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Óscar Puente announced his resignation as Minister of Transport in defense of political dignity, coherence, and empathy with the victims after the railway accidents in Urda and Adamuz, and shared a cartoon by Forges on social media that highlights the differences between politicians. #Dimisión #Forges #Transporte (translated)

Cerfia reported, citing BFM Business, that the Forges de Tarbes, presented as the only French factory producing shells for Caesar cannons, could have to interrupt their production. According to the report, the prefecture had given the factory a formal notice to bring several machines up to standard before December 31, under the threat of a shutdown. Cerfia also mentioned aging machines, financial difficulties, and problems with steel supply. #France #Défense #Industrie (translated)

Code-Reinho-Tactical wrote that Les Forges de Tarbes, which it presented as the only French factory producing 155 mm shell bodies for Caesar cannons, risks having to permanently stop its machines following a government decision. According to him, the prefecture of Hautes-Pyrénées had asked the company to comply with the regulations on pressure equipment before the end of the year. He indicated that an inspection carried out on July 9 highlighted five pieces of equipment used to operate hydraulic presses that were overdue for requalification, and nine others that were due for requalification by mid-August. He estimated that the regulations and bureaucracy were harmful both to the French economy and to national defense. https://t.co/MM57G1PcqH #Industrie #Défense #Réglementation (translated)

The Forges de Tarbes, the only French shell manufacturing plant, is going through a major crisis marked by a lack of orders, raw materials, and investments, in addition to a recent production interruption due to technical breakdowns. #ForgesDeTarbes #IndustrieFrançaise #Réarmement (translated)

The Forges de Tarbes, the only French factory manufacturing shells for Caesar guns, is facing an acute crisis marked by production delays, unpaid wages, and obsolete machinery, leaving employees uncertain about the future of their jobs. #ForgesDeTarbes #IndustrieFrançaise #Armement (translated)

Hello everyone, the code for Aracne2 has been on GitHub for a few months now — a modular CMS for editing and publishing TEI corpora. A companion volume, published by FedOA Press, covers its origins, architecture and features in detail. Code (MIT): https://github.com/orazionelson/aracne2 Site and documentation: https://orazionelson.github.io/aracne2/ Volume: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-439-1 The underlying idea is to take a corpus from raw transcription to a citable digital edition without forcing the person editing the text to become a sysadmin as well. In brief: – schema-aware XML editor, with validation per document and across a whole collection; – staged editorial workflow with versioning and a clean split between working copy and published copy; – named entities linked to authority files (Wikidata, VIAF, GeoNames, ORCID, GND and others); – bibliography with BibTeX/CSL-JSON/Zotero import and DOI resolution; – facsimiles and zones for text-image alignment; – XSLT-driven public site generator, with configurable indices and search portals; – LOD and OAI-PMH for harvesting, deposit to Zenodo, Dataverse, Internet Archive and git forges; – audit log and fixity, plus policy pages aimed at projects preparing for a CoreTrustSeal review. Architecturally, there are two distinct data layers: PostgreSQL for platform state (users, roles, plugins, audit), eXist-db for TEI documents, stored natively and queried in XQuery. Python/FastAPI backend, Vue 3 frontend, fully containerised. Every integration is a plugin that mounts without a restart, so a deployment can stay minimal or grow along with the project. The AI side is there but optional and can be switched off: in-editor assistance (explaining validation errors, normalising bibliography, tagging named entities), local RAG over the TEI P5 Guidelines, and a read-only MCP server that lets an external assistant query the corpus. Anyone who cannot or would rather not send their texts to a cloud service can run the whole thing locally with Ollama. Aracne2 is the third iteration of a line of tools that began in 2008 with MaRa, the scripts written to mark up the Angevin Registers, continued with Aracne (2016-2026, built entirely on eXist-db), and arrives at this rewrite. The FedOA Press volume reconstructs that trajectory at length. It is all free: you can download it and try it locally with a handful of commands. Aracne2 is open to experiment and ready to be put to the test on new projects — reports, criticism and proposals are all welcome.

L'usine des Forges de Tarbes, la seule en France à fabriquer des corps d'obus pour le canon Caesar, est en danger de fermeture en raison de la situation financière précaire de sa maison mère Europlasma, exacerbée par des investissements douteux et l'inaction de l'État dans un contexte d'incertitude croissante. #ForgesDeTarbes #IndustrieFrançaise #Artillerie

The recent European Political Community summit in Yerevan, attended by European leaders and Ukraine's President Zelenskyy, marks a pivotal shift for Armenia as it distances itself from Russia and forges closer ties with the EU following strained relations and Azerbaijan's reclamation of the Karabakh region. #Armenia #Geopolitics #EuropeanUnion #AM #CA #RU #UA #AZ