📣 Registration is open for the Digital Humanities Congress 2026! 🗣️ Keynotes from James Baker (Southampton) & Arianna Ciula (King's Digital Lab) 📅 2–3 September 2026 📍 The Edge, University of Sheffield ➡️ Register: onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/conferences-...
This week is AI-busy at IMAFO: 11. 6. Georg Vogeler`s lecture "On the Relationship of Artificial and Human Intelligence in Working with Medieval Documents and Manuscripts." 12. 6. a hybrid workshop "Automated Text Recognition of Historical Sources", see indico.global/event/18214/ #atr #htr
Hybrid Workshop - Automated Text Recognition of Historical Sources: From convolutional neural networks to vision language models
Automated or Handwritten Text Recognition has been making continuous progress, with new tools, models, and technologies emerging every year. This rapidly evolving field is becoming a "must-have" for m...
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Interested in exploring different applications of ATR/HTR? Join us for the hybrid workshop "Automated Text Recognition of Historical Sources: From convolutional neural networks to vision language models", 12 June, in Vienna or via Zoom. Programme and registration: indico.global/e/automated-...
Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (1) @digitalorientalist.bsky.social digitalorientalist.com/2026/04/28/i... @digilab-imafo.bsky.social @imafo-oeaw.bsky.social @coe-eurasia.bsky.social
📢 Late Call - #IMC2026 Tired of doomscrolling? We are looking for one more #DH paper for our session "The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time, II" at the IMC Leeds 2026, organised by @mshl-cdha.bsky.social imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... #CfP #medievalsky
I had this though since we had the Ruse of Reuse workshop in Vienna. Can I use current VLMs to provide me with transcription of text in MANU and add it as a transcription block? Seems I can. This one is done with Gemini 3 Flash, quite impressive. #IIIF #DigitalHumanities
Another update on Manu! Licences are now displayed throughout the app ensuring proper credit for the institution owning the images. Additionally, support for IIIF exports (with and without annotations) has been added. The design of settings page is still quite bare-bone. #IIIF #DigitalHumanities
Working on a little something to fix ink bleed-through in digitized manuscripts. The site is up, and we're gearing up to officially launch the tool on April 30. If you’re a researcher/archivist with some tricky folios, i’d love to test them out. translucens.humanities.tools
Translucens — Bleed-through Removal for Manuscript Scans
Translucens removes ink bleed-through and show-through from medieval manuscript folio scans using custom image processing pipeline.
translucens.humanities.tools
In a panel on 3/26 from the Humanities Council & @princetoncitp.bsky.social, experts will share how AI is already impacting all aspects of the field of journalism – from national to small local newsrooms to data analysis, gathering and checking facts, ensuring source security, and what’s to come.
AI x Journalism: Transforming the News — Journalism
Join the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) for this special event on how artificial intelligence is changing journalism and n...
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Want an easy way to find Scripture references in texts? Now you can. I modified our AI pipeline to perform scripture detection. It leverages Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (requires API key). It's fully open-source and found here: github.com/yale-ch/scri...
Join us for the public talk later today!
Liberating Information: Exploring Computational Methods to Study Histories of Information, from Decolonization to Digital Humanities
Liberating Information: Exploring Computational Methods to Study Histories of Information, from Decolonization to Digital Humanities
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@zoeleblanc.bsky.social leading a wonderful conversation on AI and data work in the @princetoncdh.bsky.social Modeling Cultures seminar series
Joins us to our 3rd KImafo-Lecture this Thursday (hybrid). William Mattingly will be discussing building AI pipelines for cultural heritage, using HTR, Named Entity Recognition, text-reuse identification and more! Details: tinyurl.com/kimafoIII #DigitalHumanities #AI #dh
From Physical Object to Structured Data
Building AI Pipelines in Cultural Heritage | 3rd Lecture of the KImafo Series
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Interested in AI for historical text-reuse and text-similarity detection? If you’re in Vienna on March 5–6, join our "Ruse of Reuse" workshop at the @imafo-oeaw.bsky.social . Registration and details: indico.global/e/ruse-of-re...
Interested in learning about a new HTR tool? Join tomorrow’s online Digital IMAFO Lecture: Michal Hradiš will present ScribbleSense, starting at 3 PM Central European Time. Register here: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/imafo/eve... #htr #atr #ocr #digitalhumanities #dh
ScribbleSense and Trends in Handwriting Recognition
Online Digital IMAFO Lecture | by Michal Hradiš
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24/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar :). The last but not least, a simple online StarDict Web Viewer: Display StarDict dictionaries without the need for any desktop app. #stardict #dh #ai advent-calendar.humanities.tools
23/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar. How well do you know the Middle Ages? Guess the location where a ‘photo’ was taken (i.e., how the AI imagined the place). (Use your computer for the best experience.) advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #geoguessing #humanities #humanities #ai
22/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar. Do you have many pictures of books and articles taken with your camera? Deskew and clean them using Photoscan Helper. #dh #ai #humanities advent-calendar.humanities.tools
21/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar! Royal Headache: The ball is the King's Head. Treat it with the disrespect it deserves. Created by @martin.rocek.dev #ai #dh #humanities #pong #revolution #rabbits #🐰 #🤴 advent-calendar.humanities.tools
After a great streak of vibe-coding for the IMAFO DigiLab Vibe Advent Calendar, I’m back to the classics! Currently refining the user dashboard for Manu, my IIIF manuscript viewer. It’s good to be back in the engine room. Still a lot of work, but that's the fun. 😊
Day 20/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar. We’re almost there! :) Today, something different: Stitch multiple images together and later decompose them again. advent-calendar.humanities.tools #htr #atr #vibecoding
19/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Calendar. re approaching the finish line! Today: Ever wanted to replace some characters in PageXML? Try our vibe-coded PageXML Transformer! It might even work! #atr #htr #vibecoding #dh advent-calendar.humanities.tools
Day 18/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar, and it’s time to get more festive! 🎊 Give any text a Christmas feeling with our new tool, made by @martin.rocek.dev . (Don’t forget to open the presents ;)). #txt #text #dh advent-calendar.humanities.tools
Day 17/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar.🎄 Today, another useful prompt by @martin.rocek.dev: Ask AI to transcribe Latin manuscripts in both diplomatic and normalized versions. :) #htr #atr #humanities #dh advent-calendar.humanities.tools
16/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar :). Today LayoutXML-to-trOCR tool created by @burnedlegate.bsky.social to easily convert PageXML and ALTO into training datasets for trOCR models. advent-calendar.humanities.tools #htr #atr #ocr #trOCR #machinelearning #ai
Day 15 of 24 in our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar. Have you tried LLMs for TEI-XML tasks, such as NER, and want to make sure that nothing was otherwise changed in the content? Check out the “Verify TEI” app by @martin.rocek.dev #dh #tei #teixml #humanities advent-calendar.humanities.tools
Ever dreamt of being a medieval scribe? Try our vibe coded app for the 14th day of our Advent Calendar: The Medieval Scribe Simulator. #dh #digitalhumanities advent-calendar.humanities.tools
That’s a wrap on HTR Winter School 2025 in Vienna! 🇦🇹 Huge thanks to everyone, and special thanks to the participants in the Medieval Czech group. You were wonderful and hard-working! It was a great experience and an honor to work with you. 📚🩵 @digilab-imafo.bsky.social
13th day of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar 📅 Visualize your CSV data easily! Created by @martin.rocek.dev . advent-calendar.humanities.tools #csv #dh #humanities #data