While I’m building my home in Warcraft, behind me @vanlinduist.bsky.social conquered the whole world. 😬

Thursday, 9 April 16:30
Edda Auditorium

Miðaldastofa Háskóla Íslands — The University of Iceland Centre for Medieval Studies

Ondřej Tichý, Charles University
"Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online: The Story of a Dictionary and its Digitization"

midaldastofa.hi.is

⚠️ CANCELLED 🟠🌬

Alas, the weather had other plans. Due to the orange weather alert, we are postponing tomorrow's talk.

We will share the new date and post updates soon.

Stay safe and warm!

It is slowly coming together! "Beta" hopefully next week. 😊

#IIIF #DigitalHumanities

Great talk by @vanlinduist.bsky.social on data visualisation in DH in Prague!

Iceland today. Yeah, I don’t know, maybe it’s really not a good time to do gardening. You might lose some dwarves out there.

Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from... A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHu...

🚨 Active supply chain attack on axios@1.14.1. The latest version pulls in plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 -- a brand-new package that didn't exist before today.

We're still investigating. If you use axios, pin your version and audit your lockfile. socket.dev/blog/axios-n...

I wish I could! But it just doesn’t look right. Too square, too dense. I want to write a suggestion on your forums when I finally find some time (because current customisation options are broad but not where I would want). 🙂

Quite confusing that verification of the domain on @leaflet.pub takes more than a day. 😩 Or have I done something wrong? 🧐

Vibe-Coding in (Digital) Humanities

Many DH scholars (and others) around me are praising LLMs for democratisation of coding and easy use. I totally get that, it's fascinating. What I miss in the discussion are the ethical issues and long-term maintainability (which was a problem before LLMs too).

Budu průběžně postovat. 🙂 Jop, s Lucií spolupracujeme na několika projektech. Určitě, MANU Vám rádi představíme.

Děkuju! Samotného mě to překvapilo. 🙂 It’s a tool I’m developing. We already used it for a few workshops and exhibitions in Prague, and the transcription is just sent via a free API to Gemini (just now, for testing).

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

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.

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

Does anyone have a suggestion for an iOS RSS reader? I was using Lire, but the last few months it always crashes on start and it became slightly annoying.

Finally found some time to dust off my Behance page. A few recent pieces of what I do when I don't do programming - Bloom and Decay.

Full project on Behance: www.behance.net/gallery/2462...

Latest... more like long-running 😅

A list view of the "MANU" dashboard, similar to the previous image but displaying the manuscripts in a tabular format instead of a grid. The sections remain the same ("Your manuscripts", "Shared with me", "Public manuscripts"). Each row in the table represents a manuscript and includes columns for "TITLE", "OWNER", and "ACTIONS". The "ACTIONS" column contains icons for viewing, editing, and sharing the manuscript. The titles and descriptions match those seen in the grid view.

A dashboard view of a web application named "MANU" in a light theme. The top navigation bar includes tabs for "All", "Owned", "Shared with me", and "Public", along with user profile settings and an "Add IIIF Manifest" button. The main content area is divided into sections: "Your manuscripts", "Shared with me", and "Public manuscripts". The "Your manuscripts" section displays a grid of cards, each representing a manuscript with a title, a short description, and an icon. Some titles include "KOLOFONY", "SOMNIALE DANIELIS", and variations thereof. The cards are arranged in a multi-column layout.

A digital interface showing a modal window titled "OPEN IIIF MANIFEST". The window displays the metadata of a manuscript, including its title ("Doctrinale puerorum cum commentariis Ludovici d"), shelfmark ("Cod. 24."), and a detailed Latin description. On the right side of the modal, there is a grid of thumbnail images showing the pages of the manuscript, which appear to have illuminated initials and gothic script. Below the images, there is a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC 4.0) and buttons for "Back" and "Open manifest". The background shows a blurred view of a web application called "MANU".

I’m slowly bringing my latest project out of private mode! The dashboard now offers two modes: cards and rows. The preview I showed a few months ago has been slightly updated and most importantly user and group permissions have been introduced. 😮‍💨

#IIIF #DigitalHumanities

A meme image of chef Nusret Gökçe, known as "Salt Bae," wearing a white t-shirt and round sunglasses. He is flamboyantly sprinkling salt from his fingertips, letting it bounce off his forearm. Bold white text at the top reads "AH YES" and at the bottom reads "LETS ADD A BIT MORE INSANITY"

Thank you for the repo! Here are the results - for both images, though I'm not sure if the photo is actually better. Let me know what you think. :)

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Might be better with a full-size image; the seventh row from the bottom in the middle seems to be damaged beyond repair. Also, the burning around the hole seems to be way too close to the actual ink on the folio (the last image).

While the automated alignment does most of the time a good job, it’s not perfect. So I thought, why not allow you to tweak the alignment'?

P.S. No 3D goggles are required, though it can be fun.

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.

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

Thank you, it was developed by me and it will eventually be published online - its use of a combination of algorithms to match the colours/contrast or shapes. Some leverage the existing features in OpenCV, others are made from scratch.

We were sitting with @vanlinduist.bsky.social at breakfast, discussing hard-to-read manuscripts, then I realised that I once saw a presentation by Eyal Poleg where he was able to recover layers from pure JPEG... who am I not to try this? It needs a lot of tweaking, but I'd say good progress?

Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir (@vanlinduist.bsky.social), Alice Heeley and Martin Roček (@martin.rocek.dev)
Mind the Gap: Where HTR Models Excel and Fail in Old Icelandic Transcriptions
📍 Árnagarður 303 📅 March 14, 13:00

hugvis.hi.is/is/velraenn-textalestur-stada-og-horfur-fyrir-islensku

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...

Lunch with Digital Humanities - MSHL The Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts in Iceland is pleased to announce the second iteration of its lecture series, this time bearing the title Lunch with Digital Humanities. When:  Tuesdays, 12:...

✨ Our lecture series continues this spring ✨
Join us for Lunch with Digital Humanities

We invite researchers, artists & practitioners to share their work on digital culture, media, archives & more!

Schedule at mshl.is/vidburdir/lunch-with-dh/

🗓 Tuesdays, 12 GMT
📺 Live at tinyurl.com/4su9evxf

Definitely not obsolete! 😅 There are many projects and opinions. Level of use of digital methods varies a lot across Europe.

People in DH often forget what is important for humanities, how to communicate benefits and disadvantages, and (in my perspective) most importantly usability & design (UX).

📢 Call for Book Chapters for our Book Series Old Norse Studies

Networks in Old Norse Literature: Methods, Models, and New Directions, edited by @liamh2os.bsky.social and Erika Dell’Aquila

Abstracts (300–400 words) due 1 May 2026
Full papers due 1 December

More here: shorturl.at/wbnEe