The diagnosis seems to be clear: I have started building a retro gadget museum—probably a typical coping mechanism for middle-aged men.

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

What a beauty. I have bought Casio BN-40 from 1998/1999 (if I found it well). Time for Retro Digital Humanities?

I decided to solve the terminological issue regarding Digital Humanities, Computational Humanities and Humanities Computing. #dh #digitalhumanities

Working hard on my presentation.

Remarkable 2 and Viwoods AiPaper. Viwoods AiPaper has slightly larger screen but it is lighter and its overall dimensions are smaller.

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...

Finally reading Harry Potter in Latin. And it is weird: weird vocabulary, weird syntax. Both feels very "English". It feels a little bit like reading a medieval Latin text, where you feel the vernacular language behind it. I still have fun though.

I will try to use Roam research for a couple of weeks again. It feels actually quite okay after that time.

I opened Roam Research after a long time ... and it is like travelling in time. There are all those old notes I did and my old CSS still work! No idea what is happening now with the tool. Are there many people still using it? Hopefully yes.

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

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

"You are an expert Latin Paleographer" and by "you", I mean "you - LLM" :). Try it out! #htr #atr #dh

HTR Winter School 2025 is underway, with Czech medievalists as well ✨ @digilab-imafo.bsky.social @burnedlegate.bsky.social @martin.rocek.dev @catominor.bsky.social

The final sign of decline is when you start to design your todo app... instead of working on more important things.

Simulate CER! The most exciting simulator ever built.

Struggling with the interoperability between Transkribus and eScriptorium? Try our convertor. #atr #htr

Hard challenge! Can you beat it? ;) Maybe @scholipeta.bsky.social ?

Something we are doing right now :). Every day a Vibe coded app until Christmas. :D

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

And the award for the best design and user experience in the button department of public transport comes to the trinity of buttons in Prague trams. A fun fact: if you want to get out of the tram with a baby carriage, you have to press the small black button twice.

@leaflet.pub Is there a possibility how to move an existing leaflet doc to a publication? :)

Is there some easy to use local LLM for translating PDFs/documents? Ideally for Mac? :)

To assimilate or not to assimilate – that is a late medieval palaeographical question!

I went through the terms and conditions of #transkribus to make my previous post more substantiated and clearer. #atr #htr

Me and my never-ending struggle with #eink devices. #remarkable #onyxboox

You can still apply for the Winter School: Handwritten Text Recognition of Historical Sources :). Deadline: 15th September. www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/verans...

Me at IMC Leeds. #digitalhumanities #middleages

I wonder how accurrate these replies about HTR technology are. To be honest, I find LLMs quite useful for explaining this type of information but - of course - it is difficult for me to verify.

I have to start a conspiration theory that #imcleeds has purposefully bad coffee at the conference, so you buy coffee from coffee shops on the campus.

I was too quick with my hopes. Eurostart train broke down. Delay... at least two hours? But who knows. Last announcement was in French and Flemish... Anybody else travelling to IMC Leeds stranded in Brussels? :D

Travelling by train from Vienna to IMC Leeds is always an adventure — this time with three train changes! 😲 So far, the journey is going well (I'm currently traveling from Amsterdam to Paris).

Considering switching from Dropbox to something else (privacy reasons) and I found out about pCloud. Do you have experience with it? :)

On the afternoon of Saturday 14 June I'll be speaking about the amazing treasure trove that is the Latin literature of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at London's Skaryna Library. You can book a place over on fb: www.facebook.com/events/17707...

Today I learned that in 1984, they were preparing a digital edition of a text by typing it on a typewriter with an OCR-R font and then scanning it. (Hans Fix: Production and usage of a machine-readable manuscript).

Interested in hearing about a new alternative to Transkribus and eScriptorium? This Wednesday, from 15:00 to 16:30, there will be a virtual presentation of Calfa Vision by Baptiste Queuche, organized by IMAFO, Austrian Academy of Sciences.See the details: www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/verans... #htr #atr #dh

Ok, it’s time to settle this 1st c. SHORT 2nd c. LONG 3rd c. SHORT 4th c. SHORT 5th c. LONG 6th c. SHORT 7th c. LONG 8th c. SHORT 9th c. SHORT 10th c. LONG 11th c. SHORT 12th c. LONG 13th c. LONG 14th c. SHORT 15th c. SHORT 16th c. LONG 17th c. LONG 18th c. SHORT 19th c. LONG 20th c. SHORT

The #ANTIDOTE expert workshop on 'Scale and Scalability' is now underway at @tcddublin.bsky.social. This week, we cover data scraping & wrangling, OCR & HTR, corpus linguistics & visualisation techniques for historical texts and manuscripts. antidote.hi.is #DH #medievalsky

My fascination with this inscription in Prague will never cease. I refuse to Google why the image looks so strange. :) I don’t want to shatter the magic.

Starting now!

Still possible to register for a virtual lecture by Marcus Pöckelmann on the LERA collation tool. :) Registration instructions are available on the website: www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/verans... . #dh #digitalhumanities

Join us next Wednesday for a virtual lecture by Marcus Pöckelmann on the LERA collation tool. Registration instructions are available on the website. www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/verans... #dh #digitalhumanities

Are Early Medieval Books your thing? We have a summer school course for you!👇 #Skystorians #MedievalSky ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...

Hi All. #PKMWeekly (May the 4th be with you) is live @obsidian.md make .md plugin and Obsidian from an engineer's point of view #logseq DB updates (no desktop app yet) and LLM @tana.inc App and AI updates and 7 ninja tricks @wcools.bsky.social #Thymer split view 👇

If you are in Vienna on Wednesday and interested in digital humanities, then this :).

Do you use a word "analogue" as the opposite of "digital"? Like "in the analogue world", "an analogue object" etc.? If so, why? :)

I knew about "diplomatic", "semi-diplomatic" and "hyper-diplomatic" editions, but today I learned that there are also "quasi-diplomatic" transcriptions. From the presentation by David J. Birnbaum.

📜 ‘VisColl and the Virtual Book Object: Rethinking Manuscript Collation in Digital Space’, by @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social How does digitisation redefine materiality? What does it mean to reconstruct the medieval book as a digital object? 📆 13 May 2025 (Online) ▶️ Registration: tinyurl.com/4uj4vth3

Glosario de crítica textual (4): a lucidarios.hypotheses.org/8518. Nueva entrada: anopistógrafo, atétesis, copista, escriba y opistógrafo.