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
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...
Vote early, vote once, ask your friends and neighbours to vote.
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.)
🗞️ 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
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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If you rely on open source and need something specific, consider backing it–this is how projects stay alive. Just sayin’ 😉
Small update to #Annotorious, my #JavaScript image annotation library: You can now rotate rectangle shapes! #OpenSeadragon #IIIF #ImageAnnotation #TypeScript #React
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
👀 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.
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.
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
📢 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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
Also CC'ing @bertspaan.nl and @kmcdono.bsky.social! (See messages above ↑)
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?
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).
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...
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) […]
🚨 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 […]
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...
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!)
🖼️ #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...
Big thanks to @atomotic.com for figuring out the IIPImage setup! 🙏
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? :)
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