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felwert

@felwert@mstdn.social

#DigitalHumanities and #ReligiousStudies with a focus on #TextAsData 📝, #Networks 🕸️ and #CulturalHeritage 🗿. I’m also a human being who enjoys #family 👪, #crafting 🔨, #crochet 🧶 and #games 🎮🎲 Private account. Searchable via Tootfinder.

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felwert, to random German
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Will einen neuen Reisepass für mein Kind beantragen. Die Mutter und ich leben zusammen, haben das gemeinsame Sorgerecht, sind aber nicht verheiratet. Diesen Fall sieht weder die Website der Stadt noch deren Online-Formular vor. Rufe deswegen bei der Hotline an.
„Okay, Sie leben also in Wilder Ehe, ja?“ 😐️
(Der Herr war insgesamt sehr freundlich, verständnisvoll und hilfsbereit, aber diesen Begriff im Jahr 2024 fand ich schon bemerkenswert.)

felwert, to random German
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Das Digital Humanities Center an der (angesiedelt an der ) sucht jemanden für eine Elternzeitvertretung (50%, bis Ende des Jahres): https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/dc70c9cfcebdf5ce7ef7b01c93efac77215efab30 Das ist nur ein dreiviertel Jahr, aber für den einen oder die andere ja vielleicht ein passender Einstieg in den Job nach einem Abschluss oder eine gute Überbrückung. (Kann ich aus eigener Erfahrung sagen.) Von daher gerne streuen und/oder bewerben!

felwert, to random
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What is the Fediverse/Mastodon alterntive to Tweeps? I liked that word as a way to address the crowd and explicitly ask for feedback/opinions. I could think of Mastodonians (but that does not include other Fedi platforms) or Fedinauts (which might sound a bit arcane). Anything that has gained some traction?

felwert, to religion German
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An der Uni Göttingen ist eine Post-Doc-Stelle zu und Wandel von ausgeschrieben (100%, 3 Jahre): https://obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/Stellen/StellenDruck/74381 (PDF)

felwert, to random German
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Ich freue mich ja erst einmal über jede neue -Professur. Aber dass die Unis jetzt zunehmend anfangen, auch auf W2-Ebene Befristungen und TenureTrack einzubauen, ist wirklich sehr schwer erträglich. Irgendwo muss auch mal Schluss sein mit dieser permanenten Bewährung. /via @jk

https://nfdi.social/@jk/111850967114128210

simon, to random
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New Datasette plugin: datasette-homepage-table, which lets you configure Datasette to serve a specific table as the homepage of the instance (rather than a list of databases) https://github.com/datasette/datasette-homepage-table

felwert,
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@simon Only slightly related question, if I may: Is there a communication channel where one can ask questions about datasette? Like an online forum, a chat, or something? I’d really like to play more with datasette, but there are a few things I cannot wrap my head around. I couldn’t find anything on the website, but maybe I’m missing something?

jonny, to random
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I love the academic perception of time. We dont have enough time to spend a month writing tests and docs to make a project maintainable, but its no problem to throw 5 years of labor into the trash when someone leaves the lab and nobody understands what they did

felwert,
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@jonny @moritz_negwer At our institute, we have one project (you might call it a “lab”) that has a remarkable discipline in how they manage their collaboration practices. They are hard-core humanists (reading texts, then writing texts), and they use a digital collaboration platform in the most analogue way: Every time someone checks in a new version of a document, they basically upload a new file, but with a rigid file naming scheme containing a version number, initials of the editor, and date.

felwert,
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@jonny @moritz_negwer Still, it works for them, and it is strictly enforced. And every bit of information is somewhere in their collaboration platform, with a very comprehensive ordering scheme. I don’t agree with everything they do, but this is a remarkable example that it is in fact possible to maintain this kind of information infrastructure. And their publication output is stunning, even more so when measured against other humanities projects.

felwert, to pakistan
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The project is coming to an end, we are currently busy preparing the last batch of objects for publication. To give you a better sense of what we did in the project and what it looks like traveling to a small museum in to digitize a collection of ~1500 Buddhist sculptures, we made a short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvElg7B7kYQ Happy watching and please share if you like it!

KlausBulle, to museum German
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Das norwegische Nationalmuseum hat eine Semantische Suche für ihre Online-Sammlung veröffentlicht: https://beta.nasjonalmuseet.no/collection/ Was genau dahinter steckt, wird über einen auf der Seite verlinkten Artikel erläutert. Wäre das nicht auch eine tolle Weiterentwicklung für @ddbkultur?

