Thoughts on running local, privacy aware LLMs and other AI/ML via GPT4All, PrivateGPT, OLMo 2 or Ollama?

I have an M3 Macbook Air and limited capacity for faff right now

🎉 Just released #Annotorious v3.4, which brings a facelift to the drawing tools!

• Better contrast across backgrounds
• Less intrusive handles
• Add and remove polygon corners with a click

https://github.com/annotorious/annotorious

#OpenSource #ImageAnnotation #JavaScript #IIIF

@nichtich ha ha–I feel your pain.

FWIW: I feel it's an incredible timesaver for simple task & well trodded paths (on StackOverflow). Sometimes it's also useful for a quick discussion of pros and cons of particular architecture approaches. But confront it with a tricky problem, and you can literally see the point where it falls down a rabbit hole of broken code. (Interestingly, I found that once it starts hallucinating *a little* it quickly spirals out of control completely.)

Finally! @leaflet, the venerable lightweight JS tilemap display library, is gearing up for a 2.0.0 release! 🎉

https://leafletjs.com/2025/05/18/leaflet-2.0.0-alpha.html

#Mapstodon #gischat #Leaflet #LeafletJS

What feature should I build next for https://liiive.now?

What feature should I build next for https://liiive.now?

I declare this bug squashed! Happy annotating everyone 😀

I'm currently investigating an odd issue on #liiive: sometimes, edits to an existing annotation get discarded when clicking "Save".

Not consistently reproducible. If you're seeing this issue, let me know! https://liiive.featurebase.app/en/p/issue-edits-dont-get-stored #heisenbug #concurrency

🚨 New #liiive feature: permanent rooms now publish live #IIIF manifests!

You can now view your annotation sessions in external IIIF viewers like Mirador, Theseus, or Universal Viewer—without the hassle of downloading and hosting manifests yourself.

🔗 Read more: https://liiive.now/blog/2025-05-live-manifests/

https://github.com/daniel-j-h/zindex this little cloud-native spatial index made it into #WeeklyOSM 😍

With DuckDB-WASM spatial queries against a single static file are a thing!! What!! 😮

Example:

https://shell.duckdb.org/#queries=v0,SELECT-lng%2C-lat-FROM-'https%3A%2F%2Fdaniel%20j%20h.github.io%2Fzindex%2Fberlin%20latest%20hydrants.parquet'-WHERE-z-IN-(3771320898%2C3771320904)-AND-lng-BETWEEN-2307450897-AND-2307489074-AND-lat-BETWEEN-3400700224-AND-3400740787~

#Mapstodon #OpenStreetMap #CloudNative #DuckDB

@coret Hey, cool–I wasn't aware. Looks like they uploaded today? Thanks for the shoutout. I'll start sharing... 🙂

Trying #liiive in our IIIF Workshop, thank you, @aboutgeo, for this interactive session :)
#IIIF #DigitalHumanities #DigitalEditions #DH @IIIF

Second day of IIIF Workshop!
Thank you for joining us 😊 #Transkribus and IIIF
#DigitalHumanities #DH #IIIF @type
@fwf @atclariah

Haven't explored IMMARKUS yet? Now’s a great time!

• New docs w/ clearer guides and (animated) screenshots
• Multi-image annotation workbench (IIIF or local files)
• Use AI tools for fast region selection
• Build + explore your own ontology & knowledge graph
• 100% local, open source, in your browser

https://immarkus.xmarkus.org

#IMMARKUS #ImageAnnotation #IIIF #DigitalHumanities #OpenSource

@DavidH wow–if there's ever a plan to do some enrichment of those, let's definitely connect about it. We're still ironing out the wrinkles on the library. But it's definitely ripe for some pilot challenges :-)

We've been working on a little library that might be useful if you work with #TEI and NER or text analysis:

• Extract plaintext from TEI
• Run your NER/NLP tools
• Map results back into the original TEI—without breaking anything!

Perfect for adding automated annotations to existing markup.

👉 https://github.com/recogito/tei-standoffconverter-js

#DigitalHumanities #TEI #NER #NLP

PhD position in Computer Vision & Art at St. Pölten UAS (Austria)!
Work at the intersection of #AI, #ComputerVision, #ArtHistory & #DigitalHumanities.
More info: https://www.fhstp.ac.at/en/job-openings-career/jr-computer-vision-for-the-analysis-of-visual-art-305332
#PhD #CulturalHeritage #MachineLearning

Wow so French and German government agencies are building a joint #opensource, self-hostable #GoogleDocs replacement. 😲

I would ofc prefer this being built by someone independent and *funded* by the public, but hell this does feel cool nevertheless:

https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/login/

#DigitalSovereignty #foss #freesoftware

#IMMARKUS update: our next release will complete the toolbox—bringing the full set of #computervision and #AI​-powered drawing tools!

• Smart Scissors – trace edges, Photoshop-style.
• Edge Snap ​​– snap to corners & lines for clean cutouts.
• Auto Select – smart one-click object selection.

Want to know more? Ping us! #IIIF #ImageAnnotation #DigitalHumanities

@JubalBarca same reason I shut down my Github Sponsors a long time ago. You could also try SteadyHQ which is (sort of) an EU based alternative to Patreon.