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Anna Michalcová

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linguist ✨ philologist ✨ medievalist ✨ digital humanist Czech Language Institute CAS / Institute for Medieval Research ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s a really interesting discussion! Speaking of HTR, if anyone is curious about learning the tools, we run a Winter School! It would be amazing to explore Old Irish manuscripts there in the future. 😊 indico.global/event/18567/...
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Winter School: HTR of Historical Sources, 2026
The use of AI for reading historical sources (known as Automated or Handwritten Text Recognition) is becoming an expected and necessary part of many DH projects. Nevertheless, there are still many cha...
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AI isn't going "rogue" because it can't—and we won't get a grip on how companies like OpenAI are playing with fire until we have the language right
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There are no “rogue” AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t mean this as a criticism of this piece, but this was obvious from the start. If you don’t know anything, AI is a substitute, not a tool. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Has Made Me a Better Doctor. It’s Made Med Students Worse.
I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nice to see the Winter School of HTR mentioned as one of the highlights of TUC26 and the Transkribus community in general! Super proud to be part of it since the very beginning! @digilab-imafo.bsky.social @transkribus.bsky.social (also if someone has a better photo, do let me know 💙)
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Last HTR conference of the month #TUC2026. Happy conferencing! 💙
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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Join us next week at #TUC26! @catominor.bsky.social and @burnedlegate.bsky.social will share their experiences from 4 years of training researchers at the Vienna Winter School for HTR. Catch their lightning talk in the Teaching Machines, Teaching Humans panel!
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ANTIDOTE - Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts @antidote-network.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📢 Applications are now open for the 3rd Year of the #ANTIDOTE training programme! Learn to model digital editions in Klosterneuburg 🇦🇹 and Prague 🇨🇿 Application deadline: 7 October antidote.hi.is/apply
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Apply Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts —ANTIDOTE 2026–2027The University of Iceland (Reykjavík), Charles University (Prague), Klosterneuburg Abbey Library (Klosterneuburg, Austria), Co...
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Next week we'll speak about our Winter School of HTR in Passau 💫
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is, of course, a whole new discovery for me, because I mostly work with Bibles and religious literature 😅😱
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This hasn't happened to me in a while, but I got into reading the Old Czech translation/adaptation of the Trojan Chronicle because of one dictionary entry I am working on, and it's actually quite a good read! Maybe sometimes you can read a manuscript and actually have fun with the content 😅
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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We extended the application deadline for Winter School: HTR of Historical Sources to 15th September 2026. This year, all sessions will be virtual, and we have added several new languages! Check out our Indico website in the comments.
Cream-coloured promotional banner titled "Winter School: HTR of Historical Sources 2026", with "2026" in large red type. Three text blocks list the working groups — Carolingian Latin, Late Medieval Latin, Early Modern German, Byzantine Greek, Syriac, Church Slavonic and Old Icelandic — the venue and schedule (2 October to 27 November 2026, virtual sessions from 2pm to 5pm), and the application deadline of 15 September 2026. At the right, a red-and-black line drawing shows a haloed medieval scribe in a red cap reading an open book, with a bird perched on his shoulder.
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Another week, another HTR conference! September sure is full of them 💪
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Today we presented our poster on ICDAR in Vienna! Next week, SCOOP awaits 🫢
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 02/09/2026
Underrated god-tier advice
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I have successfully installed myself in Vienna ✨
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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
2nd Exchange Meeting of SCOOP - ATR Network is quickly approaching! If you want to attend, you can still register. The keynotes will be also streamed via Zoom. #atr #htr bsky.app/profile/digi...
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Last but not least, this will be a big thing which we've been organising and preparing for over a year, with about 100 people incoming and talking about their HTR related research. Including me 🐸
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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As every year, we are organizing Winter School: HTR of Historical Sources! This time it is virtual (5 afternoons in November/October), with 7 language/script groups (2x Latin, Greek, Syriac, Church Slavonic, Icelandic, German). Call for applications: indico.global/e/htr-2026 . #htr #atr
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Summer is ending soon, and September will be super busy. ICDAR first - Jan Odstrčilík and I will be presenting in the poster session on Friday, September 4, in the Computational Paleography Workshop ✨ Program here: www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/iwcp2026/pro...
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I turned 30 yesterday! This year has been a whirlwind so far. So much changed, and will keep changing depending on which postdoc position works out... The year I fell in love, finished my PhD, and will move out of Prague after 10 years. Crazy!! But I've never been happier ❤️
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Having a nice one with Czech summer 🌞
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I've officially ended my studies of the medieval manuscripts in Brno MZA for our colophone project 🥲. We had some nice time, Brno. You might grow on me yet
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I remember there being a Compare function in the Transkribus web app. Now with the new design, I can't find it anywhere. Is it a bug or a feature? Or am I just blind?
