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John Russell
@johnruss28.bsky.social
Associate librarian at Penn State, associate director of the Center for Virtual/Material Studies
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Paste any IIIF manifest → model classifies every page locally → see where illustrations appear.

Part of small-models-for-glam: small, efficient models for cultural heritage work.

Not everything needs GPT-4!

Try it: huggingface.co/spaces/small-models-for-glam/iiif-illustration-detector
IIIF Illustration Detector - a Hugging Face Space by small-models-for-glam
Find illustrated pages in digitized historical books
huggingface.co
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Reposted by John Russell
Lastly, we made an interactive tool for exploring these borrowing trends, and we also released a public dataset.

Exploratory tool: melaniewalsh.github.io/whats-seattl...

Data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
December 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM