daily is just that i spend a lot of time doing all of this, going through manuscripts, curating this blog, etc. i find a lot of comfort in it, i learn a lot along the way, and i immensely enjoy people's engagement with my posts. so that's that :)

#if you ever have any specific questions about any of these tools or my strategies feel free to ask or dm me #i'd also be interested in recommendations of databases that are specific to other languages/regions that are neither german nor english #preferably with a focus on illuminated manuscripts #or useful databases that are just not very well known #ask #medieval art #medieval studies #btw @anon sorry for only getting around to answering your ask now #and re: your following message. first of all never apologize for your english skills. like ever #it's a daily struggle for me as well tbh. i never post anything without german/english dictionary tabs open lol #and i feel like i 'owe' it to the tumblr blogger format to write in smooth english #secondly your question wasn't dumb at all! i'm glad somebody asked :)

[ufolvr]

Real big fan of robots and monsters and aliens btw in case u couldn't tell.

And a trope I Hate is forced humanization, in general. If a non human character is supposed to become connected to humankind, then fine. It's not atrocious on it's own. I don't care.

What I do care about is when they're belittled for not being "human enough" in a "weird way". Like, yeah, maybe the alien that doesn't celebrate birthdays is strange to the protagonist. They don't have to call them out on it. The alien doesn't have to be seen at the end celebrating their birthday to solidify how human they've become.

If you want it to happen have it happen gradually. Have them become curious about it, and find out they actually like the customs they're not used to yet. Aliens finding pleasure in a playground, monsters enjoying food they'd never gotten to taste before, and robots discovering they genuinely like watching TV. Whatever!

Just work around their differences, make it be gradual, and not born from the main, human cast making fun of them or pointing out how weird they are for not liking X thing. And for the love of god, don't make "Becoming Human uwu" the center of their story. It's so... Heartbreaking. Bleak, even.

#thinking about brainiac DCAU and how he would Not be open to trying out new things #bc ''his database already has all the information he needs on the topic. why would he need even more? its not important.'' #but my oc cupid isnt like Wow haha that's fucking weird cant you just Try #no its like. 'oh thats fine! ummm... oh! well i guess you dont know how You feel about it yet?' 'i certainly do not' #'how about finding it out!' 'intriguing. fine then' #its about working WITH their preferences and worldview not treating them as FLAWS. ill kill you #📡 incoming transmission 📡 #robots #monsters #aliens #💜brainiac

[incompleteninny]

The sixty-seventh free, unedited chapter of my upcoming book, “The Heist at Cordia Aquarium” is now available on its website (or click here to read from the beginning).

It's dark. Cramped and humid and hot. Thea tightens her arms around her knees; each breath comes rough. Haggard. Harsh against her throat, dry and raw as it is.

It's my fault. I could have said something; I could have stayed out of this and let them find someone better. Then Ivan could become a wrestler; Waylon could help whoever it was that needs him. But no, I'm selfish. I took everything from them.

Her thoughts bounce around inside her head, repeating — never-ending. Those that she escapes just add to the weight of the air around her. Floating at the edge of her perception, like specters waiting for another turn to haunt her.

She presses her head into her knees and she wretches. A dry, tearless sound — just as it's been for a while now. How long am I going to sit here, useless?

[...]

#heroku deleted my websites database so I'm a day late #did they send me an email that they were going to delete the free tier of databases? maybe #did I read it? most certainly not #and am I going to claim responsibility? I'll leave the answer to that open ended #anyway book tags #queer author #queer novel #queer lit #asexual protagonist #tw: anxiety #tw: negative thoughts #cat that thinks they're the protagonist

[jesse-is-inarguably-purple]

i did a massive nerd thing to celebrate the nona release. anyways. have a graph of gideons in harrow. insert obligatory sex joke here

#this was such a joy to make actually #harrow the ninth #harrow the ninth spoilers #htn #htn spoilers #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #original #the locked tomb #tlt #TIME TO CRACK OPEN NONA NOW #is this what they mean on the online autism quizzes when they ask if you have a fascination with numbers and data or some shit #bc yes but its shit like this ONLY #i will do this with joy but i cried during my geology lab yesterday trying to figure out how to use the stupid fucking map database

[caswarrenart]

I know a lot of artists are antsy about art theft right now (myself included, I literally just had a terrible nightmare about fighting the physical manifestation of AI, The Mitchells vs The Machines style…). I can’t claim that any of these things can prevent it. But here’s a few things I’ve found useful:

Opening a free account on Pixsy.com. This website does a decent job at letting me know when my images have been reposted. 99% of the time, the results are just Tumblr-copying zombie websites that just repost everything that is already here. But, it’s sensitive enough that it alerted me when my old college posted my work. They were harmlessly using my stuff as an example of alumni work- but I was glad to be in the know, AND they had mistakenly credited my deadname, so I was able to reach out and correct that. I would have never have seen it otherwise. The website has subscription options, but you can ignore them and still use the monitoring services it provides.

