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

IMPACT/myGrid Hackathon – Taverna Roadmap

In the afternoon, after everyone had worked through the 3 group tasks in the practical session: ‘Workflow Development in Digitisation’, we returned to hear from the Taverna Manager – Shoaib Sufi.

IMPACT/myGrid Taverna Hackathon – Taverna Server as a Portal

Clemens Neudecker leads a session on using Taverna Server as a portal, using IMPACT workflows to demonstrate the functionality.

The IMPACT Framework – From Tools to Workflows

This practical session started with the attendees introducing themselves and splitting up into 3 groups, so that each could work on a different set of tasks based on a Case Study.

IMPACT/myGrid Taverna Hackathon

Full details of this workshop are available through the workshop wiki at: http://impact-mygrid-taverna-hackathon.wikispaces.com/Background+Materials

IMPACT Final conference

24-25 October the final conference of the IMPACT project took place at the British Library in London. The whole conference was blogged and photographed with presentations uploaded to Slideshare. These are also embedded within the IMPACT project blog at impactocr.wordpress.com

IMPACT Final Conference – Blog-index

The whole conference was blogged and photographed with presentations uploaded to Slideshare and videos to Vimeo. These are also embedded within the blogs on this site. This post contains direct links to all posts made at the Final Conference. Please do feel free to add comments or thoughts below the posts.

IMPACT Final Conference – Research Parallel Sessions Brief Summary

Parallel Session 1: Research was dedicated to presentations and discussions around the state of the art research tools for document analysis developed via the IMPACT Project. As you might guess from the slides below, the information packed into these presentations could fill a whole new two-day conference! But for now, a brief summary will have to suffice and … Continue reading

IMPACT Final Conference – Digitisation Tips Parallel Session

Aly Conteh (BL) hosted the parallel Q&A session on Digitisation tips. Pannel members included Astrid Verheusen (Manager of the Digital Library Programme and Head of the Innovative Projects Department, KB National Library of the Netherlands), Geneviève Cron (OCR expert, Bibliothèque nationale de France), Christa Müller (Director Digital Services Department, Austrian National Library), Majlis Bremer-Laamanen (Director … Continue reading

IMPACT Final Conference – The Functional Extension Parser: A Document Understanding Platform with Günter Mühlberger

Günter Mühlberger chaired the 3rd block: Tools for Improved Text Recognition. However, as time ran out in the session he chose to postpone the delivery of his talk on the FEP until the second day Research Parallel Sessions.

IMPACT Final Conference – Introduction to the IMPACT Centre of Competence

Aly Conteh (BL), Hildelies Balk-Pennington De Jongh (KB) and Lieke Ploeger (KB) introduced and launched the IMPACT Centre of Competence!