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Map of the European digitisation landscape

We invite you to add your initiative to the Map of the European digitisation landscape a project that has been developed by Succeed, which aims to identify active projects, centres of competence, networks and any other initiatives to help pinpoint stakeholders, future needs and options for the exploitation of digitised content.

New Project Proposals Corner

Succeed, throught Impact Centre of Competence, has launched the Project Proposals Corner, a gateway to information and advice on undertaking new digitisation projects. In this new space, you can find the latest news on open EU calls, info-days, collaborative initiatives, and events, as well as information on funding opportunities (self-financing, public, public-private partnerhip or private … Continue reading

How to maximise usage of digital collections

(Reblogged from Research in KB blog: http://researchkb.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/how-to-maximise-usage-of-digital-collections/) Libraries want to understand the researchers who use their digital collections and researchers want to understand the nature of these collections better. The seminar ‘Mining digital repositories’ brought them together at the Dutch Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) on 10-11 April, 2014,

The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and the Centre Centre d’Études Supérieurs de la Renaissance win the Succeed Awards

Congratulations to the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (University of Saint John’s, Collegeville , USA), and the Centre d’Études Supérieurs de la Renaissance (Tours , France ), winners of the Succeed Awards. The Succeed Awards recognise and foster excellence in digitisation, especially among programs focused on historical texts. The Spanish company Tecnilógica and The London Metropolitan Archive have been awarded with … Continue reading

i2s DigiBook, DIGIBÍS and the University Library of North Rhine-Westphalia join Impact

The Impact Centre of Competence welcomes its three new members: i2s DigiBook, DIGIBÍS and the Library of the University Library Centre of North Rhine-Westphalia (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen). With these additions, 36 companies and institutions are now part of the Centre of Competence In Digitisation.

The KU Leuven and the Theatre Documentation Centre, new members of Impact

The Theatre Documentation Centre (CDT) and the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) have joined the Centre of Competence Impact. With these new additions , there are now 33 members in this international organization, which is dedicated to the research and development of tools for digitizing texts and historical documents.

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.

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.