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Wide Streets Commission Archive

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An experimental archive project turns eighteenth-century Dublin’s handwritten land records into structured, searchable data.

Why it surfaced

The site tackles thousands of pages of difficult cursive records with eleven dedicated OCR systems and open-weight vision models running on private hardware. Its source material comes from the Dublin City Library and Archive, covering the Commission’s property dealings and street restructuring from 1757 to 1848.

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Lunch Through the Bee Veil

August 11’s newborn domains include a bee veil with a lockable lunch flap, a book designed to unfold over ten years, a Colombian missing-person and aid board, and a brick studio made by a dad and his 10-year-old co-founder.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-11 Domain Arrivals issue.

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