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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#TEIFriday Can anyone give examples of magical texts (spells/curses...) encoded in TEI XML? Any language, date, etc. #digitalhumanities #ancientmagic

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Mystery solved! As I suspected: an "Open in liiive" link in a CMS. Only a test site though, and crawled only by search engine bots not people. So, a bit of a disappointment really. (But eventually, liiive will find it's way - as Jeff Goldblum famously said.)

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For the past few days, I'm seeing 100+ #IIIF annotation rooms created daily on liiive.now w/ images from Texas A&M - but no one's annotating! Totally fine (obviously!) but I'm super curious what's going on. Know anything? DM me - I'd love to hear what folks are trying to do & see if I can help!

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Some news. Peripleo github.com/britishlibra... is set for a re-boot thanks to the Research Software Maintenance Fund www.software.ac.uk/research-sof.... We're going to rebuild Peripleo as an open, accessible, browser-based map app that can be configured without coding skills or hosting costs 1/2

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Thank you for this brief overview! #IIIF #IMMARKUS

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 09/06/2026

We have concluded successfully concluded negotiations on Australia’s association to Horizon Europe. Together, our researchers will drive progress in clean tech, digital transformation, health and climate resilience. More: link.europa.eu/tbK4xj

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Martin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

“IMMARKUS” presentation from - @hildedw.bsky.social & @aboutgeo.bsky.social at the @iiif.bsky.social Showcase #IIIF / Learn more about IMMARKUS here github.com/rsimon/immar...

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Makes sense. I used to have a concept of "draft annotations" in an earlier Annotorious version, managed via the store. Felt too complicated at the time, but I'm still undecided about it. Perhaps something to bring back in version 4 after all.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It's awesome! Can I ask how you're syncing the drawing phase? Before the actual annotation gets created? I've been back and forth with this in Recogito Studio and liiive.now, but in the end didn't add events for this in the core. But now that I see it, it looks really nice.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Using Annotorious if I see correctly :-) Looks wonderful!

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Voting is now open for DH Awards 2025–and #MachinaEmblematica, our enigmatic guide to the 16C Symbola et Emblemata, is nominated in the "DH for Fun" category. Check out all the great submissions and cast your vote here: dhawards.org/dhawards2025... Explore the Machina: machina.rainersimon.io

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Machina Emblematica

I am the Machina Emblematica, built to preserve the knowledge of Joachim Camerarius' Symbola et Emblemata and to guide those who seek it.

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Folks, the #PleiadesGazetteer has been nominated for the annual DH awards in the "dataset or model" category. There are, as always, many fantastic and important projects. If you use or have otherwise benefited from Pleiades, I hope you will consider voting for it: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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DH Awards 2025 Voting Form

This is the voting form for the openly-nominated openly-voted Digital Humanities Awards 2025. Please go look at the nominated resources at http://dhawards.org/dhawards2025/voting/ before voting. Vo...

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James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Vote early, vote once, ask your friends and neighbours to vote.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

As an Austrian dad of two teenagers I can confirm: very much in day-to-day use as an insult from the kids towards the parent generation ;-) (Personally I love the term, too.)

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IIIF Consortium @iiif.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

🗞️ ICYMI: the March #IIIF Newsletter is out, including: 📜 The preliminary program for the 2026 Annual Conference 🕯️ A viewer for cozy reading 🇫🇮 IIIF in Finland Read the full issue: mailchi.mp/iiif/mar-26

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IIIF Community Newsletter: March 2026

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We're very excited to be featured on the showcase in Amsterdam on day 1. We'll have an additional workshop in The Hague on day 4. immarkus.xmarkus.org github.com/rsimon/immar... with @aboutgeo.bsky.social Dawn Zhuang Lee SunKyu

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

BTW: this feature was sponsored by a supporter 🙌 If you rely on open source and need something specific, consider backing it–this is how projects stay alive. Just sayin’ 😉

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Small update to #Annotorious, my #JavaScript image annotation library: You can now rotate rectangle shapes! #OpenSeadragon #IIIF #ImageAnnotation #TypeScript #React

