Claude and I have been working together to do more stuff since my first blog post about Claude.

We’ve added a whole lot of new things to our prototype Survey of Scottish Witchcraft site including a chatbot to ask questions about the data (a challenge received by Lesley Greer), ‘stories’ which are AI summaries of the people recorded in the database where we have the most data and a few new visualisations and bug fixes.

I tried to build an OER search – it was fun but I think it’s a good example of how to do things really badly. OER repositories sometimes have APIs to allow outside code to search them but not all of them do. So in the cases where there were no APIs or we couldn’t get an API key, we are scraping search results which is pretty horrible.  I think this is one I’d need a bit more time to sort out – I’d need to go and grab some API keys and honestly think I’d need to speak to repository owners because scraping search results is a really horrible way to do what’s needed and they might not like it very much.

Finally, as I mentioned in my previous blog post, I’m leaving the University and I was thinking, what could I leave Myles, the new Head of DLAM, as a present?  When I initially started the role myself, I always thought, what would Anne-Marie do in this situation?  Well.  I still don’t really know for certain what Anne-Marie would have done (I could take a guess) but Myles needs not to wonder what Karen would do because …..  I’m leaving him ‘Karen-Bot’ to help guide him in his first few days/weeks.

Please use her wisely and also ask your questions now. She, like myself, will be leaving soon.