Reverse image searching my most widely shared pieces on haveibeentrained.com. This website checks to see if your work has been fed to AI.

Looking up legal takedown letters and referencing them to draft a generic letter for my own use. This takes a bit of the stress off what is already a stressful and often time-consuming ordeal. Taking time to craft a Very Scary, Legally Threatening, Yet Coldly Professional Memo has been worth it.

Remaining careful about what and how I post online. My living depends on sharing my work, so I have to post it. I’ve learned through trial and error how to post lower resolution images that still look good, but aren’t easily used for anything beyond the intended post, and of course, strategic watermarking. Never, ever post full res, print quality stuff for the general public. Half the time it ends up looking unflattering on social media anyways, cause the files get crunched for being large. I try to downsize my images, while set to bicubic smoothening, to head that off. Look up the optimal image resolutions and proportions for individual sites before posting your web versions. For some work, cropping the piece, or posting chunks of detail shots instead of a full view, is a more protective measure.

Look out for other artists! Reach out when in doubt. Don’t steal from others. Learn the difference between theft, and a study/master copy/fanart/inspiration. Don’t assume that all posted art has the same intended purpose as a “how to” instructional like 5 Minute Crafts. Ask permission. Artists are often helpful and supportive towards people who want to study their work! And, the best tip-offs I’ve received have all been from other people who were watching my back. Thank you to everybody who keeps an eye out for my work, and who have been thoughtful enough to reach out to me when they see theft happening 💖 y’all are the real MVPs. All we have is each other.

#cas posts #art theft #ai art #art #intellectual property #artificial art #artificial intelligence #artificialart #lensa app #lensa #stable diffusion #laion #laion database #large scale artificial intelligence open network #stolen art

[nancydrewdatabase]

MHM Opening Letter

Dear Bess,

Hello, from Stormy San Francisco! This time I'm staying in a beautiful Victorian mansion. You'd love the room I'm in. It's full of old Chinese furnishings and some interesting knick-knacks.

The owner of the house, Rose Green, is a friend of Hannah and asked me to come out and help her with some renovation work. She and her friend, Abby, hope to turn the place into a bed and breakfast by next month. But, from what I've gathered, Rose isn't sure if she can open in time. Ever since they've started the renovations, they've had lots of accidents. Could it be just bad luck, or is there something more sinister at work? I'm sure I'll find out.

Love, Nancy

#nancy drew #nancy drew games #message in a haunted mansion #letters #opening #nancy drew database #clue crew #mhm

[aphsillyos]

silly lil designs for pf ez and aphelios blending into piltover :]

#me arts tag #i was going to draw smth a bit more substantial but i need a nap :'D #the monocle and glasses are just their visors disguised somehow #and the weird half vest? design for ezreal.. i imagine half of it tears off/opens (like buttons or smth) #to accommodate his arm cannon transforming. actually i imagine both their outfits kinda work like that #tearaway clothes for their pulsefire equipment somehow #although im imagining the pulsefire tech might be able to make some illusion/disguise clothes.. transforming tech? who knows #realistically im sure aphelios would cover up the glowing marks on his face but it also looked odd w/o his face markings so i just left em #ezreal monocle doesnt look as silly as i thought... maybe he should wear one normally #im meh on aphelios's coat design but maybe ill rerereredesign into oblivion... LOL #wanted to give him more of like a pilot jacket originally but idk what his vibe is. goofy lil guy. what fashion even suits you #OH.... I GUESS. HE NEEDS HIS SCARF.... ill fix it at some point probably maybe sure #i think it'd be a bit funny if ezreal is unintentionally a fashion/style person #just bc of how much blending in with timelines and worlds and stuff hes done #he just ended up absorbing so much fashion knowledge #aphelios or ekko points it out at some point and hes like. huh. im not into fashion #(said while reading a hefty book on fashion history for whatever location theyre at) #yeah im sure PEARL probably has built in search engine stuff #but ezreal just strikes me as the type of guy to research and memorize/learn stuff #''just in case i lose access to PEARL's database again'' or whatever #im sure thats probably happened like 100 times #so random but i feel like aphelios has the vibe of a guy you wanna dress up in various outfits #but also hes like :) (just happy to be included/present) so he doesnt mind #you put a goofy souvenir shop floppy hat on him and hes like. :) #my aphelios hcs are nonsense im so sorry. i want him to be happy #pulsefire ezreal #pulsefire aphelios #pulsefire #aphelios #ezreal

[narelleart]

Anyone here a killi person involved in killi clubs?

