Author: job.vandoeselaar@ivdnt.org
How Can I OCR My Dictionary?
If you are wondering how to OCR a dictionary, Jesse de Does, from the IMPACT CoC Board member Instituut of Nederlandse Lexicologie, gives you some keys at DigiLex.
DATeCH 2016 Call for papers
Call for papers Poznan, 6-7 October, 2016 The DATeCH international conference brings together researchers and practitioners looking for innovative approaches for the creation, transformation and exploitation of historical documents in digital form.
Gallica: Travel through 3 million digital documents
Gallica, the BnF digital library, has a new design: new layout, improvements of some research and access functionalities, and new curations of its digital collections, all for the benefit of a large audience.
ALTO schema version 3.1 available for public use
The ALTO XML Editorial Board is pleased to announce that the ALTO schema version 3.1 is now available for public use. The schema can be found on the website of the The Library of Congress at http://www.loc.gov/standards/alto/v3/alto-3-1.xsd and on Github at https://cdn.rawgit.com/altoxml/schema/master/v3/alto-3-1.xsd.
Open Source Preservation Workshop – Serving the Cultural Heritage: Register now!
Registration is now open to attend the Open Source Preservation Workshop. Organised by the PREFORMA project (http://www.preforma-project.eu/), it is the first in a series of international events planned by this international consortium of technology and content providers, working together on one of the main challenges memory institutions are facing nowadays: the long-term preservation of digital … Continue reading "Open Source Preservation Workshop – Serving the Cultural Heritage: Register now!"
BL Digital Scholarship goes Latin
Last year I was invited to visit two important National Libraries in Latin America. There I had the opportunity to meet colleagues working on digital projects in both institutions and share with them our experiences and projects involving access, use, enhancement, interpretation and dissemination of our digital collections.
DATeCH International Conference 2016
The International Conference Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage, DATeCH, shall be held in Poznań (Poland). Organised by the Impact Centre of Competence board member and Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), the conference will take place on 6 and 7 October 2016. Save the date!!
Impact Centre of Competence Annual General Meeting – Summary
On December 11th, 2015, the Impact Centre of Competence held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Alicante. This meeting is open to all member of the Centre and it has as objective, apart from designing the vision of the Centre in the next year, to provide our members a forum to share expertise and showcase … Continue reading "Impact Centre of Competence Annual General Meeting – Summary"
Input for ALTO 3.1 version request
The ALTO XML Editorial Board is pleased to announce that ALTO draft schema version 3.1 is now online for public comment. The draft schema can be found on Github at https://github.com/altoxml/schema/blob/master/v3/alto-3-1-draft.xsd.
Open Source Preservation Workshop – Serving the Cultural Heritage (7 April 2016)
PREFORMA project invites you to the Open Source Preservation Workshop – Serving the Cultural Heritage. Organised by PREFORMA – PREservation FORMAts for culture information/e-archives (http://www.preforma-project.eu/), it is the first in a series of international events planned by this international consortium of technology and content providers.