It is done! 🚀 Today I’m publishing the first full, formal open source release of liiive — my web-based, real-time collaborative annotation environment for #IIIF image collections.

liiive enables users to view and annotate IIIF images together in real time — with shared cursors, synchronized drawing tools, and exportable, standards-compatible annotations.

As of today, the repository contains everything you need to run your own fully self-hosted instance:

https://github.com/rsimon/liiive

A big thank you to the University of Graz Department of Digital Humanities and the DHInfra.at initiative — this release wouldn’t have been possible without their support.

And now? it’s up to you!

Clone the repo. Deploy your own instance. Start annotating.

Most importantly: tell us how it goes. If something breaks, open an issue on GitHub. If something feels unclear, confusing, or slow — we want to know. Your feedback will shape where liiive goes next.

Announcing Zotero 8

https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/

Wir testen am 08.11.2025 um 15:00 eine neue Spielidee zum ersten Mal!

In Lanterne Rouge fahrt ihr alleine oder im Team mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln durch Wien. Euer Ziel: Mit möglichst vielen zurückgelegten Kilometern pünktlich ans Ende des Spiels zu kommen, bevor die Zeit vorbei ist! Bitte nimm eine gültige Öffi-Karte für Wien mit. Das Spiel ist auch für Familien geeignet!

Wir treffen uns vor der ehemaligen Postsparkasse, am Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien.

Bitte gib uns bescheid, ob du kommst. Damit wir genügend Spielmaterial bereitstellen können. Schreib deinen Namen oder Nick einfach hier rein: https://www.yourworldoftext.com/lanternrouge811

Blackle Mori shows a few of the hacks from Cohost.org before the community shut down for good. Use these if you dare, lest you too get labelled a CSS criminal.

https://css-tricks.com/the-lost-css-tricks-of-cohost-org/

»advanced nanovaccines for cancer immunotherapy« by nanasaheb thorat, a book published by springer, contains the phrase »As an AI language model« on page 25.

this raises a couple of significant questions: is this book still trustworthy, if it was written using an AI that we know produces text containing »alternative facts«. what is the actual harm such a book can cause? what are the quality assurance measures at springer actually worth?

btw. this book costs $100+.