I need access to an article that's locked behind a membership to Killi-Data. I'm hoping to find someone that already has access so I don't have to join.

Here's the one I need:

Huber, J. H. 2019 (31 Aug.) A nomenclatural and systematic analysis of livebearing Cyprinodontiformes (Acanthopterygii: Anablepsinae, Goodeinae, Poeciliidae). Killi-Data Series 2019: 4-155.

[Link]

(All I actually need is the bit on the Poeciliidae.)

I am pretty sure it won't have any new information that I need for my science, but I need to confirm because it's listed on Catalog of Fishes as a relevant citation for taxonomy in one of my study species.

#fishblr #fish #killifish #killis #i know ive been mia here and one day i will update but today im just looking for assistance #the author is the person that runs the website so he wont share without a membership #but to be a member he wants tons of personal information and commitment #i really dont want to have all that added to their member database so people contact me #the fish im working on arent very flashy so they probably wont but i dont plan to stick with cyprinodontiformes #so i dont really want to open myself up to being contacted about them more than i would otherwise be just by publishing

[simeonscott]

Opening SHFs and Celebrating the Creators that got me into Toku! - Vacstream 8/29/2023

Gonna be streaming on Tuesday night, come join if ya can!

#Live #Stream #Live Stream #My Live Stream #YouTube #Toys #SH Figuarts #Opening #Linkara #History of Power Rangers #HOPR #Vangelus #Rider Club Radio #RCR #Dan's Toku Rants #Database Ranger's Power Reviews #DRPR #The Vacuuminator #Modular Media #Youtube

[skelayton-lord]

@angelofthemornings Making this a proper reply-post because as a reply it might end up being too big.

The field is very vast, but the most common would be the person that runs the tests a physician asks you to and signs the paper to validate the results - we can be found doing your bloodwork, urine, biochem analysis (which all falls under clinical analysis/clinical pathology), and many other fields like radiology (x-rays, tomography, etc), acupuncture, embryology... here in Brazil we can have up to 29 licenses, each one corresponding to a different field. Some of these you can come out of university ready to work due to experience in your internship, but some others will require a specialization course or a master's - like acupuncture and radiology.

My license is in clinical pathology, but I've also spent a year in a specialization/expertise program (after getting my bachelor's degree) in laboratorial surveillance for diseases of public health interest, with a focus on diagnostic tools of immunology (serology tests) and molecular biology (mostly real time Polymerase Chair Reaction - PCR).

So I'm both licensed to work in any hospital or particular lab to run tests (with the objective of a diagnosis), and to work with the government in public health surveillance (where the objective here isn't a diagnosis, it is to confirm cases of a disease in a certain population and keep an eye out on how it behaves throughout the year, epidemiology).

I was about to decide between a Master's or a "direct" Doctorate (a Doctorate that "skips" a Master's and lasts longer than the usual Doctorate program) but then the pandemic came and many internship deals crashed, unless you were in virology, as that became the main and only focus of research at the time. I tried for a spot in the State's Strategic Lab, but it was interview-only and for only 1 candidate - I was placed 4th.

With that, my grandma's health also began to deteriorate, so I've been staying home since then to help care for her.

But 4 years later, I've started to job hunt again, and I'm now afraid I might be overqualified (and thus, "more expensive") to employers, as so far I havent gotten any return from my applications. I quite miss and wish to return to academia, sometimes, and with the State's lab, but I have a love-hate relationship with academia and it takes them forever to open up sign-ins for employees. Working in public health was my best time though, really, so if the opportunity arises, I'll be trying my chance there again - I did leave in good terms, and a lot o the chief researchers there wanted to work with me.

#Lay replies #angelofthemornings #I found and fixed an error in their database while doing my analysis to graduate the expertise program #said error might have screwed up another chief researcher's work so it was quite the big deal #GOD I want a position there to open up SO BAD because Im 99% sure they'd take me in like PLEASE WE WORKED TOGETHER SO WELL #IM BEGGIN THE STARS

[saphangeles]

archive page updated!

