# Plinth
> Small museums and special collections carry large amounts of undocumented knowledge in accession books, object files, handwritten notes and incomplete catalog records.

## Entries
- [Writing Object Labels at Three Reading Lengths: A Practical Guide](https://plinth-e2k.pages.dev/writing-object-labels-three-reading-lengths/): AI writing tools can help adapt an object description into short, medium and extended label text, but each version must preserve the same documented facts.
- [Transcribing a Nineteenth-Century Accession Ledger: A Line-by-Line Guide](https://plinth-e2k.pages.dev/transcribing-nineteenth-century-accession-ledgers/): Handwritten text recognition can make nineteenth-century accession ledgers easier to transcribe, but historical handwriting creates problems that ordinary text.
- [Missing Fields in Museum Catalog Records: What AI Can and Cannot Supply](https://plinth-e2k.pages.dev/missing-fields-museum-catalog-records/): AI assistants can identify missing catalog fields, suggest controlled wording and reorganize information already present in an object record.
- [Matching Museum Object Descriptions to Controlled Subject Terms: A Practical Guide to AI-Assisted Cataloging](https://plinth-e2k.pages.dev/matching-object-descriptions-subject-terms/): AI assistants can suggest subject headings and museum thesaurus terms from an object's description, helping catalogers identify useful access points and reduce.
- [Semantic Search in Museum Collections: A Guide to Finding Objects Beyond Exact Keywords](https://plinth-e2k.pages.dev/semantic-search-small-museum-collections/): Semantic search helps researchers find collection records through related meanings and concepts, even when their search wording differs from the catalog.
- [Cataloging Born-Digital AI Characters: What Museums Should Record About Characters and Platforms](https://plinth-e2k.pages.dev/cataloging-born-digital-ai-characters/): An AI character can be a collecting subject in its own right, but its documentation should distinguish the fictional identity, the platform that presents it.

## About
- [About Plinth](https://plinth-e2k.pages.dev/about/): what the site covers and how entries are made

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