Martin Roček

@martin.rocek.dev

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Digital humanities scholar doing 🪄 in JavaScript and Python, focusing on UX and UI. Artist and traveller whenever time allows. 🇨🇿 living in 🇮🇸 Member of @digilab-imafo.bsky.social and @medieval-cuni.bsky.social

Screenshot of the Translucens tool interface displaying a segment of a medieval manuscript. The image is visually split into four vertical strips using different blending modes, demonstrating how users can adjust settings to reveal hidden or faded text within the historical document.
The interior of a Gothic church featuring a central, light-colored stone baptismal font. A vibrant stained-glass window on the right casts colorful blue, purple, and orange light reflections across the tiled stone floor in the foreground. In the background, a large stone gothic archway frames a dimly lit corridor leading to wooden doors.
A visitor — a young woman with long brown hair, seen from behind — interacts with a touchscreen kiosk in a dimly lit museum gallery. The screen displays a digitised manuscript page titled “Vše dohromady” on a cyan background. To her left, a large yellow exhibition panel numbered “2” is titled “Kolofony / Colophons”, with Czech and English explanatory text and reproductions of historical manuscript colophons. A glass display case containing open historical books is visible in the lower left.
Detail of the MANU platform interface demonstrating manuscript annotation. A vertical toolbar with editing icons is on the left, with the cursor tool active. On the manuscript canvas, a bounding box selects a red rubricated Lombardic initial 'A'. An adjacent popover dialog contains an active text editor titled 'Initial letter A', showing a paleographic description of the letter alongside rich text formatting options and save controls.
A promotional graphic for a medieval-style font set against a red background. A central cream-colored card features the letters "Aa" in a large, red, gothic style. Below it, text in red and black reads, "from medieval manuscript to digital edition, real medieval font based on medieval handwriting." At the bottom of the card, smaller grey text reads, "Praha, Národní knihovna České Republiky, IV C 3."
A screenshot of a digital interface measuring a historical manuscript. In the top left corner is the word 'MANU' in bold black text. On the left is a vertical software toolbar with the ruler tool selected. The background shows an aged parchment document with black gothic calligraphy. In the center is a large, decorative red initial letter, which is being measured by a white digital line indicating a height of '16.6 mm'.
A screenshot of a web application called "MANU". The dashboard displays a user's manuscript collection. There are tabs for "All", "Owned", "Shared with me", and "Public". Below, there are two sections: "Your manuscripts" with a button to "+ Add IIIF manifest" and several cards representing different manuscripts like "ARME DI CARDINALI...", "SOMNIALE DANIELIS...", and "ST AUGUSTINE, HOMILIES". A second section, "Shared with me", shows cards for "BIP - GROUP 2" and "SBÍRKA SPISŮ LÉKAŘSKÝCH...". A blue "+ Add IIIF Manifest" button is prominent in the top right.
A list view of the "MANU" dashboard, similar to the previous image but displaying the manuscripts in a tabular format instead of a grid. The sections remain the same ("Your manuscripts", "Shared with me", "Public manuscripts"). Each row in the table represents a manuscript and includes columns for "TITLE", "OWNER", and "ACTIONS". The "ACTIONS" column contains icons for viewing, editing, and sharing the manuscript. The titles and descriptions match those seen in the grid view.
A meme image of chef Nusret Gökçe, known as "Salt Bae," wearing a white t-shirt and round sunglasses. He is flamboyantly sprinkling salt from his fingertips, letting it bounce off his forearm. Bold white text at the top reads "AH YES" and at the bottom reads "LETS ADD A BIT MORE INSANITY"
A dark-themed screenshot of the TRANSLUCENS software interface used for analyzing historical documents. The central workspace displays a digital scan of a weathered manuscript page overlaid with a grid of control points for alignment. The left sidebar manages "Folios," showing thumbnails for recto and verso images. The right sidebar, labeled "Parameters," contains image processing controls, including an active "Illumination correction" toggle and "Ink Recovery" sliders for parchment smoothing, ink edge sensitivity, and brown ink detection.
New languages for Vocabula.lat: Interface of Vocabula.lat is now translated to two new languages – Icelandic and German!
Screenshot of a Latin dictionary showing a detail of the entry "utrum".
I always find cycling in the forests of my home town very liberating and inspiring. This picture was taken near a fairytale destroyed village near the Czech-German border. 🚴😊
White car with camera picturing the streets of Prague.