Anna Michalcová

Another talk for me next Friday together with more HTR specialists. Quite a busy Miss Lizzy week ahead 😅
@digilab-imafo.bsky.social

Presenting next week in my beloved Sudetenland (this time Louny 🚀)

a cartoon character with glasses and a yellow sweater is standing in front of a fire ALT: a cartoon character with glasses and a yellow sweater is standing in front of a fire

Trying to upload any attachment is just like

a man giving a thumbs up in front of a fire with the words " this is fine " below him ALT: a man giving a thumbs up in front of a fire with the words " this is fine " below him

First time dealing with the GRIS system applying for projects. Didn't know I need to save after writing every word since the system crashes so often

Officially Dr. Anna now 🥳

Guess who is on the picture in the middle 👀
Also who is going to the Transkribus User Conference 26? We might see each other there!

tuc.transkribus.org

I appreciate that according to the COST Grant Application, I seem to be member of every marginalized academia group possible 😅

The man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family says Family members say the man who was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a U.S.

Alex Pretti grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he played football, baseball and ran track for Preble High School. He was a Boy Scout and sang in the Green Bay Boy Choir.

apnews.com/article/immi...

16/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar :). Today LayoutXML-to-trOCR tool created by @burnedlegate.bsky.social to easily convert PageXML and ALTO into training datasets for trOCR models.

advent-calendar.humanities.tools #htr #atr #ocr #trOCR #machinelearning #ai

That’s a wrap on HTR Winter School 2025 in Vienna! 🇦🇹 Huge thanks to everyone, and special thanks to the participants in the Medieval Czech group. You were wonderful and hard-working! It was a great experience and an honor to work with you. 📚🩵 @digilab-imafo.bsky.social

HTR Winter School 2025 is underway, with Czech medievalists as well ✨ @digilab-imafo.bsky.social @burnedlegate.bsky.social @martin.rocek.dev @catominor.bsky.social

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My little humble contribution ✨

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

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

Well, can you pass the captcha? 😳

Found a little devil in a medieval Czech bible! Cute 🫀
(Olomouc, Scientific Library in Olomouc, M III 3, f. 223r)

Day 4 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar! 📅 IIIF Explorer: Never get lost in a #IIIF manifest again—view, download, split, and merge! (With some patience—optimization isn’t part of Vibe coding ;))

advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #tei @iiif.bsky.social @imafo-oeaw.bsky.social

Václav Hanka would like this 👍

A little surprise for dh people from a few of us 🙂

I don't believe this. My forefathers and foremothers have... lied to me?

I am going to say something controversial but brave.

Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": IV. Allegro con fuoco was used in Baby Shark as the main melody and you can't change my mind about this because I can't unhear it.

Found an ideal playlist for the finishing touches on my dissertation.

Welcome to the official Bluesky of medievalists at Charles University!
Follow us for research news, lectures, and updates from our medieval and digital humanities projects. ⚔️📜
#MedievalStudies #DigitalHumanities #CharlesUniversity

What is your feel good music playlist when you're buried in administrative work. For me it's the 80s

To conclude our presentation on the Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora, here’s a fun picture of Gebauer and Šembera... making up

Humanists and Technologists Join Forces to Advance Historical Text Recognition and Research Humanists and Technologists Join Forces to Advance Historical Text Recognition and Research

In June, an international network of humanists and technologists joined forces to advance historical text recognition and research at the Source Codes of the Past (SCOOP) conference at Princeton.

cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

I took the bus, near lost it too,
yet I pray the rest brings peace anew 💚

Long have I championed Deutsche Bahn,
yet today I was most bitterly betrayed.
My train connection is lost,
and their hollow words—“we are very sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused”—
shall never win my pardon.

Third monitor currently not plugged in because I have to figure out where to put it (space issues caused by too many plants), but once I do it's over for everyone