Hilde De Weerdt
@hildedw.bsky.social
Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
2. A multidisciplinary @asianstudies.org forum on Critical Approaches to Chinese Infrastructures with perspectives from history, sociology, urban studies, anthropology, development studies, religious studies, and digital humanities is about to go into production with the Journal of Asian Studies.
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
2. A multidisciplinary @asianstudies.org forum on Critical Approaches to Chinese Infrastructures with perspectives from history, sociology, urban studies, anthropology, development studies, religious studies, and digital humanities is about to go into production with the Journal of Asian Studies.
I'll give an overview of our work on the history of infrastructural repair and disrepair, a preview of a methodological article that is coming up in Digital Humanities Quarterly this month. #DH
November 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I'll give an overview of our work on the history of infrastructural repair and disrepair, a preview of a methodological article that is coming up in Digital Humanities Quarterly this month. #DH
It has a cover...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/p...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/p...
October 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It has a cover...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/p...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/p...
Oct 23 1-3pm we're conducting a workshop on semantic image annotation at the LECTIO institute for intellectual history from Antiquity through early modern times. The workshop is open to all. Participants can join in person or online but need to register from this site www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event...
October 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Oct 23 1-3pm we're conducting a workshop on semantic image annotation at the LECTIO institute for intellectual history from Antiquity through early modern times. The workshop is open to all. Participants can join in person or online but need to register from this site www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event...
so you can zoom in the tiniest of details and take them with you to do with whatever you want--I added a screenshot of the well-known exam cheat shirt, that you could now read (or in our IMMARKUS service, transcribe and translate with the assistance of a range of AI models). Cheers!
September 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
so you can zoom in the tiniest of details and take them with you to do with whatever you want--I added a screenshot of the well-known exam cheat shirt, that you could now read (or in our IMMARKUS service, transcribe and translate with the assistance of a range of AI models). Cheers!
Very pleased to see The Young Academy's important report on First Generation Academics published as a book. Hoping that this coming academic year will be better for all, including first generation academics!
To read online www.linkedin.com/posts/de-jon...
and
www.dejongeakademie.nl/nieuws/30313...
To read online www.linkedin.com/posts/de-jon...
and
www.dejongeakademie.nl/nieuws/30313...
September 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Very pleased to see The Young Academy's important report on First Generation Academics published as a book. Hoping that this coming academic year will be better for all, including first generation academics!
To read online www.linkedin.com/posts/de-jon...
and
www.dejongeakademie.nl/nieuws/30313...
To read online www.linkedin.com/posts/de-jon...
and
www.dejongeakademie.nl/nieuws/30313...
Coming up in Leuven next week:
Workshop: Structures of Descent: Neo4j-Enabled Readings of Intergenerational Mobility and Marriage in Premodern Korea
Date: Monday, 1 September 2025
Time: 15:00–17:00
More info:
www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/1-9-2...
Workshop: Structures of Descent: Neo4j-Enabled Readings of Intergenerational Mobility and Marriage in Premodern Korea
Date: Monday, 1 September 2025
Time: 15:00–17:00
More info:
www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/1-9-2...
August 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Coming up in Leuven next week:
Workshop: Structures of Descent: Neo4j-Enabled Readings of Intergenerational Mobility and Marriage in Premodern Korea
Date: Monday, 1 September 2025
Time: 15:00–17:00
More info:
www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/1-9-2...
Workshop: Structures of Descent: Neo4j-Enabled Readings of Intergenerational Mobility and Marriage in Premodern Korea
Date: Monday, 1 September 2025
Time: 15:00–17:00
More info:
www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/1-9-2...
You can get creative and have different models check on each other's work and make suggestions for further improvements.
E.g., openAI ranked its own transcription of a difficult to read handwritten German note lowest, with some clear reasoning as to why.
E.g., openAI ranked its own transcription of a difficult to read handwritten German note lowest, with some clear reasoning as to why.
