And so we kick off the @transkribus.bsky.social user conference in Passau, with @caromein.bsky.social, chair of READ-COOP board, introducing and welcoming us to discuss all things advanced text recognition, and cooperative, ethical, AI approaches.
C. Annemieke Romein
@caromein.bsky.social
Early modernist: political-institutional and legal (#Policey), Digital Humanities: HTR (@transkribus Community Director + chairperson of the Board), Automatic Metadata, LOD. ECHA specialist giftedness. Editor @DLH.
If you haven’t registered yet… do check out the wonderful program of the @transkribus.bsky.social User Conference in Passau 21-23rd of September. Be there in person or join us online! There is much to be learned and… some new things coming up! It’s going to be cool!!! #TUC2026
Recent Open Access publication: www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/9/.... A Reproducible Framework to Extract Multimodal Collections as Data in Museums: A Wikidata Approach - Gustavo Candela, Julie Birkholz and @caromein.bsky.social
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📯 cfp DHBenelux2027 is online so you have time to prepare! 2027.dhbenelux.org/call-for-pap...
Call for papers – DH Benelux 2027
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Well, it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. You can choose to make a lot open while ringfencing the assets your business model depends on. As our #DH2026 poster for @transkribus.bsky.social shows!
Carolina Ferraro's article, "The Pastoral Power of the Christian Prince in Pedro de Ribadeneyra's Tratado de la Religión" is live! Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Jessica Minieri@jessicaminieri.bsky.social · 6mo agoRoberto Quirós Rosado article, "Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu" is out! Read it here in Early Access: doi.org/10.1111/1468...
📢 The first Latvian Model for Transkribus! Trained on 19th-century manuscripts from the Riga Latvian Society, this model is ideal for handwritten materials, especially folklore manuscripts. Many thanks to project ȬPEN and all contributors!
Latvian model 19th century | Latvian Text Recognition Model | Transkribus
Description This text recognition model was created with the late 19th manuscripts from the collection of the Scientific Commission of the Riga Latvian Socie...
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It was wonderful connecting with the digital humanities community at #DHBenelux! Our Chair of the Board, @caromein.bsky.social, presented a poster exploring how the Transkribus cooperative balances community needs, long-term sustainability, and open access.
Together with Klaas van Gelder and Xavier Gillard (Rijksarchief België) I published a conference contribution on the use of ML/AI in archives and projects: zenodo.org/records/2005...
International Archives Symposium in Namur (2025). Open Data and AI. New chances for Archives? Proceedings
Archives are undergoing profound transformation. As institutions preserving cultural heritage and providing reliable information for society, public administrations, and research, they face new expect...
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Roberto's article is the next in our series with @hisjournalha.bsky.social that will be coming out in Early Access prior to print release in 2026-2027. The full virtual issue will be out in later 2027. Stay tuned for more soon! (cc: @roperlou.bsky.social @caromein.bsky.social)
Self-promotion warning (a/k/a 'still life in oldster' so splendid way to kick off day): @hisjournalha.bsky.social have seen fit to publish article duly vetted by @actualkatherine.bsky.social @jessicaminieri.bsky.social @caromein.bsky.social #earlymodern onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
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"The cooperative governance of artificial intelligence: The case of READ‑COOP’s Transkribus platform" by Morshed Mannan, Simon Pek and Vangelis Papadimitropoulos (2026). In Global Cooperative Economics and Movements (pp. 399-424). Routledge. www.routledge.com/Global-Coope...
Great to see @transkribus.bsky.social starting to be studied for its business model - cooperative AI! - rather than its sector/application/by users. This chapter draws heavily from my writing on our history, then gives us some steers from cooperative theory: www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl...
e-Reader | Taylor & Francis Group eBooks, Reference Works and Collections
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We would like to bring this wonderful conference in Serbia to the attention of our followers! Submissions possible until the end of this month:
We are happy to announce we now have a template for #Overleaf online. We will ask Overleaf to add it to their library, but it is available via GitHub: github.com/CARomein/DLH... #DLH #Overleaf
GitHub - CARomein/DLH_LaTeX_Overleafpackage: This is the LaTeX Overleaf file package to publish with the Journal for Digital Legal History.
