📣 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

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-...

A new book on HTR! Check it out, it is open access. #htr #atr #digitalhumanities

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

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.

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 the hybrid #HTR event organized by Rita Sawaya (University of Toronto) on 20 March 2026, 10:00–12:00 EST, featuring three IMAFO speakers: Jan Odstrčilík, Ephrem Ishac, and our collaborator Anna Michalcová. #dh #htr #ocr #atr ZOOM: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us for the public talk later today!

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

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

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

12/12 of our DH Vibe Coding Calendar: convert pagexml to an edition! :) Instantly! Made by @martin.rocek.dev . #dh #atr #htr #pagexml #humanities

Our Winter School: HTR of Historical Sources starts today! In our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar, we’re featuring an HTR/OCR tool for historical documents created by @burnedlegate.bsky.social Check it out! advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #htr #atr

10/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar 🎄, this time an useful AI prompt from @martin.rocek.dev to extract and link named entities from historical handwritten texts. :) advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #humanities #ner

Day 9 of the DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar! 🎄 Ever wondered what Character Error Rate actually looks like? Now you can simulate it with the most exciting and advanced CER Simulator ever made! advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #digitalhumanities #cer #htr #atr #ocr

Day 8 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar is here! Want better compatibility across HTR tools? Try the PaxeXML converter to seamlessly convert files between Transkribus and eScriptorium. Created by @burnedlegate.bsky.social. advent-calendar.humanities.tools #HTR #ATR #Transkribus #eScriptorium #dh

Even on Sunday, our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar keeps going! 🙌 Today, something different: Can you answer a medieval question? 😉 advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #scholasticism #middleages

Day six of our DH Vibe Coding Calendar is here! 📅 Ever dreamed of becoming a composer 🎼? Now you can become a Unicode Composer! Try out our new vibe-coded tool and start creating (composite unicode characters) today. advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #unicode #mufi #digitalhumanities

Ho, ho, ho! 🎅🧑‍🎄 The fifth day of the DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar has arrived—a super quick version of Cappelli’s Dictionary of Latin Abbreviations. But can you pass the captcha? 😉 advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #cappelli #latin #abbreviations

Thanks to the AI, we can finally explain some eternal questions, like why should you make critical editions? #dh #ai #humanities

Day 4 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar! 📅 IIIF Explorer: Never get lost in a #IIIF manifest again—view, download, split, and merge! (With some patience—optimization isn’t part of Vibe coding ;)) advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #tei @iiif.bsky.social @imafo-oeaw.bsky.social

The 3rd day of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar! Did you just transcribe your entire manuscript but forget to encode it in TEI? 😱 No problem! We’ve got you covered. Check out today’s calendar window to grab our system prompt that will handle it for you! advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #tei

Hey! It’s the second day of the DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar! 📆 Have you ever felt 😔 because your 📖 is missing some 📃? Introducing Manuscript Forger: No manuscript? No problem! Just add a few reference pages, click a button, and wait... advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #manuscripts #humanities

Ever wondered how HTR models work? 😲 Check out the first Vibe Coded app, created by Martin Roček for our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar. 🎄 advent-calendar.humanities.tools #htr #atr

Christmas is coming… and so is the AIpocalypse! 🎄🤖 Waiting can feel long, so to make it more fun, we are creating the DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar. One vibe coded app every day! :) #dh #digitalhumanities advent-calendar.humanities.tools