Cato Minor
@catominor.bsky.social
Hic / Ille. A weird mixture of interests from medieval Latin, to digital humanities and note-taking apps.
And the award for the best design and user experience in the button department of public transport comes to the trinity of buttons in Prague trams. A fun fact: if you want to get out of the tram with a baby carriage, you have to press the small black button twice.
November 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
And the award for the best design and user experience in the button department of public transport comes to the trinity of buttons in Prague trams. A fun fact: if you want to get out of the tram with a baby carriage, you have to press the small black button twice.
@leaflet.pub Is there a possibility how to move an existing leaflet doc to a publication? :)
October 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
@leaflet.pub Is there a possibility how to move an existing leaflet doc to a publication? :)
Is there some easy to use local LLM for translating PDFs/documents? Ideally for Mac? :)
October 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Is there some easy to use local LLM for translating PDFs/documents? Ideally for Mac? :)
To assimilate or not to assimilate – that is a late medieval palaeographical question!
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
To assimilate or not to assimilate – that is a late medieval palaeographical question!
I went through the terms and conditions of #transkribus to make my previous post more substantiated and clearer. #atr #htr
October 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I went through the terms and conditions of #transkribus to make my previous post more substantiated and clearer. #atr #htr
September 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
You can still apply for the Winter School: Handwritten Text Recognition of Historical Sources :). Deadline: 15th September. www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/verans...
HTR Winter School 2025 | Call for Applications!
Handwritten Text Recognition of Historical Sources
www.oeaw.ac.at
September 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
You can still apply for the Winter School: Handwritten Text Recognition of Historical Sources :). Deadline: 15th September. www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/verans...
Me at IMC Leeds. #digitalhumanities #middleages
July 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Me at IMC Leeds. #digitalhumanities #middleages
I wonder how accurrate these replies about HTR technology are. To be honest, I find LLMs quite useful for explaining this type of information but - of course - it is difficult for me to verify.
July 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I wonder how accurrate these replies about HTR technology are. To be honest, I find LLMs quite useful for explaining this type of information but - of course - it is difficult for me to verify.
I have to start a conspiration theory that #imcleeds has purposefully bad coffee at the conference, so you buy coffee from coffee shops on the campus.
July 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I have to start a conspiration theory that #imcleeds has purposefully bad coffee at the conference, so you buy coffee from coffee shops on the campus.
I was too quick with my hopes. Eurostart train broke down. Delay... at least two hours? But who knows. Last announcement was in French and Flemish... Anybody else travelling to IMC Leeds stranded in Brussels? :D
July 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I was too quick with my hopes. Eurostart train broke down. Delay... at least two hours? But who knows. Last announcement was in French and Flemish... Anybody else travelling to IMC Leeds stranded in Brussels? :D
Travelling by train from Vienna to IMC Leeds is always an adventure — this time with three train changes! 😲
So far, the journey is going well (I'm currently traveling from Amsterdam to Paris).
So far, the journey is going well (I'm currently traveling from Amsterdam to Paris).
July 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Travelling by train from Vienna to IMC Leeds is always an adventure — this time with three train changes! 😲
So far, the journey is going well (I'm currently traveling from Amsterdam to Paris).
So far, the journey is going well (I'm currently traveling from Amsterdam to Paris).
Considering switching from Dropbox to something else (privacy reasons) and I found out about pCloud. Do you have experience with it? :)
June 23, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Considering switching from Dropbox to something else (privacy reasons) and I found out about pCloud. Do you have experience with it? :)
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On the afternoon of Saturday 14 June I'll be speaking about the amazing treasure trove that is the Latin literature of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at London's Skaryna Library. You can book a place over on fb: www.facebook.com/events/17707...
June 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
On the afternoon of Saturday 14 June I'll be speaking about the amazing treasure trove that is the Latin literature of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at London's Skaryna Library. You can book a place over on fb: www.facebook.com/events/17707...
Today I learned that in 1984, they were preparing a digital edition of a text by typing it on a typewriter with an OCR-R font and then scanning it. (Hans Fix: Production and usage of a machine-readable manuscript).
May 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Today I learned that in 1984, they were preparing a digital edition of a text by typing it on a typewriter with an OCR-R font and then scanning it. (Hans Fix: Production and usage of a machine-readable manuscript).
