1/3 Thanks to @atrium-eu.bsky.social we are happy to unveil the new HTR United htr-united.github.io ! - New internationalization system - New browsing interface for the corpora - New form to register your corpus and help you build metrics ( htr-united.github.io/document-you... )

Our book on Automated/Handwritten Text Recognition is out and it is open access :). bielefelduniversitypress.de/publikatione... #htr #atr #digitalhumanities

🎓 Interested in a PhD at Inria Paris on task-specific, linguistically motivated evaluation in NLP? We are currently inviting applications through the PRAIRIE-PSAI PhD call. The deadline to apply (via the Inria jobs website: link given below) is 17th May 2026. jobs.inria.fr/public/class...

Turning a new page with eScriptorium... and we wanted to talk about it with you. In a blog written with Mathew Barber, we went into explaining what 1.0 is, represents for our team, and how we are trying to improve our transparency, how "our team" work. escriptorium.eu/blog/2026-04...

We are looking for a full stack developer to join our team for eScriptorium ! Application deadline March 31st: www.euraxess.fr/jobs/417083

Software development engineer (Full Stack) specializing in web applications/eScriptorium

This engineering position for one year is open within the eScriptorium project team in AOROC at the École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université PSL.

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If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

Paris friends! Amis parisiens ! This Thursday is the first of four public lectures I'm giving on AI and philology, broadly defined: "Philological Reasoning and Computational Models." The advertisement is in French, but the lectures are in English. I'd also love to meet while I'm here in March! 1/

Workshop (Call for proposals) – Analysing Cultural Heritage Documents: HTR/OCR, Information Extraction, and Textual Variation prima.hypotheses.org/3737

Workshop (Call for proposals) – Analysing Cultural Heritage Documents: HTR/OCR, Information Extraction, and Textual Variation

Workshop (Call for proposals) – Analysing Cultural Heritage Documents: HTR/OCR, Information Extraction, and Textual Variation  AI for Cultural Heritage Documents: HTR/OCR, Information Extraction, and ...

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This week saw the release of eScriptorium 1.0.0, the end of years of work and a last run done by H, Aguili at @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social The new UI is much better, you can discover it at youtu.be/WEf42RlweZA

Bienvenue sur eScriptorium 1.0

YouTube video by Thibault Clérice

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The deadline for submissions to the upcoming Digital Humanities Summer Institute aligned conference in Montreal is this Friday, January, 30, 2026. La date limite pour soumettre des propositions au colloque parallèle du Digital Humanities Summer Institute est fixée à ce vendredi 30 janvier 2026.

'“We received a total of 32,763 manuscripts, mostly in Old French and Latin, which we transcribed in four months”, explains Thibault Clérice - infinitely quicker than it would have taken to complete such a task manually.'

CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed

Transcribing thousands of medieval manuscripts by hand would be a monumental undertaking. Fortunately, researchers in computational humanities at the Inria Paris Centre have been able to automate the ...

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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it

I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

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Want to keep up with everything happening around #CHR2025 on Bluesky? Follow the feed we created to catch all related posts in one place: bsky.app/profile/did:...

I am very happy to not be repeating the AI class I did in fall 2023, but this is the first piece of AI-themed writing that made me laugh so hard I almost wish I could put it on the syllabus.

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's time to talk to you about my cat.

I added a new post on my research blog last week. I wanted to react to a post from Dan Cohen that I've seen circulating on BlueSky last week about Gemini 3, and figured I would add my critical 2 cents to the mix! alix-tz.github.io/phd/posts/025/

Does anyone have a dataset of 1,000 + pages of handwritten text on Transkribus that they want to use for finetuning a VLM? If so, please let me know. This would be for any language and any script.

It's been brewing for months: @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social releases CoMMA (Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives) ! 📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts 🕰️ 800→1600 CE 📜 23k manuscripts 🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr 🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1 (1/🧵)

🚨Job ALERT🚨! My old postdoc is available! I cannot emphasize enough how much a life-altering position this was for me. It gave me the experience that I needed for my current role. As a postdoc, I was able to define my projects and acquire a lot of new skills as well as refine some I already had.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Coming up on Oct 3-4, 2025 at Central European University: OCR/HTR Workshop for Under-resourced &Under-represented Languages in DH, funded by the Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations &CLARIAH-AT! (Main organizer: yours truly) #digitalhumanities #multilingualdh #textrecognition #ocr #htr

Have high quality data sitting on Transkribus? Want to make it available on @hf.co with a single command line? Introducing Transkribus-HF which allows you to take a Transkribus export zip and make it into a HF dataset! It can parse pages, regions, lines, or windows! github.com/wjbmattingly...

Already on my way back, but these past few days I was in Princeton at the IAS to talk about HTR and its future with a whole lot of interesting people I was happy to meet or see again! The IAS campus is quite a unique place, I'm very happy I was given the opportunity to travel there! 🦌🌳

Tomorrow (Wednesday, 11 June), if you’re in Paris, come see the many presentations open to the public. #medieval Demain, le mercredi 11 juin, rejoignez-nous à Paris pour la partie de la conférence ouverte au public. Il y aura plein d’interventions passionnantes. École nationale des chartes, Paris

Call for Nominations: The Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity 2025 is now open. Submit your nomination or self-nomination by 30 June 2025. @teiconsortium.bsky.social tei-c.org/activities/r...

Team: Get infected with enthusiasm for Death by Numbers and 17th century London with @jmotis.bsky.social on the @oieahc.bsky.social's Digital Humanities Coffeehouse series: youtu.be/MmfJidjs370?...

Death By Numbers: Morality Records & Plague in Britain

YouTube video by Omohundro Institute

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The results from #DH Awards 2024 are released! Results: dhawards.org/dhawards2024... Statistics: dhawards.org/dhawards2024... Winners can use the corresponding icon, I mean, if they want to.

#digiclass If you have #Epidoc inscriptions / papyri, I would love to have a test run with this...

Thibault Clérice@ponteineptique.bsky.social · last yr.

If you are a Python developer and are interested in Distributed Text Services, I have just adapted some of my code to deal with milestone/lb/pb in Dapytains when used in conjunction with CiteStructure. I'd like to have testers and test corpora for this: github.com/distributed-...

#DHSI this year will take place at @umontreal.ca between the 26th of May and the 6th of June. I have the pleasure to co-chair the DHSI Aligned Conference with Moni Razavi (@uottawa.bsky.social). It's a series of short conference sessions held at the end of two days each week of the DHSI! ➡️ dhsi.org

Are you interested in cultural transmission, medieval manuscripts or digital humanities, and want to pursue a PhD in a city bustling with intellectual and cultural life ? Come work with us !

LostMa ERC@lostma.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Job offers We are recruiting two PhD students in computational philology, to work on textual transmission with a methodology blending cultural evolution models, philology and data analysis 🧪 Deadline: 31 March 2025