Nikolaus Weichselbaumer
@NWeichselbaumer
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book historian at @uni_mainz #dh #bookhistory #typehistory
Mainz
Joined September 2013
Thrilled and honoured to receive a Starting Grant from @ERC_Research for my project *WidowsPrint*. The project will investigate how economic developments influenced the rights and the agency of widows in the German print industry, c. 1500-1700. More details soon! For now 🍾
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Poster session @icdar2023, Mathias Seuret (right) explains his great approach for combining OCR approaches. #icdar2023 Joint work w @Janne_90, @NWeichselbaumer, @FlorianKordon et al. Paper: https://t.co/Eeq1i60e3h arXiv: https://t.co/rcqcKNin35 Code: https://t.co/IvBIHFlYrE
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Next day @icdar2023, @FlorianKordon just presented his great work on glyph and OOD classification using JEMs. #icdar2023 @FAU_Germany Joint work w @NWeichselbaumer R Herz, S. Mossman , E. Potten, M. Seuret, M. Mayr. Paper: https://t.co/hLAwjNlM8G
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Heute Mittag geht es los mit unserem Praxis-Workshop OCR! 😍 Gemeinsam mit @OCR_D_community @ocr4all und @Textplus_NFDI !
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Applications are welcome: professorship of International Literature and Reading Culture at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz -
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In June, we had a small conference on type specimens at the Deutsches Technikmuseum. Now I’ve typed up my introduction on using those specimens as sources for research. There’s lots more to say about digitization, but here’s a start: https://t.co/TY2sx45YEE
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This drawer, from a cabinet that was once in the Reichsdruckerei, has about 100 hand-cut steel punches from Ferdinand Theinhardt. Less than a dozen people have seen it IRL since 1983, but you can come look at it next Saturday during @LNDMberlin (also with a big magnifying glass)
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Bis zum 29.08.2022 bewerben! Das @BundesarchivD sucht für den Standort Berlin-Lichterfelde oder Koblenz eine Referent*in (w/m/d) für die Projektgruppe Digitales #Wissensmanagement (5 Jahre befristet, EG 13 TVöD) ➡️ https://t.co/Lrtpxj34Hv
#Stellenangebot #Bundesarchiv #job ^sk
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The Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin has just published a living-history interview with the lithographer and offset printer Dietmar Liebsch! It is in German, with English subtitles. It includes many details of life in East Berlin, too. https://t.co/4h1mSs90MI
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For the first time, there are two winners of the #GutenbergPrize! Prof. Dr. Jeffrey F. Hamburger, expert on late medieval bookillustration and the transition to the printing era, and Eckehart SchumacherGebler, printer, publisher and professor of printing.
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Delighted to see the volume is out! And in #OpenAccess, too. My own contribution focussed on the challenging production of academic books in Wittenberg (1531-1550) Here is a little 🧵 #earlymodern #bookhistory
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Ever wonder what the photo-typesetting era was like? There’s a new 37-minute interview with Alexander Nagel (German with English subtitles), whose career in it was fascinating. See it & read a great introduction to it (with links) on @fontstand News! https://t.co/OQ9KEaL0p8
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Coming soon to a beta near you @sbb_news ;) 🟩 = Location | 🟥 = Person | 🟦 = Organization #quratorAI
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The Department is seeking to appoint an Associate Professor in Typography & Graphic Communication to join our vibrant academic community. You can find out more here: https://t.co/GWgL8cRCfU. Closing date: 8 May 2022.
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ODOR: ICPR22 ODeuropa Competition on Olfactory Object Recognition started! https://t.co/b7THaURHab Task: Smell-related object detection in historical artworks #MachineLearning #ObjectDetection #icpr2022 @odeuropa @ZinniasMathen
@maier_ak @r_kosti @prathmeshmadhu @Peter_Bell77
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Der Angriff Russlands macht auch uns an der #UniMainz fassungslos. Wir sorgen uns um alle Menschen, die von dieser Aggression betroffen sind – insbesondere an unseren ukrainischen Partneruniversitäten, aber auch um unsere Studierenden und Beschäftigten aus der #Ukraine in Mainz.
Solidarität mit der #Ukraine und den ukrainischen #Hochschulen: HRK verurteilt russischen Angriff – HRK-Präsident Peter-André Alt: „Unsere Solidarität gilt der gesamten ukrainischen Bevölkerung und vor allem unseren hochschulischen Partnern.“ https://t.co/kjkj0ssrSg
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The most recent issue of troja - Jahrbuch für Renaissancemusik is now available (in #openaccess). It's focussing on Maximilian I and offers a great selection of German and English articles Of interest for #MusicalBookHistory and #BookHistory My own contribution focusses on ...
Vor mehr als 500 Jahren verstorben, aber noch immer eine schillernde Figur: Wer mehr zum Denken des Kaisers Maximilian I. erfahren will, wird in troja, dem Jahrbuch für Renaissancemusik fündig. Der neueste Band ist nun auf https://t.co/O4w8xxWJID in #musiconn.publish erschienen.
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We are absolutely delighted to announce the start of our new project 'IMPRESSVM. The cradle of printing in Flanders'. The following two years, we will be cataloguing incunabula printed in the Southern Netherlands in STCV. /1 #bookhistory #bibliography #earlymodern
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Ab heute Online! Gemeinsam mit Studierenden des Instituts für Geschichte der @TUDarmstadt wurde die Ausstellung „Von der Lochkarte zur Cloud. Die Geschichte digitaler Speichermedien“ bei @googlearts entwickelt. https://t.co/a9kSmw4jP0
#GoogleArtsandCulture #MuseumFromHome #mspt
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