Cato Minor
@catominor.bsky.social
Hic / Ille. A weird mixture of interests from medieval Latin, to digital humanities and note-taking apps.
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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
December 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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
"You are an expert Latin Paleographer" and by "you", I mean "you - LLM" :). Try it out! #htr #atr #dh
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
#htr #atr #humanities #dh
advent-calendar.humanities.tools
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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HTR Winter School 2025 is underway, with Czech medievalists as well ✨ @digilab-imafo.bsky.social @burnedlegate.bsky.social @martin.rocek.dev @catominor.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
HTR Winter School 2025 is underway, with Czech medievalists as well ✨ @digilab-imafo.bsky.social @burnedlegate.bsky.social @martin.rocek.dev @catominor.bsky.social
The final sign of decline is when you start to design your todo app... instead of working on more important things.
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The final sign of decline is when you start to design your todo app... instead of working on more important things.
Simulate CER! The most exciting simulator ever built.
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
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
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Simulate CER! The most exciting simulator ever built.
Struggling with the interoperability between Transkribus and eScriptorium? Try our convertor. #atr #htr
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
advent-calendar.humanities.tools #HTR #ATR #Transkribus #eScriptorium #dh
December 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Hard challenge! Can you beat it? ;) Maybe @scholipeta.bsky.social ?
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
advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #scholasticism #middleages
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hard challenge! Can you beat it? ;) Maybe @scholipeta.bsky.social ?
Something we are doing right now :). Every day a Vibe coded app until Christmas. :D
Day six of our DH Vibe Coding Calendar is here! 📅 Ever dreamed of becoming a composer 🎼? Now you can become a Unicode Composer! Try out our new vibe-coded tool and start creating (composite unicode characters) today.
advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #unicode #mufi #digitalhumanities
advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #unicode #mufi #digitalhumanities
December 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Something we are doing right now :). Every day a Vibe coded app until Christmas. :D
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Day six of our DH Vibe Coding Calendar is here! 📅 Ever dreamed of becoming a composer 🎼? Now you can become a Unicode Composer! Try out our new vibe-coded tool and start creating (composite unicode characters) today.
advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #unicode #mufi #digitalhumanities
advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #unicode #mufi #digitalhumanities
December 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Day six of our DH Vibe Coding Calendar is here! 📅 Ever dreamed of becoming a composer 🎼? Now you can become a Unicode Composer! Try out our new vibe-coded tool and start creating (composite unicode characters) today.
advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #unicode #mufi #digitalhumanities
advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #unicode #mufi #digitalhumanities
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