Hilde De Weerdt
@hildedw.bsky.social
Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
Reposted by Hilde De Weerdt
🎉 IMMARKUS 1.0.5 is out! The latest release of our open-source image annotation tool for humanities, heritage & museum professionals is now available – with bug fixes, productivity enhancements, and improved #IIIF annotation import.
Try it here: immarkus.xmarkus.org
Docs: github.com/rsimon/immar...
Try it here: immarkus.xmarkus.org
Docs: github.com/rsimon/immar...
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
🎉 IMMARKUS 1.0.5 is out! The latest release of our open-source image annotation tool for humanities, heritage & museum professionals is now available – with bug fixes, productivity enhancements, and improved #IIIF annotation import.
Try it here: immarkus.xmarkus.org
Docs: github.com/rsimon/immar...
Try it here: immarkus.xmarkus.org
Docs: github.com/rsimon/immar...
Somewhat of a surprise to me when this came up on a newsfeed: we're used to hearing that the Netherlands tops the list of the global EF English Proficiency Index, but it appears Flanders tops the Netherlands, and most Flemish provinces significantly outperform most Dutch provinces...
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Somewhat of a surprise to me when this came up on a newsfeed: we're used to hearing that the Netherlands tops the list of the global EF English Proficiency Index, but it appears Flanders tops the Netherlands, and most Flemish provinces significantly outperform most Dutch provinces...
More on the sources and source ecologies for infrastructural studies, and comparative regional and social histories of infrastructures on the way.
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
More on the sources and source ecologies for infrastructural studies, and comparative regional and social histories of infrastructures on the way.
2. A multidisciplinary @asianstudies.org forum on Critical Approaches to Chinese Infrastructures with perspectives from history, sociology, urban studies, anthropology, development studies, religious studies, and digital humanities is about to go into production with the Journal of Asian Studies.
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
2. A multidisciplinary @asianstudies.org forum on Critical Approaches to Chinese Infrastructures with perspectives from history, sociology, urban studies, anthropology, development studies, religious studies, and digital humanities is about to go into production with the Journal of Asian Studies.
WIth colleagues collaborating on the Lives and Afterlives of Material Infrastructures we worked on methods & theoretical perspectives first; first results:
1. Our digital humanities quarterly article on semantic annotation of text and image is out and live! dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000...
1. Our digital humanities quarterly article on semantic annotation of text and image is out and live! dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000...
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Contextual Semantic Text and Image Annotation in the MARKUS Environment
dhq.digitalhumanities.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
WIth colleagues collaborating on the Lives and Afterlives of Material Infrastructures we worked on methods & theoretical perspectives first; first results:
1. Our digital humanities quarterly article on semantic annotation of text and image is out and live! dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000...
1. Our digital humanities quarterly article on semantic annotation of text and image is out and live! dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000...
Kom langs op 23 november. Wij zijn te vinden in de Universiteitsbibliotheek vanaf 11u met een korte sessie over het verzamelen, annoteren en vertalen met AI van beeldmateriaal wereldwijd.
Ga op digitale schattenjacht; word een wereldverzamelaar!
www.dagvandewetenschap.be/activiteiten...
#dvdw2025
Ga op digitale schattenjacht; word een wereldverzamelaar!
www.dagvandewetenschap.be/activiteiten...
#dvdw2025
KU Leuven - Ga op digitale schattenjacht en word een wereldverzamelaar! - Op Locatie - Dag van de Wetenschap
Ontdek het uitgebreide aanbod aan activiteiten van Dag van de Wetenschap. En goed nieuws: heel wat digitale Dag van de Wetenschap-activiteiten blijven immers gewoon online staan. Voortaan is het dus e...
www.dagvandewetenschap.be
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Kom langs op 23 november. Wij zijn te vinden in de Universiteitsbibliotheek vanaf 11u met een korte sessie over het verzamelen, annoteren en vertalen met AI van beeldmateriaal wereldwijd.
Ga op digitale schattenjacht; word een wereldverzamelaar!
www.dagvandewetenschap.be/activiteiten...
#dvdw2025
Ga op digitale schattenjacht; word een wereldverzamelaar!
www.dagvandewetenschap.be/activiteiten...
#dvdw2025
CFP: 14th Annual ESPRit conference: “Periodicals and the World”
9-11 September 2026, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Brussels
events.vub.be/periodicals-...
9-11 September 2026, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Brussels
events.vub.be/periodicals-...
Periodicals and the World
Since their inception, periodicals have travelled across regions, reporting on local and global events and developments, and shaping public discourse on wh...
events.vub.be
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
CFP: 14th Annual ESPRit conference: “Periodicals and the World”
9-11 September 2026, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Brussels
events.vub.be/periodicals-...
9-11 September 2026, Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), Brussels
events.vub.be/periodicals-...
