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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Postdoc (18 months) at Inria Paris! Let's go back together to the manuscripts behind Dees' Atlas of Old French, with CATMuS & CoMMA, and measure how editors shaped our dialect maps. Skills: Old French, palaeography, TEI. Latin a +. Deadline 30/11 recrutement.inria.fr/public/class... #digimed #DH

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Post-Doctoral Research Visit F/M Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval French Philology in the ROMAM2 Project

Offre d'emploi Inria

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

2nd Exchange Meeting of SCOOP: International Network for Automated Text Recognition of Historical Sources starts on Monday. Keynotes by Thibault Clérice, Anna Dolganov and David Smith will be streamed via Zoom. Check the website for the links.

Title slide for the 2nd Exchange Meeting of SCOOP (International Network for Automated Text Recognition of Historical Sources), Vienna, September 7–9, 2026. Presentation title: "The Transcription/Edition Distinction as a Foundation for Trustworthy Automatic Text Recognition" by Thibault Clérice, ALMAnaCH, Inria. Link: https://scoop-network.org.

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#eScriptorium 26.07 is out since yesterday, and our maintainer just posted the blog post about it : escriptorium.eu/blog/2026-09... And there is something we (the eScriptorium Steering Committee) wanted to talk to you about.

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July 2026 Release

The 26.07 release brings document-scoped ontologies, a new Overview panel for regions and lines, an Ontology Overview page for quality control, custom transcription fonts, full document archives and a...

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Alix Chagué 🌈 @alix-tz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What a joy it was today to defend my PhD in front of a jury of colleagues genuinely interested and stimulated by my work! Thank you very much to D. Stutzmann, E. Pierazzo and M. Gohier, for our exchanges today, but also to L. Romary, E. Château-Dutier and M. Sinatra for their guidance! 🙏😁🧑‍🎓

Alix Chagué (right) standing, with Michael Sinatra, Marcello Vitali Rosati and Emmanuel Château-Dutier (left), in front a big TV screen (center) displaying a Zoom conference spotlighting Dominique Stutzmann, Maxime Gohier, Elena Pierazzo and Laurent Romary. Everyone is smiling, celebrating the end of the defense.

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Joh Peccadille @peccadille.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Bouteille à la mer : je cherche désespérément cet article de Frédéric Barbier, paru dans un livre introuvable en France. L'article est dispo en PDF, mais à 13 euros (alors que le livre en vaut 20..) www.torrossa.com/fr/resources...

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Histoire d'un livre : le Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce, par le comte de Choiseul-Gouffier (1782-1822) - Barbier, Frédéric - CLUEB - Torrossa

meta_description_detail Histoire d'un livre, Barbier, Frédéric - CLUEB - Chapitre

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

1/3 Thanks to @atrium-eu.bsky.social we are happy to unveil the new HTR United htr-united.github.io ! - New internationalization system - New browsing interface for the corpora - New form to register your corpus and help you build metrics ( htr-united.github.io/document-you... )

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Cato Minor @catominor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Our book on Automated/Handwritten Text Recognition is out and it is open access :). bielefelduniversitypress.de/publikatione... #htr #atr #digitalhumanities

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Rachel Bawden @rachelbawden.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🎓 Interested in a PhD at Inria Paris on task-specific, linguistically motivated evaluation in NLP? We are currently inviting applications through the PRAIRIE-PSAI PhD call. The deadline to apply (via the Inria jobs website: link given below) is 17th May 2026. jobs.inria.fr/public/class...

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PhD Position F/M Task-Specific and Linguistically Motivated Evaluation for Multilingual NLP

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Turning a new page with eScriptorium... and we wanted to talk about it with you. In a blog written with Mathew Barber, we went into explaining what 1.0 is, represents for our team, and how we are trying to improve our transparency, how "our team" work. escriptorium.eu/blog/2026-04...

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A New Chapter for eScriptorium

In the next few months you will likely be seeing a new version of eScriptorium come to your instance. If you’re using INRIA, you may have already seen the changes. This year has brought a new mileston...

