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DATeCH 4th Session – Best practices and experiences
The second Digitisation Day started with two parallel sessions. The scientific presentations related to “Best practices and experiences in digitisation of cultural heritage”, and the round table “Future research for the digital library”.
DATeCH 3rd Session – Postcorrection
After the lunch break, the DATeCH conference continued with its third session, chaired by Martin Reynaert (Tilburg University), where the Postcorrection of OCR was discussed.
DATeCH 2nd Session – Linguistic processing and encoding
In the second session, chaired by Katrien Depuydt (Institut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie), Linguistic Processing and Encoding was discussed.
DATeCH 1st Session – Document Analysis and OCR
After the opening session, the activity in the DATeCH international conference started. The first session, chaired by Basilis Gatos (National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”) was centered in Document Analysis and OCR.
Digitisation Days, 19-20 May 2014
Digitisation Days, organized by the Succeed project and the Impact Centre of Competence, were held at Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) on the 19th and 20th of May, 2014.
Interviews to Succeed’s Expert Advisory Board
Jill Cousins (Europeana), Michael Keller (Stanford University Library), Milagros del Corral (International Organisations advisor) and Steven Krauwer (Utrecht University) talk about present and future in digitisation in these interviews, that took place during the Digitisation Days ( Madrid, 19 and 20 May 2014).
Mario Vargas Llosa: “The missions of modern Argonauts are to digitize, preserve and disseminate”
“The missions of modern Argonauts are to digitize, preserve and disseminate”, said Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize winner and president of the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library Foundation, during Digitisation Days, which took place last 20th of May at the Spanish National Library in Madrid.
Succeed survey on content/tools licensing and innovative usages
The Succeed project is undertaking a survey on the use of licenses in the field of digitisation and on innovative usages of digitised content. The aim of this survey is to gather information about current practices for licensing data, metadata and tools and on new trends in the exploitation of digitised content. This information will help define … Continue reading "Succeed survey on content/tools licensing and innovative usages"
The digitization of cultural heritage is the main topic during Digitisation Days
The Succeed project and the Impact Centre of Competence co-organise the Digitisation Days, with the participation of experts all over the world and also of the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. International experts in digitisation will meet at the National Library of Spain next May 19th and 20th.
Digitisation tools at Succeed
The Succeed project invites you to add your tools to our “Overview on available tools for text digitisation“. This overview gathers about 219 different tools for image enhancement, segmentation, OCR engines, OCR post-correction and enrichment, lexicon building, evaluation, etc. To add your tools, you just need to create an account. Succeed supports the validation of digitisation … Continue reading "Digitisation tools at Succeed"