That’s a wrap on the Joint Training Week in Reykjavík, and with it, the first year of #ANTIDOTE! All six Working Groups presented their impressive final projects.

Thank you to everyone who made this week inspiring, productive, and unforgettable.
Takk fyrir okkur!

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Our trip to Þingvellir National Park offered a breathtaking encounter with history and landscape, standing at the site of the world’s oldest parliament amid stunning Icelandic scenery.

A memorable moment of reflection during a packed week!

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The #ANTIDOTE joint workshop participants were warmly received by Dr Beeke Stegmann, research lecturer at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík.

Afterwards, the group visited the manuscript exhibition "Worlds in Words"

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The #ANTIDOTE joint workshop in Reykjavík is officially underway!

We're excited to welcome 45 participants who’ll spend the week working on 6 hands-on projects, including HTR, critical editions, preparing a corpus, working with metadata, and visualisation. Looking forward to an exciting week!

Thank you to all organisers, instructors and not least our expert group for a fantastic workshop at @tcddublin.bsky.social. We're now in full swing preparing for the Reykjavík workshop in June, where experts & novices will team up on projects in digitising older texts 🇮🇪 ➡️ 🇮🇸

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Ondřej Tichý closed the day with AI for philological purposes and a round of LLM-generated RegEx Tetris.

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Next up: Martin Roček on interactive maps with Leaflet, designing UI/UX in Figma and visual information presentation.

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Day 4 of the #ANTIDOTE expert week focuses on visualisation, starting with a deep dive into XML editions and an introduction to #Menota - The Medieval Nordic Text Archive, presented by Paola Peratello and Federico Boschetti.

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The #ANTIDOTE multiplier event 'Heritage, Archives and Digital Possibilities' brought together associations, practicioners, repositories, industry and researchers to face and solve current challenges in the GLAM sector

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On Day 3 of the #ANTIDOTE Expert Week Mark Faulkner and Elisabetta Magnanti gave an introduction to corpus linguistics, text processing, and data visualisation in Python, equipping participants with practical tools for analyzing large datasets.

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The afternoon sessions, led by Ondřej Tichý and Mark Faulkner, were dedicated to (meta)data scraping, wrangling, compiling, and structuring.

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On Day 2 of the #ANTIDOTE Expert Week Federico Boschetti & Paola Peratello guided us through synergies between HTR platforms and XML-native databases, and the integration of eXist-db with the eScriptorium API.

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Digitization by day, distillery by night

An intense first expert workshop day ended in true Dublin fashion with a visit to Teeling Whiskey Distillery, followed by a great evening over dinner.

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We followed up with theoretical and practical foundations of @transkribus.bsky.social HTR and OCR workflows with AbbyyFinereader, with hands-on presentations by Elisabetta Magnanti and Nicole Volmering (Trinity College Dublin)

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Starting Day 1 of the #ANTIDOTE expert workshop with a treat at TCD Library.

Participants had the chance to see English and Irish manuscripts and an Old Icelandic law book.

An inspiring start to a week focused on scale, data and the material past.

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.

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