Interested in hearing about a new alternative to Transkribus and eScriptorium? This Wednesday, from 15:00 to 16:30, there will be a virtual presentation of Calfa Vision by Baptiste Queuche, organized by IMAFO, Austrian Academy of Sciences.See the details: www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/verans... #htr #atr #dh
Text recognition for non-western languages in manuscripts: presentation of Calfa
Online Lecture on DIGITAL HUMANITIES at IMAFO-HI | by Baptiste Queuche
www.oeaw.ac.at
May 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Interested in hearing about a new alternative to Transkribus and eScriptorium? This Wednesday, from 15:00 to 16:30, there will be a virtual presentation of Calfa Vision by Baptiste Queuche, organized by IMAFO, Austrian Academy of Sciences.See the details: www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/verans... #htr #atr #dh
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Ok, it’s time to settle this
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May 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Ok, it’s time to settle this
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The #ANTIDOTE expert workshop on 'Scale and Scalability' is now underway at @tcddublin.bsky.social.
This week, we cover data scraping & wrangling, OCR & HTR, corpus linguistics & visualisation techniques for historical texts and manuscripts.
antidote.hi.is
#DH #medievalsky
This week, we cover data scraping & wrangling, OCR & HTR, corpus linguistics & visualisation techniques for historical texts and manuscripts.
antidote.hi.is
#DH #medievalsky
May 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The #ANTIDOTE expert workshop on 'Scale and Scalability' is now underway at @tcddublin.bsky.social.
This week, we cover data scraping & wrangling, OCR & HTR, corpus linguistics & visualisation techniques for historical texts and manuscripts.
antidote.hi.is
#DH #medievalsky
This week, we cover data scraping & wrangling, OCR & HTR, corpus linguistics & visualisation techniques for historical texts and manuscripts.
antidote.hi.is
#DH #medievalsky
My fascination with this inscription in Prague will never cease. I refuse to Google why the image looks so strange. :) I don’t want to shatter the magic.
May 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My fascination with this inscription in Prague will never cease. I refuse to Google why the image looks so strange. :) I don’t want to shatter the magic.
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Starting now!
On May 14, the team from Artemis (Advanced Research Tools for Environmental Studies for historical maps of the Scheldt Valley), will present their work, which leverages IIIF, Allmaps, Madoc, and Linked Open Data to enable historical and ecological research.
Zoom link: iiif.io/community
Zoom link: iiif.io/community
May 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Starting now!
Still possible to register for a virtual lecture by Marcus Pöckelmann on the LERA collation tool. :) Registration instructions are available on the website: www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/verans... . #dh #digitalhumanities
www.oeaw.ac.at
May 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Still possible to register for a virtual lecture by Marcus Pöckelmann on the LERA collation tool. :) Registration instructions are available on the website: www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/verans... . #dh #digitalhumanities
Join us next Wednesday for a virtual lecture by Marcus Pöckelmann on the LERA collation tool. Registration instructions are available on the website. www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/verans... #dh #digitalhumanities
LERA – An interactive platform for the collation of multiple text witnesses
Next Lecture on DIGITAL HUMANITIES at IMAFO-HI
www.oeaw.ac.at
May 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Join us next Wednesday for a virtual lecture by Marcus Pöckelmann on the LERA collation tool. Registration instructions are available on the website. www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/verans... #dh #digitalhumanities
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Are Early Medieval Books your thing? We have a summer school course for you!👇 #Skystorians #MedievalSky
ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...
ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...
Introduction to Insular Script and the Palaeography of the Old English Period
ies.sas.ac.uk
May 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Are Early Medieval Books your thing? We have a summer school course for you!👇 #Skystorians #MedievalSky
ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...
ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...
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Hi All. #PKMWeekly (May the 4th be with you) is live
@obsidian.md make .md plugin and Obsidian from an engineer's point of view
#logseq DB updates (no desktop app yet) and LLM
@tana.inc App and AI updates and 7 ninja tricks
@wcools.bsky.social #Thymer split view
👇
@obsidian.md make .md plugin and Obsidian from an engineer's point of view
#logseq DB updates (no desktop app yet) and LLM
@tana.inc App and AI updates and 7 ninja tricks
@wcools.bsky.social #Thymer split view
👇
May 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Hi All. #PKMWeekly (May the 4th be with you) is live
@obsidian.md make .md plugin and Obsidian from an engineer's point of view
#logseq DB updates (no desktop app yet) and LLM
@tana.inc App and AI updates and 7 ninja tricks
@wcools.bsky.social #Thymer split view
👇
@obsidian.md make .md plugin and Obsidian from an engineer's point of view
#logseq DB updates (no desktop app yet) and LLM
@tana.inc App and AI updates and 7 ninja tricks
@wcools.bsky.social #Thymer split view
👇
If you are in Vienna on Wednesday and interested in digital humanities, then this :).
April 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If you are in Vienna on Wednesday and interested in digital humanities, then this :).