Author: job.vandoeselaar@ivdnt.org
IMPACT pilot at the KB – Introduction and set-up
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 … Continue reading "IMPACT pilot at the KB – Introduction and set-up"
IMPACT Project Outcomes event: Expert workshop
After lunch, the participants of the IMPACT Project Outcomes Event split up into two groups. While one group stayed in the Auditorium to hear more about the library experiences of the project, a group of distinguished experts in the fields of OCR, language technology and digital humanities, together with the reviewers and EC project officer … Continue reading "IMPACT Project Outcomes event: Expert workshop"
IMPACT Project Outcomes event: discussion panel
The final session of the afternoon consisted of a panel discussion with the entire audience. The panel consisted of Aly Conteh (The British Library), Alenka Kavčič-Čolić (NUK National and University Library of Slovenia), Tomasz Parkoła (PSNC Supercomputing Centre), Andreas Parschalk (University of Innsbruck) and Jasper Faase (Koninklijke Bibliotheek). All have much experience in digitisation projects in one role or another and … Continue reading "IMPACT Project Outcomes event: discussion panel"
IMPACT Project Outcomes event: afternoon session
After lunch, the participants of the IMPACT Project Outcomes Event split up into two groups. One went upstairs to the tool workshop, while the other group stayed in the Auditorium to see the library experiences of the project.
IMPACT Project Outcomes event: morning session
On 26 June 2012 the IMPACT project organised their final event at the KB National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague. The project outcomes were presented by IMPACT staff to an audience of nearly 100 people from around Europe.
Polish IMPACT ground truth added to Poliqarp search engine
Polish ground truth texts in the form of a corpus, developed within the IMPACT project, have now been added to the University of Warsaw’s Poliqarp seach engine at http://poliqarp.wbl.klf.uw.edu.pl
Project Europeana Newspapers started
In the recently started project Europeana Newspapers, several IMPACT applications will be used for refining digitised newspaper content.
PSNC releases IMPACT dataset under CC-BY license
The dataset produced by IMPACT is a landmark and an invaluable resource for the field of OCR and language technology related to historical documents. With over half a million images from the various European libraries in IMPACT and an unprecedented number of more than 50.000 ground truth files containing a high level of detail with … Continue reading "PSNC releases IMPACT dataset under CC-BY license"
Closing the IMPACT Project blog
The IMPACT project has now officially finished and been superseded by the Centre of Competence.
BSB/ÖNB Demo Day – Videos online!
It took us a bit longer than expected, but all videos of our dual event “Turning Historical Documents into Digital Full Texts” (11 – 12 October 2011) are now online and embedded into the relevant blog posts. For the firstday, you’ll find them here on the IMPACT blog. For the second day, please visit the blog … Continue reading "BSB/ÖNB Demo Day – Videos online!"