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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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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 - ANTIDOTE

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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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📜Call for Papers - Digital Practices and Medieval Data IMC 2027, 5-8 July 2027 Digital Medievalist invites proposals for IMC 2027 in Leeds at the intersection of digital and medieval studies, from digital editing to machine learning. ⏰ Deadline: 20 Sept. 2026 ➡️ Full call: tinyurl.com/y8hhzusf

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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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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Join us online for SCOOP's second keynote today at 17:15 (UTC+2). Anna Dolganov and David Smith will present on generative AI in their talk: "New Epistemic Frontiers: LLMs for Linking Transcription, Editing, and Interpretation. Details in the comment.

Title slide for the 2nd Exchange Meeting of SCOOP: International Network for Automated Text Recognition of Historical Sources, held in Vienna, September 7–9, 2026. The presentation title reads "New Epistemic Frontiers: LLMs for Linking Transcription, Editing, and Interpretation" by Anna Dolganov & David Smith, Austrian Academy of Sciences & Northeastern University, with the link https://scoop-network.org.

Photo of a large tiered lecture hall with gold-paneled walls and ceiling, filled with conference attendees seated at rows of grey desks, many with laptops open, listening attentively during a SCOOP network session; one attendee near the front is a remote participant represented by a tablet showing a question mark instead of a face.

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We just started! 🥳 Join us online for Thibault Clérice’s keynote. oeaw-ac-at.zoom.us/j/6591500061...

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Transkribus @transkribus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

History goes far beyond the Latin alphabet. 📜 Explore five Transkribus models for Ethiopic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Balinese and Ottoman Turkish, and the historical collections behind them: blog.transkribus.org/en/ethiopic-...

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Ethiopic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Balinese and Ottoman Turkish: 5 public AI models for transcribing non-Latin scripts - READ-COOP

Read the Post Ethiopic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Balinese and Ottoman Turkish: 5 public AI models for transcribing non-Latin scripts in our Blog.

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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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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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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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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Are you interested in Automated/Handwritten Text Recognition of historical sources? This September 7-9, we are organizing the 2nd Exchange Meeting of SCOOP (Sources Codes of the Past) in Vienna, bringing together researchers and developers. More information: www.scoop-network.org#programme #htr #atr

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SCOOP: Source Codes of the Past

A conference and exchange network for the international community working on Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR). Vienna, 7-9 September 2026.

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DARIAH-EU @dariaheu.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

📣 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-...

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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-...

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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

A snapshot from the interview: Prof. David Michelson [left] and Dr. Ephrem A. Ishac [right] at Café Exchange, located inside the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

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Dr Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir @vanlinduist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

📢 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

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Martin Roček @martin.rocek.dev · 25/03/2026

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

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Martin Roček @martin.rocek.dev · 23/03/2026

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

A screenshot of a web application called "MANU". The dashboard displays a user's manuscript collection. There are tabs for "All", "Owned", "Shared with me", and "Public". Below, there are two sections: "Your manuscripts" with a button to "+ Add IIIF manifest" and several cards representing different manuscripts like "ARME DI CARDINALI...", "SOMNIALE DANIELIS...", and "ST AUGUSTINE, HOMILIES". A second section, "Shared with me", shows cards for "BIP - GROUP 2" and "SBÍRKA SPISŮ LÉKAŘSKÝCH...". A blue "+ Add IIIF Manifest" button is prominent in the top right.

A screenshot of the "MANU" application showing the "Export" settings for a specific manuscript titled "ARME DI CARDINALI, ARCIVESCOVI E VESCOVI FIORENTINI". A sidebar menu on the left highlights "Export". The main area provides options to download the "Original IIIF manifest", download a "IIIF manifest with annotations", and view/copy the "Source URL".

A screenshot of the "MANU" application's document viewer. The central area displays a digitized page of a manuscript featuring an ornate coat of arms above a block of handwritten text. On the left is a toolbar with various annotation and viewing tools. On the right, a text editor panel is open with formatting options and a "Save" button, indicating the user can add or edit annotations for the manuscript page. The editor currently has the language set to English.

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Martin Roček @martin.rocek.dev · 18/03/2026

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

translucens.humanities.tools

Translucens — Bleed-through Removal for Manuscript Scans

Translucens removes ink bleed-through and show-through from medieval manuscript folio scans using custom image processing pipeline.

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

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.

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AI x Journalism: Transforming the News — Journalism

Join the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) for this special event on how artificial intelligence is changing journalism and n...

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William J.B. Mattingly @wjbmattingly.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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...

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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...

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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

oeaw.ac.at

From Physical Object to Structured Data

Building AI Pipelines in Cultural Heritage | 3rd Lecture of the KImafo Series

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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...

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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

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ScribbleSense and Trends in Handwriting Recognition

Online Digital IMAFO Lecture | by Michal Hradiš

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

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

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Martin Roček @martin.rocek.dev · 20/12/2025

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. 😊

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

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

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Anna Michalcová @burnedlegate.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

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

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DigiLab, Institute for Medieval Research, ÖAW @digilab-imafo.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

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

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