Two weeks ago I started a new job as a distinguished prof in #DigitalHumanities and #AI @tecdemonterrey.bsky.social. It has been a couple of busy weeks! But today I'm visiting #LabNuevoLeon with its amazing collab spaces to take a course on creative visualization with government data 😍

I sometimes paint in my spare time. One of the things I love about it is the feeling of being able to manifest what is in my imagination 🌈 So, this painting is called 'The geographer'. I made it for a friend and colleague that has been my mentor and a great model of what academia should be. Ian, 🙏🏼

Beautiful sunny day in the north west of England 🌈

Uuhh this is a good challenge for the holidays!
Choose 5 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 5 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge

1 of 5 📚🪐

(6/7)
Italica Cursiva: 8.8%
Redonda: 5.25%
Procesal: 8.92%
Procesal Encadenada (most difficult): 14%
For PE-⬆️ this was just the 1st iteration, so we know we will achieve much better results in the next weeks. Procesal Encadenada is a huge challenge for palaeographers—see below! 🔍

(4/7) We’re creating #ML models with @transkribus.bsky.social for 5 types of 16th/17th c. Spanish American calligraphies:
-Italica Cursiva
-Redonda
-Cortesana
-Procesal
-Procesal Encadenada
See some examples:
#AI #DigitalHumanities

(3/7) To address this, my teams @UCA & @FNS use #HTR for #automated transcription of thousands of documents. Last week in #Mexico, we delivered the 1st #AI workshop for #humanities research & handwritten text recognition with @Transkribus @TecnológicoDeMonterrey, presenting our latest results!🔥

(2/7) Challenges we confront in the Mexican #colonial #archive:
-Need of highly specialized palaeography skills (years to acquire)
-Linguistic changes over time
-Multilingual corpora: #Latin, #Spanish, #Indigenous languages. (2/8)
-Many calligraphies
-Text+image combinations
#DigitalHumanities

(1/7) For a while we've been working on an ambitious problem: The National Archive of Mexico #AGN holds 58 linear km of documents. Only a drop of this ‘ocean’ has been studied due to many challenges. But great news: we are now unlocking this information! A thread 🧵 (1/8) #HTR #AI #CulturalHeritage

No te pierdas la conferencia de @isabelgalina.bsky.social sobre #PatrimonioCultural y #PatrimonioDigital hoy a las 4:00pm #Mexico! #HumanidadesDigitales #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage

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