Hi everyone! A couple weeks ago I stumbled upon ISicily (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ISicily&#x2F;ISicily">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ISicily&#x2F;ISicily</a>), a project to encode all ancient sicilian inscriptions in a strict xml language called EpiDoc. While the existing website is great I wanted to make an interface which makes it easy to explore the human stories contained within the inscribed text. In order to aid searching for concepts&#x2F;terms I&#x27;ve also filled in missing translations&#x2F;commentary with Claude Sonnet-3.5 translations (this is meant as a recreational tool - these translations are not to be trusted...)Hopefully I&#x27;ll be able to add more datasets in the coming weeks - if you know any do shout!

Embedded the AI translation&#x2F;commentary (or human translated if present) - main purpose of the AI translations was to improve embeddings.

Really cool. Did you embed the AI commentary&#x2F;translations or the original untranslated text?

Wow! This is incredible. I love this!! Bring back the library of Alexandria!!

Oh, not that Barney Hill. Still really cool tho.

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