ANTIDOTE - Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts

Don’t miss your chance to become part of ANTIDOTE!
Call for applications to participate in the 2nd cycle of the #ErasmusPlus Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts (ANTIDOTE):

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- Open for doctoral and master's students until Oct 7, 2025
#Humanities

🗓️❗️ Reminder: The deadline is tomorrow (October 7)!

Applications for the second year of the @antidote-network.bsky.social training programme are open until Tuesday next week, 7 October. Don’t miss it, and feel free to share with your students! 😊

Graduate students at partner institutions are invited to apply for a two-part training in digital editing of medieval texts.

📝 Application: CV, transcript of records & statement of purpose.
💰 Travel & accommodation covered.

More info: antidote.hi.is
Questions: antidote@hi.is

📢 Call for Applications:
Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts

Novice training: Klosterneuburg, Dec 1–5, 2025
Joint training: Bratislava, May 25–29, 2026

TEI-XML, Unicode/MUFI, XSLT, ODD/XSD, eXistDB, TEI-TOK, web technologies, preservation & open science
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Graduate students at partner institutions are invited to apply for a two-part training in digital editing of medieval texts.

📝 Application: CV, transcript of records & statement of purpose.
💰 Travel & accommodation covered.

More info: antidote.hi.is
Questions: antidote@hi.is

📢 Call for Applications:
Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts

Novice training: Klosterneuburg, Dec 1–5, 2025
Joint training: Bratislava, May 25–29, 2026

TEI-XML, Unicode/MUFI, XSLT, ODD/XSD, eXistDB, TEI-TOK, web technologies, preservation & open science
antidote.hi.is/courses-year-two

CfP for IMC Leeds, 6-9 July 2026 The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time Sponsor: Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts, Iceland Submission deadline: 1 September 2025 The Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts invites contributions that explore how digital methods and tools can illuminate, represent, and reinterpret medieval temporalities. While we particularly welcome research with a focus on the Northern World, this call is open to comparative or globally situated projects across disciplines, periods, and geographies that approach time as both a subject of inquiry and a structuring principle. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to): Visualising medieval perceptions or structures of time Tools and technologies for measuring, representing, or distorting medieval time Digital editions of computus texts Digital reconstruction of objects or texts, lost or transformed over time Manuscript temporality (e.g. mise-en-page, palimpsests, gloss traditions, marginalia) using computational approaches Modelling temporal rhythms in liturgy, agriculture, politics, or narratives Analysis of long-term temporalities in environmental, climatic, or landscape data Artificial intelligence and the automation of temporal interpretation Temporal modelling in metadata, databases, markup languages, and DH infrastructures Interface design and user experience in projects that convey or manipulate medieval temporalities Re-mediating or reimagining medieval time in games or immersive digital environments Temporal poetics and the aesthetics of time in digital medievalism Please submit an abstract of around 200 words, a short bio including affiliation and contact information, and indicate your preferred mode of participation (in-person or virtual). Proposals and queries should be sent to Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir (kll@hi.is) no later than 1 September 2025.

CfP for #IMC Leeds 6–9 July 2026
“The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time”
Sponsored by @mshl-cdha.bsky.social

How can digital methods help us study or represent medieval ideas of time?

Submit by 1 Sept 2025
#IMC2026 #DigitalHumanities #MedievalSky
IMC Padlet: tinyurl.com/52dbx5ey

Did you know about our two public @transkribus.bsky.social models for Icelandic historical handwriting? 📝🇮🇸

Both were trained by Emil Gunnlaugsson, supported by MSHL/CDHA, with source material from the National Archives of Iceland and the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies 👇

What a ride it’s been. Organising the @antidote-network.bsky.social event took blood, sweat, tears, laughter, and love, and it’s been such a memorable experience to see it all come together successfully!

Grateful for everyone who made it happen. I'm already looking forward to next year 💙

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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Having amazing time in Reykjavik working with group specialised on design and visualisation at @antidote-network.bsky.social

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!

📖 TCBlog: Student Experiences at the #ANTIDOTE 2025 beginner-level training at Stift Klosterneuburg

Novices from @tcddublin.bsky.social reflect on an intense week of workshops on TEI/XML, HTR, and computational philology. A brilliant glimpse into hands-on #DH training!

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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 Icelandic #GLAM sector faces many of the same questions. Initiatives like this multiplier event are a great chance to connect across borders, share experiences, and find practical ways forward.

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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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Day 4 of the @antidote-network.bsky.social DH workshop! We're discussing digital editions this morning led by the wonderful Paola and Federico. #medievalsky

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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What a beautiful bunch of people I've had the pleasure to meet here in Dublin ✨️ @antidote-network.bsky.social

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

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#DH #metadata #medievalsky

Day 3 of ANTIDOTE! This morning Mark Faulkner talks about scalability in corpus linguistics. @antidote-network.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social #DH #ANTIDOTE #medievalsky

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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#DH #HTR #XML #eScriptorium #eXist-db #medievalsky

Laptop screen showing HTR software in use with a digitized medieval manuscript image visible on screen.

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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#DH #medievalsky