Additional information on the tatami cam (from ironovervine)

Additional screenshots and timeline notes (from fribbitz)

Example of a 'thinking' AI brain for those wanted it

Reference note for the Ghost in the Shell gif used in Bro's email response on how the chatbots are made

3/29 summarization on Rose anon and Fluff getting taken down for maintenance

#plushrump arg #me after kinda catching up: yippee!! time to relax (opens ms word to start editing) #with my addiction to making little databases i need to treat me to a new keyboard fr i want one with pretty keycaps

[ghostlandtoo]

thirty pieces of silver wolfwood character study. trigun maximum. 14,000 words. ao3 religious guilt, imagery, and canon-typical violence.

Wolfwood takes the rope, ties it around his neck, and looks for a tall tree to hang himself from.

or: Wolfwood and his five betrayals.

#trigun stampede #trigun maximum #vashwood #wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #fuck this guy for having a long name #anyways i loooooooove judas figures #etxt #my writing #the sheer amount of tabs open i had for online bible databases was staggering

[dragonfly756]

likely this means nothing to anyone except maybe two people but the noise ART's medsystem makes (in the new graphic audio adaption of artificial condition) when secunit sits up after their diy bestie surgery times is the exact same sound effect used when you clear a line in petroglyph punch in the classic Nancy drew point and click game curse of blackmoor manor.

#Also the same noise the card readers make in the haunted carousel! #it's an interest of mine now to see what sound effects get reused in different media. my half finished videogame project involved a lot of #soundscaping. Which meant lots of trawling through open-source sound effect databases #really makes you think about where the sounds come from! Who got what from where and what the overlap is #especially with smaller projects #also how the sound is used. Graphic audio is very high quality sound design from a recording/technical standpoint #but is almost tell don't show #Y'know “I walked there” *loud walking noises* #It a the interpretive dance of sound design. Well done technically. But a little intrusive after all the indie podcasts (wolf 359) that are #so smooth with the sound design implementation #anyway rambling #the murderbot diaries #nancy drew

[thingsthatmakeyouacey]

less private property more “putting my face into a database that a corporation owns is bad in a rapidly escalating police state”

#read privacy statements please #not to say it doesnt suck that theyre putting your art into the database too #just remember ai is not really real. it is just regression with inputs designed by people. #who owns the training set? #did you know a lot of ai/ml systems are based on the same open source training set #that was found to be filled with violent misogynist and racist imagery

[oatbugs]

please delete your philosophy gpt-3 post. it's most likely stolen writing.

philosophy?? idk which one you're referring to sorry. also no . if it's the poetry one, see in tags. actually see in tags anyway. actually pls look at my posts on AI too . sorry if it's badly worded i'm very tired :')

#GPT3 is a large language model (LLM) and so is trained on massive amounts of data #so what it produces is always going to be stolen in some way bc...it cant be trained on nothing #it is trained on peoples writing. just like you are trained on peoples writing. #what most ppl are worried about w GPT3 is openAI using common crawl which is a web crawler/open database with a ridiculous amt of data #in it. all these sources will obviously include some published books in which case...the writing isnt stolen. its a book out in the open #meant to be read. it will also include Stolen Writing as in fanfics or private writing etc that someone might not want shared in this way #HOWEVER . please remember GPT3 was trained on around 45TB of data. may not seem like much but its ONLY TEXT DATA. thats billions and #billions of words. im not sure what you mean by stolen writing (the model has to be trained on...something) but any general prompt you give #it will pretty much be a synthesis of billions and billions and billions of words. it wont be derived specifically from one stolen #text unless that's what you ask for. THAT BEING SAID. prompt engineering is a thing. you can feed the model #specific texts and writings and make sure you ask it to use that. which is what i did. i know where the writing is from. #in the one post i made abt gpt3 (this was when it was still in beta and not publicly accessible) the writing is a synthesis of my writing #richard siken's poetry #and 2 of alan turing's papers #im not sure what you mean by stolen writing and web crawling def needs to have more limitations . i have already made several posts about #this . but i promise you no harm was done by me using GPT3 to generate a poem #lol i think this was badly worded i might clarify later but i promise u there are bigger issues w AI and the world than me #feeding my own work and a few poems to a specifically prompt-engineered AI #asks #anon

[1o1percentmilk]

i wish people who program their web apps entirely in javascript a very die

#im fighting for my life in here #what do you meeeaaaaan i cant open this up in a diff tab #also i dont want to deal with a million interfaces #the natural enemy of sysengs and database engs is webdevs i can tell u that #why not have everything in one place simple #but i think the real enemy is the data entry people who couldnt be bothered to enter the right company name #milk (normal)