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Quick Q to the hivemind: has anyone successfully implemented image embedding in the browser *with WebGPU support*? All my attempts failed. Regardless of wether im using Transformers.js or onnxruntime-web, pre-built models or self-exported ONNX files – always seems to fall back to CPU. #help

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

👀 I need to look into this also! I just asked Claude to write an adapter for Annotorious / Recogito Text Annotator. I think it got neither the Annotorious nor the atproto side perfectly right. But it looked straightforward enough to work as a starting point for an actual implementation.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

IMO LLM code still fails for “real product” quality (with actual requirements on UX, architecture, maintainability,...). But for one-off tooling? It's hard to ignore.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Look, I'm as skeptical of vibe-coding as the next guy. But if you need a quick utility for personal / niche use, it’s wild. This morning I needed a GUI to test stuff for IMMARKUS. With three prompts, I got a full test environment: loads models + images, tests segmentation, embedding, indexing

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Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

📢 REMINDER: We're hiring a #DigitalHumanities Scientist to join our interdisciplinary DH Lab in Rome! 🔎 Focus: Digital art history, AI & machine learning, cultural heritage data, collaborative research ⏳ April 30, 2026 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/opportuni...

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Don't have the example available anymore, and we actually changed the prompt to *not* make such assumptions and instead stick to the facts. But still pretty intriguing how it inferred from poster language, themes, etc.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I had Gemini 3 transcribe & describe photographs of streetscapes with protest posters and/or political advertisement signs at some point, with no extra context. In some cases it connected them (correctly, in this case) to a specific Northern Ireland referendum in 2018.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The drawing tools all live in the same coordinate space as the image (rotate the image, you rotate the tools). But what you're describing (i.e. being able to keep the rectangle aligned with the viewport, regardless of image rotation) is essentially what the rotate-able rectangle tool would allow.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I hear you about the desire for neatness :-D I was also thinking about a "hold shift to force right angles" feature for the polygon tool (as well as a simple rotation handle on the rectangle) for the exact same reason.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Yes, I think the idea is that you'd have "ordinary" IIIF annotations (FragmentSelector rects or SVG shapes), and those would show up on the warped/geo-referenced map. But I agree on your point about not wanting to feature-bloat the Allmaps viewer & people could always crosswalk themselves.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Sounds great! Is the viewer online publicly? I'd love to take a look. About the tilted box: it's on my wishlist. But would realistically depend on a project sponsoring the dev time, TBH. (There's no base funding or anything for either of those projects.)

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The missing piece for now might be that you can't yet directly export or display the annotations in geo-coordinate space, on a map, directly I think. But I haven't quite kept up to date with the latest Allmaps developments as I should have. Perhaps that's also possible in the Allmaps Viewer by now?

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

That should work. You could also look into liiive.now for the transcription. Difference is that you can get a live manifest (copy of the Allmaps manifest + annotations) at a URL (rather than having to download + rehost).

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Real-time Collaborative Annotation for IIIF Collections

Collaborate in real-time on IIIF image collections. Annotate, view, and explore high-resolution images with your team. Even without a login.

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OpenSeadragon @openseadragon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We have released OpenSeadragon 6! This new version brings a powerful new data pipeline and two new tile sources, along with many additional improvements. Congrats to all of the contributors who made it possible! 🎉 github.com/openseadrago...

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Release v6.0.0 · openseadragon/openseadragon

NEW BEHAVIOR: OpenSeadragon Data Pipeline Overhaul (#2407, #2643, #2718, #2739, #2775, #2762, #2816, #2863, #2858, #2871 @Aiosa) DEPRECATION: Properties on tile that manage drawer data, or store d...

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Frederik Elwert @felwert.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

We’re looking for a Research Data Engineer (m/f/x) (3,5 years). If you have a #DigitalHumanities profile with experience in #TEI encoding, #OCR / #HTR, and #IIIF (or any of those and are willing to learn the rest), get in touch! The full time position can be split, so if (for whatever reason) […]

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Frederik Elwert @felwert.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

🚨 Job Alert: We’re hiring! The information infrastructure project INF of @sfb1475 currently has two openings for #DigitalHumanities researchers (full time, 3,5 years). We build the central research infrastructure for a collaborative research center comprising researchers working on metaphors in […]

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️ sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I love the scrollytelling format, and the visualizations by @nadiehbremer.com‬ are always the most engaging and beautiful 🤩 (Also we learn: if you need to get Google Trends results for more than 5 terms, you must normalize against the base bird!)

