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New Vacancy: KB Researcher-in-residence

The Koninklijke Bibliotheek is looking for early career data scientist, social scientist, computer scientist, humanities scholar, or more simply put, a researcher working with or interested in our digital collections, such as the web archive, 100 million pages digitised text or ground-truth sets. Summary of the vacancy: Paid research opportunity Two placements in 2021 All … Continue reading

EC Public consultation on opportunities offered by digital technologies for the culture heritage sector

The European Commission has launched a public consultation in order to evaluate the Recommendation of 27 October 2011 on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation. This is a very important consultation for Cultural Heritage institutions and researchers and practitioners related to digitisation field since the results may affect the funding … Continue reading

IMPACT CLARIN K-Centre in digitisation (IMPACT-CKC)

K(nowledge)-centres are important components of the CLARIN Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure, as these are the places where people from within and outside the CLARIN community can get access to specialized knowledge and expertise in many fields. At this moment CLARIN has 16 K-centres, covering a variety of languages (and language families), modalities, data types, technologies and … Continue reading

Google Dataset Search Beta version

Google has recently launched a beta version of a dataset search engine in order to facilitate the accessibility to large data sets. Extracted from Google Dataset Search site: What is Dataset Search? Data Set Search enables users to find data sets stored across thousands of repositories on the Web, making these data sets universally accessible … Continue reading

New COST Action Collection Date

The new date for presenting your COST action proposal is on November 29th, 2018 at 12:00 noon (CET). For more information on the COST programme and how to present your proposal, please visit http://www.cost.eu/participate/open_call

EC Public Consultation on Europeana

The Commission has launched a public consultation on Europeana, the European online platform, to hear the opinions from citizens and organisations with a personal or professional interest in digital culture available online. We wish to know how citizens, professionals and organisations use the platform that gives access to over 53 million items including image, text, … Continue reading

Call for participation: Hacking the news workshop

Monday 5 March 2018 (12:30) – Tuesday 6 March 2018 (17:00) Hacking the News: from digitised newspapers to the archived-web: an introductory workshop to text and data-mining #DHNhacknews Libraries have been digitising historical newspapers since the early 2000’s. However, to what extent are these digitised newspaper archives being used in digital humanities research? Web-archiving began in … Continue reading

ScanTailor, new tool at IMPACT Demonstrator platform

Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It gives the ability of: splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, binarising, among others features. The provided input are raw scans, and it will provode pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file as an output. Scan Tailor is licensed under Free Software, General … Continue reading

DH2018 – Call for papers

I: GENERAL INFORMATION The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submission of proposals for its annual conference on any aspect of digital humanities. The theme of the 2018 conference is “Bridges/Puentes,” and contributions that speak to the theme or that focus on knowledge mobilization, collaboration among scholars and scholarly communities, relationships of North/South scholarship … Continue reading

Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes receives the second Aporta prize

The Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, member of IMPACT Centre of Competence Executive Board, has received the second Aporta prize in 2017 for its project “Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library, a new approach to digital libraries”. The prize is promoted by Spanish Government through the Department of Information Society and Digital Agenda, the public entity … Continue reading