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   Daniel Bellingradt (dbellingradt@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 21:15:02 JST Daniel Bellingradt

   And this happens when fingers that were used to hold down a book's page to be scanned were captured, and a software "repairs" this space automatically afterwards. In short: the scanned image is corrected by filling the problematic space with new content. In this case, this filling didn't fit too well: you see a "en=" text part from a different print, and some very bad pixel space. Welcome to the complex digital narrative of old printed books.

   #bookhistory #digitalhistory #history #histodons

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     Daniel Bellingradt (dbellingradt@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 21:14:59 JST Daniel Bellingradt

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     Again: the inserted sample clearly does not fit in here.

     Another weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person. Automatic repair systems corrupt digital heritage. #bookhistory
     #digitalhistory #histodons

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     Daniel Bellingradt (dbellingradt@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 21:15:00 JST Daniel Bellingradt

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     And here the ghost aka cloud is slowly taking over the page.

     Welcome to yet another example of how automatic repair systems - to be precise: finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person - do crush our digital heritage.

     #digitalhistory #histodons #bookhistory #digitization

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     Daniel Bellingradt (dbellingradt@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 21:15:00 JST Daniel Bellingradt

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     And another weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person. The inserted sample clearly does not fit in here (or anywhere else in this print, to be honest).

     That's a kind of data corruption, if you ask me. Automatic repair systems do corrupt our digital heritage.

     #bookhistory #digitalhistory #histodons #history #digitization

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     Daniel Bellingradt (dbellingradt@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 21:15:01 JST Daniel Bellingradt

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     Is it a ghost? Is it a cloud? No, it is just a weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person.

     Welcome to another striking example of how automatic repair systems do crush our digital heritage. #bookhistory
     #digitalhistory #histodons #history #digitization

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     Daniel Bellingradt (dbellingradt@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 21:15:02 JST Daniel Bellingradt

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     A loud shout out to the finger image removal technologies. You all contribute to making #bookhistory with access to the originals worth while.

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