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CLARIAH-VL+ @clariahvl.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

🖼️ #IIIF Fridays: Discover IMMARKUS, an annotation tool for working smarter with digital image collections (Cc: @aboutgeo.bsky.social). In this online session, @hildedw.bsky.social will demonstrate how IMMARKUS can support your workflow! 📅 30 March (14:00-16:00) 📝 Register: meemoo.be/nl/vormingen...

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IIIF-Friday 13: IMMARKUS-workshop

Verrassing: de dertiende IIIF-Friday vindt voor een keer op een maandag plaats! Tijdens deze editie maak je kennis met IMMARKUS, een annotatietool van KU Leuven die je helpt om slimmer met beeldcollec...

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Big thanks to @atomotic.com for figuring out the IIPImage setup! 🙏

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Sharing my suite of free & open-source tools for: • real-time collaborative image annotation – liiive.now • simple publishing of small-/mid image collections as #IIIF – github.com/rsimon/tiny-... (If it's more than one tool it does count as a suite, right? :) #DigitalHumanities

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Real-time Collaborative Annotation for IIIF Collections

Collaborate in real-time on IIIF image collections. Annotate, view, and explore high-resolution images with your team. Even without a login.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Small update to #tinyIIIF, my no-nonsense #IIIF server! You can now choose your image server during setup: • IIPImage • Cantaloupe Running small- to mid-sized collections? Teaching with IIIF materials? Building IIIF-enabled tools? Check out tiny.iiif! github.com/rsimon/tiny-... #DigitalFriday

Decorative images with a screenshot of tiny.iiif in the background, and image server choices (as text labels) in the foreground: IIPImage, Cantaloupe.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Thanks for the shoutout :-) As it happens – my next post is almost on the way!

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Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

For the US #DigitalHumanities crowd: how does one go about looking for DH/DH-adjacent jobs? I live and work in Germany and know all the job boards and mailing lists to subscribe to here. But what about for the US scene? Specifically the Pacific North-West? Appreciate whatever help you can offer. 🙏

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

And now? It's up to you! Clone the repo. Deploy your instance. Start annotating. Most importantly: tell us how it goes. If something breaks, open a GitHub issue. If something feels unclear, confusing, slow — we want to know. Your feedback shapes where liiive goes next. github.com/rsimon/liiive

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GitHub - rsimon/liiive: A tool for real-time collaborative IIIF image annotation.

A tool for real-time collaborative IIIF image annotation. - rsimon/liiive

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It's done! 🚀 The first formal open source release of liiive is out — my real-time collaborative #IIIF annotation environment. As of today: fully self-hostable. A big thank you to the University of Graz Department of Digital Humanities and the DHInfra.at initiative who's support made this possible.

The liiive annotation interface: image control bar on the top left (sharing, zoom, image rotation); drawing tool bar on the top right (move, rectangle, triangle, circle, trash, undo/redo), navigation bar at the bottom. Colored cursors and annotation shapes above a medieval manuscript page.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Yay! The first image served from my new #tinyIIIF test instance. I'm running it on a 2 CPU/4GB RAM VM. Seems to be the absolute minimum & performance is pretty slow. If anyone has advice on which specs I'd need to get more #IIIF speed out of Cantaloupe – let me know!

The Waldseemüller map in liiive (a IIIF annotation tool).

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Hint to those who want to use Vatican Lib resources in other viewers like #Mirador, #Theseus, or #IIIF tools like immarkus.xmarkus.org, liiive.now: I always found the IIIF link a bit well-hidden on the Vatican site. It's the tiny "i" icon top-left (next to "Read more"), then ↓, "IIIF manifest URI".

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Planning for a postdoc in Classics using digital methods but don't know where to start? Join our training workshop in Durham! Small bursaries are available, but applications are due soon! #DigitalHumanities #digitalclassics digitalhumanities.webspace.durham.ac.uk/events/

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