I'll give an overview of our work on the history of infrastructural repair and disrepair, a preview of a methodological article that is coming up in Digital Humanities Quarterly this month. #DH
November 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I'll give an overview of our work on the history of infrastructural repair and disrepair, a preview of a methodological article that is coming up in Digital Humanities Quarterly this month. #DH
Sorry to miss Beijing Forum on AI next week, but glad to be in Paris tomorrow afternoon for a retrospective on 4 years of DISTAM, a French network on Digital Research for African and Asian Area Studies, led by Prof. Marie Bizais-Lillig
For those in and around Paris: distam.hypotheses.org/21048
For those in and around Paris: distam.hypotheses.org/21048
Distam :“Fouille de texte et TAL en études aréales” le 3 novembre au Pôle des langues et civilisations (Paris)
Le consortium propose le 3 novembre une synthèse des travaux effectués au cours des quatre années passées ainsi que les perspectives d’exploitation des corpus textuels envisagés dans le cadre d’une pr...
distam.hypotheses.org
November 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Sorry to miss Beijing Forum on AI next week, but glad to be in Paris tomorrow afternoon for a retrospective on 4 years of DISTAM, a French network on Digital Research for African and Asian Area Studies, led by Prof. Marie Bizais-Lillig
For those in and around Paris: distam.hypotheses.org/21048
For those in and around Paris: distam.hypotheses.org/21048
en doen dat zowel door vertalen van Chinees werk naar het Engels via bestaande en eigen kanalen als door steun voor Chinees taalonderwijs. Maar idd cultureel is het opboksen tegen Japan en Korea.
October 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
en doen dat zowel door vertalen van Chinees werk naar het Engels via bestaande en eigen kanalen als door steun voor Chinees taalonderwijs. Maar idd cultureel is het opboksen tegen Japan en Korea.
In China wordt al een paar decennia heel veel uit het Engels vertaald naar het Chinees. Er ligt in de wetenschappelijke wereld een sterke nadruk op internationale publicaties, en dat is vooral Engels. De overheden zetten ook in op culturele zichtbaarheid mondiaal
October 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
In China wordt al een paar decennia heel veel uit het Engels vertaald naar het Chinees. Er ligt in de wetenschappelijke wereld een sterke nadruk op internationale publicaties, en dat is vooral Engels. De overheden zetten ook in op culturele zichtbaarheid mondiaal
Reposted by Hilde De Weerdt
Had the chance to join a workshop on image annotation in IMMARKUS led by @hildedw.bsky.social, Rainer Simon, Sunkyu Lee, and Dawn Zhuang today. This was great fun and definitely a tool I will use when working with visual media and texts in the future! #digitalhumanities
October 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Had the chance to join a workshop on image annotation in IMMARKUS led by @hildedw.bsky.social, Rainer Simon, Sunkyu Lee, and Dawn Zhuang today. This was great fun and definitely a tool I will use when working with visual media and texts in the future! #digitalhumanities
It has a cover...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/p...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/p...
October 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It has a cover...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/p...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/p...
CFP for a workshop to be held in Leuven in September 2026 on Histories of Scholarly Evaluation in the Sciences and Humanities 1700–2000 - deadline: Jan 2026
hshh.ugent.be/en/news/cfp-...
hshh.ugent.be/en/news/cfp-...
CFP: Histories of Scholarly Evaluation, 1700–2000
A workshop organised by Leuven, Ghent, and Utrecht. Co-funded by HSHH and the ERC project Global Academies.
hshh.ugent.be
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
CFP for a workshop to be held in Leuven in September 2026 on Histories of Scholarly Evaluation in the Sciences and Humanities 1700–2000 - deadline: Jan 2026
hshh.ugent.be/en/news/cfp-...
hshh.ugent.be/en/news/cfp-...
November 23 is open science day. Come check out what research is going on at universities across Flanders. As part of the offerings in Leuven we're conducting 2 30-minute workshops on working with high-quality digital images in the arts. Register here www.dagvandewetenschap.be/activiteiten... #DVDW
KU Leuven - Ga op digitale schattenjacht en word een wereldverzamelaar! - Op Locatie - Dag van de Wetenschap
Ontdek het uitgebreide aanbod aan activiteiten van Dag van de Wetenschap. En goed nieuws: heel wat digitale Dag van de Wetenschap-activiteiten blijven immers gewoon online staan. Voortaan is het dus e...
www.dagvandewetenschap.be
October 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
November 23 is open science day. Come check out what research is going on at universities across Flanders. As part of the offerings in Leuven we're conducting 2 30-minute workshops on working with high-quality digital images in the arts. Register here www.dagvandewetenschap.be/activiteiten... #DVDW
Oct 23 1-3pm we're conducting a workshop on semantic image annotation at the LECTIO institute for intellectual history from Antiquity through early modern times. The workshop is open to all. Participants can join in person or online but need to register from this site www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event...
October 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Oct 23 1-3pm we're conducting a workshop on semantic image annotation at the LECTIO institute for intellectual history from Antiquity through early modern times. The workshop is open to all. Participants can join in person or online but need to register from this site www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event...