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I am planning on writing an article on history of Czech philology (focused on editorial processing of medieval Czech texts) and Václav Hanka plays such a big role in it. They don't make philologists like him anymore. Was he a little bit crazy? Maybe, but we're still talking about him, right?
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Also notice how cute it is that Hanka is copying the format of a medieval colophon. What a gem ✨
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Autograph of Václav Hanka!!!!!! Unbelievable. I'm crying (BRNO MZA G10, Inv. n. 510, fol. 198v)
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You could not in your wildest dreams come up with a better metaphor than Harry Potter fans forcing the desecration of real remains to spare fictional ones
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Obsidian writing gets me all
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Todd Howard: It Just Works
ALT: Todd Howard: It Just Works
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I am quite enjoying playing Awoved (somewhat 10 hours in). I miss playing good RPGs in general, it's so rare these days. A shame the sequel got cancelled 🥲
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Also Gemini struggled quite a lot with automated transcription of this (I tried comparing my transcription to the one Gemini did, that was a bad idea). It shows that LLMs/VLMs still don't know how to handle under-resourced languages 🙃
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
5/? how houses (?) were destroyed and the corn in the field was blown up by large oak trees, and the oak trees and other trees lay like hemp. And this happened that summer and I, Bartoš, looked at the miracle that happened in that region, I was then XXXVI (36) years old, I wrote it down for memory.
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
4/? - English translation Since the birth of the son of God in the year 1493, a divine plague has occurred, which has not been heard for many ages. Dear Lord, please preserve us sinners from that time. Dear creator of the world, this happened around Jičín and beyond Jičín in that region (...)
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
3/? A to se jest stalo toho léta a já, Bartoš, hleděl sem na ten div, který se jest stal v tej krajině, bylo mi jest tehdy XXXVI (36) let, pro pamět to sem sepsal.
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
2/? (This part admittely might have some mistakes. I don't get exactly what happened.) Milý stvořiteli světa, to se jest dálo okolo Jičína a za Jičínem v tej krajině, kterak jest domy (?) bořilo a obilé na poli dubie veliké vykrúhalo, a to dubie a jiná dřievie ležala co konopie.
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My transcription (this man had a horrible handwriting, so this is very rough, 1/?): Od narozenie syna božieho tisícého štirstého LXXXX°III° (1493) stala se jest božie rána od boha, která neíi slýchána od mnoha časóv. Milý hospodine, rač nás hřiešné od toho času zachovati.
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In the end, sometimes that's all that's left of you. Makes me really think about writing everything down digitally. Maybe it's better to leave some paper behind you as well - it sticks and sometimes some curious people find it...
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is actually in a manuscript written by scribe in 1471, it has some biblical stories, a dream book, something about astrology. Then there is a story of a man who lived near Jičín, had three sons and wrote in the margins of this manuscript about his life. ❤️ (BRNO MZA, Inv. n. 412, fol. 318v)
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Dneska po cestě domů z práce kolem mě projel Filip Turek a přežila jsem to. To už přežiji vše! (Nepustil mě na přechodu.)
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Ooh, that could might as well be 👀 I'll try to send something interesting!
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My transcriptions: (1) Toto sou knihy páně Bočkovy, dary (?) sou do kostela svatého Matěje (?). / These are books of Lord Boček, donations (?) to the Church of St. Matthew (?). (2) Knihy tyto jsú páně Bočkovy. Byly jsú. Už nejsú. / These books are of Lord Boček. They were. They are no longer.
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Oh, this is a sad continuation of the story. (Bible of Bočkov, 2nd half of the 15th century, Brno MZA, inv. n. 123/2, fol. 352v)
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A little paleography exercise. Would you manage to read this? 😅 (Bible of Bočkov, 2nd half of the 15th century, Brno MZA, inv. n. 123/1, fol. 347v)
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
There is a story to every manuscript - it's not just a text. This is an Old Czech Bible currently kept in Brno, dated to the end of the 15th century. But who was Elena and what was she doing in Berlin? How did she get her hands on this? 👀 (Lobkowicz Bible, 1479/1480, Brno MZA, inv. n. 122, fol. 92r)
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Or just scroll here to find out. Me and Jan Odstrčilík will be presenting our evergreen problem on methodology of preparding Ground Truth transcriptions for AI training.
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I will be presenting at this year's ICDAR in Vienna ✨👀 Check the programme of the 4th international Workshop on Computational Paleography workshop and see if you can find me there! www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/iwcp2026/pro...
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Apolena. Unfortunately, closed 🔒 Nevertheless, I am happy I went 💪
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And of course, the castle of Trosky itself! Or what remained of it. Today we plan on going to Apolena, and with that we will be finished with all locations from the game I wanted to see 😉
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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Nebakov mill, the outskirts of Semín, the pond Vidlák. And a lost ham. There is a story here
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