ai-scholarly

Research projects and scholarly data — 21 projects, 38 PDAI collections, 100,000+ processed pages
Published

April 15, 2026

~/ai-mac-studio/scholarly/ contains all research projects and scholarly data — 21 active projects and 38 PDAI collections with over 100,000 processed pages.


Home-Level Projects

Large active development projects at ~/ai-mac-studio/scholarly/.

Project Size Status Git Description
ai-sundial3d 14 GB active dev git 3D animation and visualization of ancient sundials — primary active research
ai-applevoicerecorder 2.3 GB active – Apple Voice Recorder data research

research/ — Source Material and Archives

Long-lived research repositories containing primary source material, archived branches, and active writing projects at ~/ai-mac-studio/scholarly/research/.

Project Size Status Git Related PDAI Description
ai-sundial3d 14 GB active – sundial Sundial research data branch
CopernicusReichstag 2.6 GB archive – copernicus-prim Copernicus Reichstag primary sources
CopernicusPDF 1.3 GB archive – copernicus-sec Copernicus secondary PDF collection
ai-reporter 594 MB active – — Voice recording and transcription research
newpublication 483 MB writing – — Active paper drafts — symlinked from ai-publication
Regiomontanus 701 MB archive – — Regiomontanus primary source material
computationalEpistemology 1.9 MB archive – — Computational epistemology research
DeutschesMuseum 5.5 MB archive – — Deutsches Museum source archive
Goddu 3.2 MB archive – — Goddu archive
Rundbrief 2.3 MB archive git — Rundbriefe collection (5 commits, last 2025-11)
ai-scholar 8.6 MB active – — PDAI pipeline research branch
schilt 932 KB archive – — Schilt material
US-Archive-NS 84 KB archive – — US Archive material
ai-dataframe 180 KB archive – — DataFrame experiments

projects/ — Packaged Research Tools

Installable Python packages (hatchling) at ~/ai-mac-studio/scholarly/projects/.

Package Size Git Description
ai-nepi2 4.7 GB – NEPI2 research tools — network epistemology analysis. arXiv paper linked via ai-publication
ai-argument 817 MB git Argumentation analysis — extract and map argument structures from historical texts
ai-karman-manager 126 MB git Karman project management (1 commit, 2026-03-14)
ai-repository 17 MB – Research repository management utilities
ai-komparativ-transkription 9.3 MB – Comparative transcription workflows

PDAI Collections

Processed document collections on /Volumes/PDAI-1/pdai-collections/. Each collection feeds into the PDAI pipeline via ai-scholar.

Processing states: Full PDAI = OCR + XML segmentation complete · OCR = page-level XML done, manifest pending · Indexed = classified into PDAI-1, awaiting OCR · – = placeholder / empty

Early Modern Science — Copernicus, Kepler, Euler

Collection Docs Pages Processing Description
eulerOO 84 2,034 Full PDAI 82/84 Euler Opera Omnia — mathematical treatises, Latin
enestroem 766 27,047 OCR Eneström index of Euler’s works — 766 individual papers
kepler-prim 26 40,553 OCR Kepler Gesammelte Werke — primary sources
kepler-sec 18 87 OCR Kepler secondary literature
copernicus-prim 9 3,117 OCR Copernicus primary sources
copernicus-sec 54 6,132 OCR Copernicus secondary literature
bernoulli-gw 1 5 OCR Bernoulli Gesammelte Werke
waefler-prim 9 861 OCR Wäfler primary sources — gnomonics
waefler-sec 15 2,361 OCR Wäfler secondary — sundial literature

Scientific Instruments

Collection Docs Pages Processing Description
sundial 6 1,043 OCR Sundial sources — feeds ai-sundial3d research
ancient-waterclocks 1 5 OCR Ancient water clock literature
ancient-metrology 1 5 OCR Ancient metrology
phototechnology 8 40 OCR Photo technology history
architektur-antik 4 18 OCR Ancient architecture

Greek and Babylonian Astronomy

Collection Docs Pages Processing Description
greek-astronomy 29 123 OCR Greek astronomical texts
babylonian-astronomy 8 37 OCR Babylonian astronomy
ancient-library 1 4 OCR Ancient library sources
ancient-philosophy-sec 4 14 OCR Ancient philosophy secondary
classical-philology 1 5 OCR Classical philology

History of Science

Collection Docs Pages Processing Description
renn 13 62 OCR Renn archive — history of mechanics
neugebauer 6 27 OCR Neugebauer archive — exact sciences antiquity
euler_sec 16 64 OCR Euler secondary literature
early-modern-history-sec 6 25 OCR Early modern history secondary
medieval-sec 4 20 OCR Medieval science secondary
wissenschaftneuzeit 12 54 OCR Science in early modernity
wissenschaftstheorie 7 31 OCR Philosophy and theory of science
history-of-biology-sec 3 14 OCR History of biology secondary
economy 9 37 OCR Economic history sources
modern-physics 1 4 OCR Modern physics literature
gerd 1 1 OCR Gerd personal archive

Empty / Placeholder

Collection Description
causality – Causality research — placeholder
greek-signs – Greek signs — placeholder
grasshoff – Grasshoff archive — placeholder
grasshoff-scholar – Grasshoff scholarly — placeholder
technology – Technology — placeholder
00sammlung – General collection — placeholder
Libary – Library index — placeholder
bischof – Bischof — placeholder

Totals

Category Count
Home-level projects 2
Research archives 14
Packaged tools 5
Total projects 21
PDAI collections (non-empty) 30
Total documents in PDAI ~1,100
Total processed pages ~84,000
Full PDAI (OCR + manifest) 82 (eulerOO)

For the processing pipeline, see PDAI Collections. For publication outputs from this research, see ai-publication.