https://SourceLibrary.org has about 16,000 rare books translated — most for the first time. 50,000 books archived (will be translated when we have $$ for it). More tokens than English Wikipedia and about .75 petabytes.

Not sure if we will qualify for a bounty, but happy to share! Btw, we are looking for funding from small or large donors who want to help us translate the Renaissance…

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wrsh07 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Hey, this looks fascinating!

I can't quickly tell what all you have archived^, but I have some friends who are academic historians who might be interested in certain categories of work (and could help verify some esoteric languages) - is it possible to search by region or language?

Have you reached out to any types of historians WRT the project? It seems like some PhD students might be able to find some projects in this work etc

^ when I looked at the timeline https://sourcelibrary.org/timeline, I got an error

	▲	dr_dshiv 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, this is designed with historians and librarians from the Embassy of the Free Mind (https://embassyofthefreemind.com) in Amsterdam, stewards of the collection of the Biblioteca Philosophica Hermetica Please share with historian friends. I’m not great at socials or fundraising but this was really designed to support humanists. It can give DOIs for the versions of the translated books, which means they can be quoted and cited in academic papers. Tip: Try it in Claude or Claude code (even better)! Just point it towards the source library. It can find quotes and evidence on any topic of interest. Or try the librarian — our source-grounded research agent https://sourcelibrary.org/librarian Thanks for the feedback, I’ll fix the timeline.

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sgc 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Curious as to what your budget was to get where you are today? That's a lot of tokens. I presume you are using gemini flash?

	▲	dr_dshiv 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		All the models used are shown with each page of translation and each book has a whole data provenance treatment. You can add it up!