I can’t guarantee an online researcher/visitor has anything other than a browser and I sure as heck don’t want to walk them through installing something on whatever machine they’re using. I do enough tech support as it is.
Current plan is to have the web server do it, it’s just another thing on my plate that I need to figure out how to do.
Be sure to use a different pronoun for each site you visit.
We use it at my library/archive to convert EADs (XML finding aids) into something we can present to a human.
This change breaks something that’s been working for us without issue for over a decade, and it’s personally a PITA because I’m the only dev-adjacent person in the library and fixing this takes me away from other stuff. (I’m spread thin and we’ve been in a hiring freeze for 5 years. I love my coworkers but there’s so much work stuff I have to deprioritoze in order to do the important stuff, it feels unfair when a big corporation decides to break something on me.)
Shout out to “Saga Thing”, two English history professors reviewing all of sagas of the Icelanders.
Also “No Gods, No Mayors”, doing the same for all mayors ever (they admit it’ll take a while)
And “Pontifacts”, ditto for popes.
And “Totallus Rankium”, ditto for Roman emperors, then American presidents, then pirates…
Try “Kill James Bond”. They start with the James Bond franchise, which they hate. I highly recommend their Cars 2 episode. It’s unhinged.
Underjoke: the girlfriend is also autistic, and doesn’t make eye contact.
I love margin notes. My friends and I have a book exchange where we read a book, write in the margins, and pass it on to the next friend. It’s nice.