job.vandoeselaar@ivdnt.org, Author at IMPACT Centre of Competence

Virtual Research Community for the Preservation of DCH – Vilnius, November 7th, 2013

The Impact Centre of Competence and the Succeed project will be represented by Hildelies Balk (Chair of the Executive Board of Impact and member of the Succeed General Assembly).

CFP – DATeCH 2014, New submission deadline 17 Jan. 2014

Succeed project and the Impact Centre of Competence are glad to announce the DATeCH 2014 Conference.

New search services at digitisation.eu

Succeed project has made available through the Impact Centre of Competence two new search services. These services are built upon the Apache Solr platform.

The sustainability of competence centres (Digital Heritage 2013)

Last Tuesday (October, 29th), in the framework of the Digital Heritage 2013 Conference in Marseille, a workshop on competence centres in digitisation and digital preservation took place. With the title “From European and national projects to high-quality services and products”, the feasible scenarios for the development and sustainability of centres gathering and spreading excellence were … Continue reading

Diachronic search

As a demonstration of the potential applications of the Impact ground-truth collection, we have implemented a new online service which enables users to perform linguistically enriched queries on a collection of historical texts. The interface is available at http://data.cervantesvirtual.com/blog/diasearch/ and today, it works with the 86 Spanish texts in the Impact-BVC corpus.

1st Succeed hackathon @ KB

Throughout recent weeks, rumors spread at KB National Library of the Netherlands that there would be a party of programmers coming to the library to participate in a so-called “hackathon”. In the beginning, especially the IT department was rather curious: will we have to expect port scans being done from within the National Library’s network? … Continue reading

New version of the impact Centre of Competence website

We are happy to let you know that the website of the impact Centre of Competence has been redesigned and restructured to improve navigation and usability. We have also implemented a faceted search in the Tools, Data and Services sections. In this blog you can find a short description of the available pages and the … Continue reading

IMPACT– BHL-Europe collaboration

Introduction In late 2010, IMPACT and the Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe (BHL-Europe) got in touch and decided to cooperate: in the area of developing sustainable business models for cultural heritage and in evaluating the success of several IMPACT tools on data from the BHL digital collection

Development and Use of Computational Lexica for OCR And IR on Historical Documents – A Cross-Language Perspective

In the wake of current mass digitization projects in many libraries around the world, huge amounts of historical books and documents are brought to the web. In the scientific community, the difficult metamorphosis from historical paper documents to searchable electronic documents has drawn considerable attention.

IMPACT pilot at the KB – Conclusion

In the final months of the IMPACT project in 2012, the KB worked together with one of the current digitisation projects Early Dutch Books Online (EDBO) to research various methods of improving OCR. EDBO is a combined effort between the KB and the university libraries of Leiden and Amsterdam to digitise 2 million pages of books from … Continue reading