Reposted by Hilde De Weerdt
Wetenschap is overal en we tellen af naar de 15de Dag van de Wetenschap op zondag 23 november 2025.
Vrijdag 10/10 om 10u10 komen honderden activiteiten online www.dagvandewetenschap.be.
Dompel je onder en stippel jouw ideale #dvdw2025 uit met jouw eigen profiel.
Vrijdag 10/10 om 10u10 komen honderden activiteiten online www.dagvandewetenschap.be.
Dompel je onder en stippel jouw ideale #dvdw2025 uit met jouw eigen profiel.
October 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Wetenschap is overal en we tellen af naar de 15de Dag van de Wetenschap op zondag 23 november 2025.
Vrijdag 10/10 om 10u10 komen honderden activiteiten online www.dagvandewetenschap.be.
Dompel je onder en stippel jouw ideale #dvdw2025 uit met jouw eigen profiel.
Vrijdag 10/10 om 10u10 komen honderden activiteiten online www.dagvandewetenschap.be.
Dompel je onder en stippel jouw ideale #dvdw2025 uit met jouw eigen profiel.
Tenure track prof in Contemporary Middle East Studies KU Leuven
Unlike many European universities, Leuven has a tenure track system; university & faculty management are elected. There is a startup fund of 110,000€. Leuven has a sabbatical policy.
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Unlike many European universities, Leuven has a tenure track system; university & faculty management are elected. There is a startup fund of 110,000€. Leuven has a sabbatical policy.
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Tenure track professor in Contemporary Middle East Studies (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven)
The East Asian and Arabic Research Unit of the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven is seeking a full-time tenure-track professor (ZAP) in contemporary Middle East Studies. The professorship will commence on ...
www.kuleuven.be
October 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Tenure track prof in Contemporary Middle East Studies KU Leuven
Unlike many European universities, Leuven has a tenure track system; university & faculty management are elected. There is a startup fund of 110,000€. Leuven has a sabbatical policy.
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Unlike many European universities, Leuven has a tenure track system; university & faculty management are elected. There is a startup fund of 110,000€. Leuven has a sabbatical policy.
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Reposted by Hilde De Weerdt
New in #IMMARKUS: when you import a #IIIF manifest, IMMARKUS now imports existing annotations (embedded or referenced) into your workspace.
We'd love to test with real-world examples. If you know of IIIF collections with annotations, let us know. Annotated manifests still seem rare in the wild...
We'd love to test with real-world examples. If you know of IIIF collections with annotations, let us know. Annotated manifests still seem rare in the wild...
October 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Reposted by Hilde De Weerdt
informatief interview met historicus Beatrice de Graaf waarin ze het besluit van de meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer om Antifa als terroristische organisatie te kenmerken scherp veroordeelt.
www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/antifa/
www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/antifa/
Beatrice de Graaf: Antifa-besluit Tweede Kamer is ‘een knuppel om tegenstanders monddood te maken’
‘Een schok’, zo noemt Beatrice de Graaf het besluit van de Tweede Kamer om de Antifa-beweging als terroristische organisatie aan te merken.
www.historischnieuwsblad.nl
September 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
informatief interview met historicus Beatrice de Graaf waarin ze het besluit van de meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer om Antifa als terroristische organisatie te kenmerken scherp veroordeelt.
www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/antifa/
www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/antifa/
"This is what it looks like when a society’s elite rolls over in the face of authoritarianism. It never ends well.'
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
"This is what it looks like when a society’s elite rolls over in the face of authoritarianism. It never ends well.'
Reposted by Hilde De Weerdt
RIP Robert Redford, who famously and beautifully brought Norman Maclean’s *A River Runs Through It* to the big screen:
Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power.
buff.ly
September 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
RIP Robert Redford, who famously and beautifully brought Norman Maclean’s *A River Runs Through It* to the big screen:
so you can zoom in the tiniest of details and take them with you to do with whatever you want--I added a screenshot of the well-known exam cheat shirt, that you could now read (or in our IMMARKUS service, transcribe and translate with the assistance of a range of AI models). Cheers!
September 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
so you can zoom in the tiniest of details and take them with you to do with whatever you want--I added a screenshot of the well-known exam cheat shirt, that you could now read (or in our IMMARKUS service, transcribe and translate with the assistance of a range of AI models). Cheers!
If you are interested in the history of book, check out this phenomenal exhibit curated by the wonderful Martin Heijdra at Princeton. It is a model exhibit in so many ways, covering different parts of the world, so many languages, and, images are in IIIF
dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...
dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...
Forms & Function
dpul.princeton.edu
September 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
If you are interested in the history of book, check out this phenomenal exhibit curated by the wonderful Martin Heijdra at Princeton. It is a model exhibit in so many ways, covering different parts of the world, so many languages, and, images are in IIIF
dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...
dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...