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?...

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...

#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 !

Dear friends, do I know anyone here who has experience in (digital) numismatics, in particular coin finds from Roman Antiquity? (Please repost if you might know someone!) Thx for any pointers.

We'd love to expand a little more to Old/Middle English manuscripts in the context of CATMuS, but we do not have much contact in this area. Would anyone be interested ?

🦋 We’ve made the move! The ALMAnaCH project-team at Inria Paris is now posting here. Follow us for news and updates about our research and seminar announcements!

Nominate now before it is too late! #DH #DigitalHumanities

Call for book chapter proposals: Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition. Edited by me, Paul Gooding, @semames.bsky.social & @jnockels.bsky.social. Proposals on any critical topic relating to automated and advanced text recognition (including OCR, HTR, etc) are welcome by 31st March 25.

🚨 Reminder 🌟 Join the ALMAnaCH team at Inria Paris as a Data Librarian for Ancient Greek Corpora. 📚 Apply here: jobs.inria.fr/public/class... 📅 Contract Type: Fixed-term (1 year) 🎓 Required Degree: Master's or equivalent 🇫🇷 Location: Paris, France 🏧 Salary: Starting 2.7k€ gross

Does anybody know if there's an escriptorium model that might work for 15th century Old Swedish (gothic cursiva)? And, how strict is the invitation system? Thank you!

First job: Data Librarian for Ancient Greek Starting ~ 2700 € (gross salary) Duration: A year Objectives: Managing the partners in the project, establishing objectives in terms of corpus and producing/controlling the quality of TEI XML Full description: recrutement.inria.fr/public/class...

First job: OCR / Machine Learning Engineer Starting ~ 2700 € (gross salary) Duration: A year Objectives: Enhancing / building a pipeline for producing XML TEI documents from raw scans. Full description: recrutement.inria.fr/public/class...

The news is official: starting in March, I will lead the project Corpus Liberatum Linguae Graecae which aims to complement the available work in Perseus and the Patristik Text Arkiv in order to help researcher have free access to Ancient Greek Texts. So JOB KLAXON #DH #DigiClass #NLP

Speaking of podcasts, how many of you include podcasts in your course bibliography? I like to offer them as an alternative to purely reading lists, even though it's not the same to talk about a podcast than about a paper.

I realized I've never advertised that I was invited to talk about handwritten text recognition and open science (my favorite topics) in a podcast a couple of months ago! The episode is online already, for the French-listeners: skhole.ecrituresnumeriques.ca/episodes/ep6...

I made a starter pack for grad students in DH, to build visibility for a rising group of scholars. If you want to be added (or know someone who should be), just comment! go.bsky.app/8Bju8SY

I was playing around with Feeds, so I created one to keep an eye on posts about different software for automatic text recognition, like Transkribus or eScriptorium. I'm all ears to feedback if anyone is interested! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Thrilled to share that the CHR2024 proceedings are now live! 🚀 This incredible collection reflects the hard work of so many in the Computational Humanities community. Excited to see these papers presented at the conference in December! 🎉📚 ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/ Register here: events.au.dk/chr2024/

Computational Humanities is now available! (OA version this winter.) Thank you to the amazing contributors, co-editors extraordinaire @dmimno.bsky.social and Jessica Marie Johnson, the team Minessota, and series editors @laurenfklein.bsky.social and Matt Gold! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791598...

Please find the DH2024 Book of Abstracts here for your reimbursement or citational needs: zenodo.org/records/1376...

main-princeton.icims.com/jobs/19738/r... CDH is hiring!

I decided to run the 2025 Paris Marathon for the Gustave Roussy Institute, the Leading Cancer Centre in Europe. This is a cause close to my heart, as cancer has touched my family, my friends and colleagues: marathon-paris.dossards-solidaires.org/fundraisers/...

Looking for a job with impact? Join the British Library as a Digital Curator, OCR/HTR and help make the Library's collections more accessible to readers and computational methods! blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho... Closes Sunday 21 July 2024. Pay close attention to questions in the application process.

We are working on making a guidelines website. But you must know we have a public discord community, which aims at helping people using our Kraken models, helping people make transcription decisions, etc. Join the adventure at discord.com/invite/J38xg...

We are very happy to publicly release the CATMuS Medieval dataset on @huggingface.bsky.social : huggingface.co/datasets/CAT... This dataset is unique in the space of HTR, as it includes more 160 000 lines of ground truth in 10 languages over 9 centuries (8-16 CE) in Latin scripts over 208 docs.

Just before going on a break last month, @ponteineptique.bsky.social and I published a blog post on how we designed a server to deploy the #HTR application eScriptorium at Inria Paris! I repost today because some of you may have missed it :)

Est-ce que dans mes contacts quelqu'un maîtrise le néerlandais du XVIIIe siècle ? J'ai besoin de traduire une phrase de 10 mots !

[#phd] 📢 A new blog post freshly published, redacted at 4 hands with @ponteineptique.bsky.social! We discuss infrastructure design to deploy eScriptorium, based on our experience with #CREMMA, as well as alternatives to contribute to the existing ecosystem! alix-tz.github.io/phd/posts/017/

Very happy to a part of this great adventure to produce good data and good models for the community of users of HTR! 😁

DH Folks, I am delighted to be a part of planning the 2024 Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Conference, which will take place at McGill from the 16th-19th of June. If you could please lend a hand in sharing this CFP, that would be fantastic: csdh-schn.org/csdh-schn-co...

Ce vendredi, nous avons le plaisir de recevoir @dorialexander.bsky.social au séminaire du Pireh : "Large language models pour les humanités numériques : analyser, décrire et imaginer des corpus avec des modèles de langues". RDV à la Sorbonne ou sur Zoom à 9h30.

If you are attending #CHR2023 and want to spread the good words about HTR-United (which we don't present at CHR), Thibault and I have lots of stickers in our pockets! Feel free to come talk to us to get some!

Presenting “Structural Characteristics in Historical Networks Reveal Changes in Political Culture: An Example From Northern Song China (960–1127 C.E.)” at 11:30am Paris Time at #CHR2023 with Professor Song Chen, Yuqi Chen, and Professor Jana Diesner. Full paper at: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/pap.... 1/5

Very very honored and delighted to have been awarded the Prize for Open Science and Research Data (Prix Science Ouverte des données de la recherche) with @ponteineptique.bsky.social for our project #HTR_United! It is such an honor!

[📢 #phd] Oh! A new post on my research blog! I'm testing a new format which I tagged under the category "reading-notes"! I discuss one of my most recent readings: "On the Hidden Mystery of OCR in large multimodal models" (by Liu et al.) 😃 alix-tz.github.io/phd/posts/016/

We're hiring for #CoSTARNetwork Realtime Lab! Research Associate as RD&I Fellow in the area of AI-enhanced workflows for mixed reality with Chris Lu and me at Informatics, Edinburgh Uni. Focus on ML and realtime asset generation in graphics. Close 18/12/23. Please share! #generativeAI #compsci #R&D