August 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
You can get creative and have different models check on each other's work and make suggestions for further improvements.
E.g., openAI ranked its own transcription of a difficult to read handwritten German note lowest, with some clear reasoning as to why.
E.g., openAI ranked its own transcription of a difficult to read handwritten German note lowest, with some clear reasoning as to why.
I regularly get the question: "Which is the best model?" I usually answer: "You have to test." IMMARKUS (immarkus.xmarkus.org) makes testing across various open and commercial models easy for automatic transcription and translation. You can compare, collate, edit, and save all notes for later use.
August 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I regularly get the question: "Which is the best model?" I usually answer: "You have to test." IMMARKUS (immarkus.xmarkus.org) makes testing across various open and commercial models easy for automatic transcription and translation. You can compare, collate, edit, and save all notes for later use.
Urban historians working on any part of Asia are warmly invited to submit proposals for the session "Good Governance and Urban Conflict in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe and Beyond (13th-17th centuries)" at the 2026 European Association for Urban History Conference in Barcelona.
August 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Urban historians working on any part of Asia are warmly invited to submit proposals for the session "Good Governance and Urban Conflict in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe and Beyond (13th-17th centuries)" at the 2026 European Association for Urban History Conference in Barcelona.
Abstract:
With thanks to Joshua Wright for organizing.
With thanks to Joshua Wright for organizing.
August 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Abstract:
With thanks to Joshua Wright for organizing.
With thanks to Joshua Wright for organizing.
It's hard for this fairly text-oriented historian to beat that imposter feeling, but I'm looking fwd to discussing ongoing work on the longue-durée social and regional history of infrastructures at a Society for East Asian Archeology 10th Conference keynote.
Programme: seaa-web.org/conferences/...
Programme: seaa-web.org/conferences/...
August 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It's hard for this fairly text-oriented historian to beat that imposter feeling, but I'm looking fwd to discussing ongoing work on the longue-durée social and regional history of infrastructures at a Society for East Asian Archeology 10th Conference keynote.
Programme: seaa-web.org/conferences/...
Programme: seaa-web.org/conferences/...
Soon on immarkus.xmarkus.org : select your favorite models from Huggingface, the Github of AI models; or add your own.
Turns out freely available Chinese models like QWEN perform well on early printed Latin texts -better than others.
Get in touch if interested in testing or further collaboration.
Turns out freely available Chinese models like QWEN perform well on early printed Latin texts -better than others.
Get in touch if interested in testing or further collaboration.
August 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Soon on immarkus.xmarkus.org : select your favorite models from Huggingface, the Github of AI models; or add your own.
Turns out freely available Chinese models like QWEN perform well on early printed Latin texts -better than others.
Get in touch if interested in testing or further collaboration.
Turns out freely available Chinese models like QWEN perform well on early printed Latin texts -better than others.
Get in touch if interested in testing or further collaboration.
Apart from mappae mundi from various ms collections in /2, a favorite ex. of a copy of a painting by P Brueghel from the Brugge #IIIF site: the tiny almanack on this great parody of paper work was automatically transcribed - desktop offers more but I'm having a fun & productive trip to #IMC2025 /3
July 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Much of IMMARKUS functionality even works on newer phones-on the road you can 1) collect IIIF images 2) annotate with shapes or smart AI-assisted selection 3) auto-transcribe text with various models 4) explore & export annotations from a knowledge graph 5) copy & paste image parts to other apps /2
July 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Much of IMMARKUS functionality even works on newer phones-on the road you can 1) collect IIIF images 2) annotate with shapes or smart AI-assisted selection 3) auto-transcribe text with various models 4) explore & export annotations from a knowledge graph 5) copy & paste image parts to other apps /2
And we've now added Chinese models in IMMARKUS. Results vary, so try several. More to come, inc. a model for Han Nom.
Check back regularly and send your favorites to add.