@museum @lysander07

felwert,
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@KlausBulle @ddbkultur @museum @lysander07 Spannender Ansatz und gute Reflexion: “A significant challenge we are encountering is the extraction of accurate descriptions for some artworks, particularly figure studies. The OpenAI API […] often categorizes these images as nudity or sexual activity due to its content sensitivity guidelines. This situation illustrates a critical drawback of relying on commercial AI solutions, which may not always align with the nuanced needs of cultural heritage.”

felwert,
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@KlausBulle @ddbkultur @museum @lysander07 Würde mich echt interessieren, wie groß Vorteil von OpenAI hier gegenüber frei verfügbaren Embeddings ist, bei denen man mehr Kontrolle hat.

felwert, to ubuntu
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Trying to set up on to help my father with a computer issue. A few years back, an account in the instant messenger client was enough, because it used a quite clever mechanism to set up a connection. What’s the best way today? GNOME now supports RDP natively, but by default it seems to only support link local connections, not over internet? Do I really need TeamViewer for this?

felwert,
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@Goffi I've heard good things about RustDesk, but I don't get it. Do I have to set up a server in order to use it?

sarajw, to random
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I watched Stardust (2007) while making my julehjerter and I was delighted. Very entertained by the whole thing. Thank you @neilhimself !

I read the book yonks ago and so I looked up the differences. There obviously were quite a few, but who cares! Perfect escapism.

felwert,
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@sarajw @neilhimself Perfect, exactly what I need right now! Thanks for the tip!

felwert, to llm
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I’m really fascinated by @mozilla’s llamafile: It allows you to download and run locally as a single executable. This opens up a lot of use cases where privacy was an issue. https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile /ht @simon

felwert, to random
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I have an honest question about publishing, especially (but not exclusively) in non-STEM fields: The general narrative is that academics do all the work, and publishers just add their logo and take a huge fee, so we're better off doing it ourselves. But there's one thing publishers actually do, which is . (Okay, not they, but their contractor in India.) Universities/libraries might offer an OJS instance, but no typesetting service. How do you solve this?

felwert, to religion
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The next student’s symposium takes place in at the Center for Religious Studies in May 2024. This 29th incarnation of the series will be the first to be bilingual German and English! The Call for Papers is open now: https://symposium.ceres.rub.de/en/ @religion

jonny, to random
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Weird how being nonunionized faculty gives you no power to bargain over how much "overhead" and fake tuition the university charges per grad student. Almost seems like an effective way of pitting PIs against grad workers: to the PI you're extremely expensive, but the grad worker receives almost none of that.

The amount of ppl saying this is the natural "reality" rather than a byproduct of a disempowered faculty is making my eyes roll into the back of my skull

felwert,
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@jonny Interesting! What's the institutional context here? Where are the numbers from? In comparison: The German Research Foundation grants 22% overhead on the overall project costs, of which salaries usually are the largest part in humanities and social science projects.

litteracarolina, to histodons
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One of my students wants to do a project on word separation in manuscripts. The project is very interesting, but unfortunately I have no experience with any Indian languages/scripts. Can anyone recommend

a) a database of transcribed (not transliterated) Sanskrit texts;

or

b) a palaeographical manual for Sanskrit?

@histodons

felwert,
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@litteracarolina @histodons With transcribed vs transliterated, you mean with word boundaries inserted/Sandhi split? Actually, this is something we're very interested in. The digital corpus of Sanskrit contains both original transliteration and split words. http://www.sanskrit-linguistics.org/dcs/index.php We're also in contact with researchers who are actively working on improvements in these areas, if you need some names.

felwert,
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@litteracarolina @histodons Also, if the CONLL format is the DCS is a barrier, we also have some scripts to convert them into TEI with choice elements for the original and split words.

felwert,
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@litteracarolina @histodons Re original script, FID4SA maintains a collection of ground truth data for HTR that might be useful. https://heidata.uni-heidelberg.de/dataverse/FID4SA Re Sandhi splitter, Oliver Hellwig's Sanskrit parser contains one, and Sebastian Nehrdig is working on a more modern one. Sven Sellmer wrote a simple regex-based one for Pali that I have lying around somewhere, but apparently Pali is simpler in that regard.

felwert,
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@litteracarolina @histodons But all of these work on transliterated texts.

felwert, to random
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I've been using @organicmaps instead of for a while now, and I like it! Still have OSMand on my phone for advanced features, but I like the simplicity of for navigation. Biggest plus: Search just works.

felwert, to random
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I never ever want to hear again that tech people just cannot make themselves understood by normal people when philologists document their editorial conventions in Latin. 🙄

felwert,
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@NatureMC Es ist eine Edition der Schriften von Nikolaus von Kues (= Nicolaus Cusanus). 🙂

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