This is the LaTeX Overleaf file package to publish with the Journal for Digital Legal History. - CARomein/DLH_LaTeX_Overleafpackage
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(Re)submitted a chapter for publication today, together with @ltdandreas.bsky.social and Jos Mooijweer on the ‘Changing Status of ATR’. On the use of #ATR in #archives! Stay tuned for updates on this - and other - publications!
🚨 Big news: We`ve finally cracked the code! 🩺🤯 Introducing the Transkribus Doctor Model, trained to read even the squiggliest of prescription lines! #AprilFools 😉
The History of Parliament is excited to announce a new 8-week internship position for postgraduate-level researchers, working with the House of Lords 1640-60 section. Follow the link below for more details on the role, and how to apply!
Internship: History of Parliament Trust, House of Lords 1640-60 Project - The History of Parliament
The History of Parliament is excited to announce a new 8-week internship position for postgraduate-level researchers.
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I can’t agree more!!! 500,000 users wow 🤩 Up towards the next milestone: 750,000!!!
Melissa Terras@melissaterras.bsky.social · 8mo agoI am so proud to be part of this team, and this full-stack cooperative. And proud that the library, archive, & historical community are showing how you can build useful, ethical AI that responds to the needs of a community: together. Half a million users, baby! 🤩
✍️ Workshop HTR Learn the basics of @transkribus.bsky.social and turn digitised manuscripts into searchable text (with @meemoo-be.bsky.social & GhentCDH). Participants may work with their own collection material (optional)! 📅 17 March 2026 | Ghent | free 🔗 Register here: meemoo.be/nl/vormingen...
Handgeschreven erfgoedcollecties doorzoekbaar maken met tekstherkenning
Wil je tekstueel erfgoed toegankelijk maken, bijvoorbeeld voor onderzoek? Met Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) kan je (gedigitaliseerde) handgeschreven teksten op een (semi-)geautomatiseerde manier ...
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🛎️ We have published a data paper on a Simple Knowledge Organisation System for Police-ordinances (Policey), by @caromein.bsky.social (UT, NL) and Andreas Wagner + Karl Härter from the @mpilhlt.bsky.social! Enjoy reading it here: openjournals.ugent.be/dlh/article/... #dlh #law #policey
No less then three @transkribus.bsky.social directors are present at the #FF2025 conference London: Andy Stauder, @melissaterras.bsky.social and Annemieke Romein If you have questions about the use of Transkribus do look for us! Happy to help you unlock every doc!
#HAICu research project is present at the #FF2025 conference with a poster on the Thursdaysession. You can also check out our poster online: zenodo.org/records/1760...
Absolutely delighted to keynote Cooperative AI in Istanbul today: telling everyone how we built @transkribus.bsky.social, and how it has flourished under READ-COOP. I usually speak about this to DH, Library & Archive audiences - great to show our wares to researchers of coops, & fab discussions.
Digital Legal History #dlh publication! #digitalhumanifies
Journal for Digital Legal History@dlh-journal.bsky.social · 12mo ago📎 Publication alert 🚨: ‘Testing New Methodologies and Approaches in Legal History Research’ by Homero Chiaraba Gouveia and Luiz Guilherme Bandeira Zanino. doi.org/10.21825/dlh...
We’re thrilled to launch our new Humans of AI podcast! Prof. @melissaterras.bsky.social of @transkribus.bsky.social — a cooperative AI platform transforming how libraries, archives, and museums bring history to life. 🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/ce0399b5 📺 youtu.be/qK5x4j7jiuQ #AI #CulturalHeritage
Onderweg naar Arnhem voor de #NDE_Hackalod namens team #HAICu-SCOPE! We gaan aan de slag met historisch materiaal van de #CollectieOverijssel en gaan dit visualiseren op kaarten!!!