Shown: performance on IIIF Chinese manuscripts maps and texts from @labnf.bsky.social & the National Palace Museum.
Check back regularly and send your favorites to add.
Shown: performance on IIIF Chinese manuscripts maps and texts from @labnf.bsky.social & the National Palace Museum.
June 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
And we've now added Chinese models in IMMARKUS. Results vary, so try several. More to come, inc. a model for Han Nom.
Check back regularly and send your favorites to add.
Shown: performance on IIIF Chinese manuscripts maps and texts from @labnf.bsky.social & the National Palace Museum.
Check back regularly and send your favorites to add.
Shown: performance on IIIF Chinese manuscripts maps and texts from @labnf.bsky.social & the National Palace Museum.
Great post on the first French translation of Confucian texts. The ms is accessible @gallicabnf.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social and you can import, transcribe and edit transcriptions in a snap with a range of models in IMMARKUS (immarkus.xmarkus.org) 😃
www.linkedin.com/posts/bnf_co...
www.linkedin.com/posts/bnf_co...
June 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Great post on the first French translation of Confucian texts. The ms is accessible @gallicabnf.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social and you can import, transcribe and edit transcriptions in a snap with a range of models in IMMARKUS (immarkus.xmarkus.org) 😃
www.linkedin.com/posts/bnf_co...
www.linkedin.com/posts/bnf_co...
And nearly twenty years later I am doing the same, another report, on rethinking data and data ecologies, on how to bring in students, artisans, shopkeepers, merchants, diviners, villagers, clergy, laypersons, and more through the social history of public works. /2
June 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
And nearly twenty years later I am doing the same, another report, on rethinking data and data ecologies, on how to bring in students, artisans, shopkeepers, merchants, diviners, villagers, clergy, laypersons, and more through the social history of public works. /2
Off to Beijing for digital history week at Beida and the 20th anniversary of China Biographical Database. 18 years ago I wrote a long report about this massive undertaking's problems and possibilities. What I asked for then was more than fully realized, no mean feat, kudos to all involved. /1
June 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Off to Beijing for digital history week at Beida and the 20th anniversary of China Biographical Database. 18 years ago I wrote a long report about this massive undertaking's problems and possibilities. What I asked for then was more than fully realized, no mean feat, kudos to all involved. /1
Well done @thejohnrylands.bsky.social on the #IIIF -- working with the primers and all your metadata in #IMMARKUS (immarkus.xmarkus.org) is a snap!
June 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Well done @thejohnrylands.bsky.social on the #IIIF -- working with the primers and all your metadata in #IMMARKUS (immarkus.xmarkus.org) is a snap!
Join us for a discussion w Naomi Standen on global history & technologies of building & making based on her forthcoming book Digging, Weaving and Dancing: Everyday Creativity in Eastern Eurasia in the 7th to 14th C www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/talk-...
www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/04-06...
www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/04-06...
May 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Join us for a discussion w Naomi Standen on global history & technologies of building & making based on her forthcoming book Digging, Weaving and Dancing: Everyday Creativity in Eastern Eurasia in the 7th to 14th C www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/talk-...
www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/04-06...
www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/04-06...
Very much looking forward to a discussion with He Wenkai about his seminal comparative historical work.
www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/04-04...
www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/04-04...
April 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Very much looking forward to a discussion with He Wenkai about his seminal comparative historical work.
www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/04-04...
www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/04-04...
Woke up to a message from Harvard president Alan Garber titled "Our Resolve." I expected something other than a message stating the university's resolve to combat antisemitism and to cower to the Trump administration's anti-diversity campaign. Make no mistake about it, anti-semitism is a problem.
April 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Woke up to a message from Harvard president Alan Garber titled "Our Resolve." I expected something other than a message stating the university's resolve to combat antisemitism and to cower to the Trump administration's anti-diversity campaign. Make no mistake about it, anti-semitism is a problem.