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 27/03/2026

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

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David Smith @dasmiq.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Paris friends! Amis parisiens ! This Thursday is the first of four public lectures I'm giving on AI and philology, broadly defined: "Philological Reasoning and Computational Models." The advertisement is in French, but the lectures are in English. I'd also love to meet while I'm here in March! 1/

Poster advertising lectures on "Raisonnement Philologique et Modèles Informatiques" stating at 4pm, Thursday, March 12, at 54 Boulevard Raspail, Paris.

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This week saw the release of eScriptorium 1.0.0, the end of years of work and a last run done by H, Aguili at @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social The new UI is much better, you can discover it at youtu.be/WEf42RlweZA

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Bienvenue sur eScriptorium 1.0

YouTube video by Thibault Clérice

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Alayne Moody @menyalas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The deadline for submissions to the upcoming Digital Humanities Summer Institute aligned conference in Montreal is this Friday, January, 30, 2026. La date limite pour soumettre des propositions au colloque parallèle du Digital Humanities Summer Institute est fixée à ce vendredi 30 janvier 2026.

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Conference

DHSI 2026 Conference will take place during both weeks of DHSI (Week 1: June 8–12; Week 2: June 15–19). All DHSI participants are welcome to attend the conference. You can find the call for proposals ...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

'“We received a total of 32,763 manuscripts, mostly in Old French and Latin, which we transcribed in four months”, explains Thibault Clérice - infinitely quicker than it would have taken to complete such a task manually.'

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CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed

Transcribing thousands of medieval manuscripts by hand would be a monumental undertaking. Fortunately, researchers in computational humanities at the Inria Paris Centre have been able to automate the ...

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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 09/12/2025

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

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How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it

I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Want to keep up with everything happening around #CHR2025 on Bluesky? Follow the feed we created to catch all related posts in one place: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 08/12/2025

I am very happy to not be repeating the AI class I did in fall 2023, but this is the first piece of AI-themed writing that made me laugh so hard I almost wish I could put it on the syllabus.

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Alix Chagué 🌈 @alix-tz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

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/

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025 - A Perfect Job is the New Very Good Job

A little disclaimer for once, because I usually prefer to praise if I name people. I do not know Dan Cohen nor his work, my criticism of his article is not directed against him personally, but rather

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William J.B. Mattingly @wjbmattingly.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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.

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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/🧵)

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CoMMA

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William J.B. Mattingly @wjbmattingly.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

🚨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.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 17/09/2025

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.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Alíz Horváth @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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

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William J.B. Mattingly @wjbmattingly.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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...

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Alix Chagué 🌈 @alix-tz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

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! 🦌🌳

Photo of the nature surrounding the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton

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Kelly Christensen @katkel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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...

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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?...

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Death By Numbers: Morality Records & Plague in Britain

YouTube video by Omohundro Institute

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DH Awards @dhawards.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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.

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DH Awards 2024 Results | Digital Humanities Awards

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

#digiclass If you have #Epidoc inscriptions / papyri, I would love to have a test run with this...

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Alix Chagué 🌈 @alix-tz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

#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

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Digital Humanities Summer Institute

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Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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 !

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Mike Kestemont @mikekestemont.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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.

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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 ?

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Inria Paris NLP (ALMAnaCH team) @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🦋 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!

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James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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.

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2025 Call for Chapter Submissions: Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit to a collection of essays tentatively entitled Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition, to be edited by Melissa Terras, Paul Goodi…

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🚨 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

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Data Librarian pour les corpus de Grec Ancien

Offre d'emploi Inria

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Noa Håkansson @noahakansson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

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!

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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...

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Data Librarian pour les corpus de Grec Ancien

Offre d'emploi Inria

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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...

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Ingénieur pour l'OCR et la structuration de documents imprimés

Offre d'emploi Inria

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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

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Alix Chagué 🌈 @alix-tz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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.

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Alix Chagué 🌈 @alix-tz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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...

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La transcription automatique de manuscrits - Alix Chagué

Les pratiques de science ouverte dans la transcription automatique de manuscrits

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Teddy Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

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

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