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Exciting news! 🎉 The Journal of Open Humanities Data Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) has been accepted into Web of Science. This recognition highlights our commitment to high-quality articles and particularly impressive for a humanities journal #academicpublishing #OpenAccess

'Quantitative Text Analysis'. Now out in *Nature Reviews Methods Primers*! This was an absolute dream team of computational humanists to work with.

nature.com/articles/s4358…

Drie PhD studenten die ik samen met Mike Kestemont begeleid - Caroline Vandyck, Nicky Voorneveld en Marika Fox - vertellen over hun onderzoek naar middeleeuwse handschriften en verhalen: blog.uantwerpen.be/bladspiegel/hu…

Yesterday I learned...
...the 🇻🇦 Vatican Library has a gold coin of Charlemagne, CARULUS REX, coined in Lucca...
... that was deposited on the Tomb of St. Peter by Charlemagne HIMSELF, when he was crowned in the Basilica, on Christmas in AD 800.
Mind blown.

We are very happy to publicly release the CATMuS Medieval dataset on Hugging Face:

huggingface.co/datasets/CATMu…

This dataset is unique in the space of HTR, as it includes more 160 000 lines of ground truth in 10 languages over 9 centuries (8-16 CE) in Latin scripts over 208 docs.

We are looking for new colleagues: 4 vacancies for professors in our department of literature: English (100%), French (75%), German (65%), and Spanish (100%), deadline approaching: 26 February (within two weeks). Check: uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacanc… (search 'literature')

Spent a wonderful time at the gorgeous campus in Yale University, where I presented in the Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies series last night. The Beinecke Library was 😍 The medievalist + DH community are a very warm nest. Thx Estelle Guéville Dr. Alex Gil 🏳️ for the hospitality! Now off to NY!

Had a great time in the beautiful town of Princeton! Many thanks to all the staff of the The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton for their hospitality! I enjoyed the talk and it was particularly great catching up with my old friend Wouter Haverals Now off to Yale for the second gig in the US tour!

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000

Join us this Tuesday, 2/6 at 4:30pm, for our first talk of the new year! Mike Kestemont will speak on 'The Abundance of Medieval Literature: An Eco-Computational Perspective'.

RSVP: forms.gle/R1Hqk5hVy3ASHa…
Event info: bit.ly/Kestemont

MARBAS at Princeton #PrincetonCDH

Veel middeleeuwse ridderromans zijn zoekgeraakt, vertellen Folgert Karsdorp Ⓥ en Mike Kestemont. Maar soms worden er nog exemplaren nog op de gekste plaatsen teruggevonden. Luister hier het hele gesprek terug: bit.ly/3Odt8CN

Radio aan! OVT begint om 10u live vanuit literatuurfestival Writers Unlimited met✍️📚:
📻De Indische koloniale erfenis Adriaan van Dis & Lara Nuberg
📻Tula Gershwin Bonevacia
📻Column Abdelkader Benali
📻Verdwenen ridderromans Mike Kestemont Folgert Karsdorp Ⓥ
En meer. Tot zo! NPO Radio 1

De edele ridder op zijn nobele ros komt in talloze verhalen voor. Maar veel ridderromans zijn ook verloren gegaan; beschadigd, vernietigd of simpelweg zoekgeraakt. Hoeveel pareltjes moeten wij missen? Mike Kestemont en Folgert Karsdorp Ⓥ zochten het uit. Luister zondag, 10u NPO Radio 1 .

JOB ALERT: our department of literature (Faculty of Arts, University of Antwerp) is hiring new professors (junior or senior) for English (100%), French (75%), German (65%) and Spanish literature. Deadline: 26 February '24: uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacanc… RT = 🙏

Very excited to announce the discovery of Old English fragments inside a series of book bindings! They come from an 11th-c. Latin psalter with Old English glosses and this psalter comes with a fascinating potential backstory involving a refugee English princess! 🧵

#HTR #DH alert !

- 3.36 million characters
- 113,228 lines
- 1,602 files
- 180 different mss
- 3 well represented languages (Latin, Castillan, Old French) and 4 others

This is what was used for CATMuS Medieval ( zenodo.org/records/100662… ), a generic, model for Kraken.