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Analyse und Nachkorrektur von OCR-Ergebnissen
Ulrich Reffle, who works at the Centre of Information and Language Processing of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, spoke about document-centric analysis and error detection, which can enable faster and easier correction of OCRed historical texts.
Entscheidungsfindung in der Digitalisierung durch experimentelles Workflow-Design
Sven Schlarb from the Austrian National Library talked about the challenges of integrating the 22 software tools developed within IMPACT, and how they were met in the IMPACT Interoperability Framework (IIF), a workflow design and management platform.
Vorstellung des Projekts IMPACT
Hildelies Balk – Pennington de Jongh from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, and project leader of the IMPACT project, opened the day by introducing the project, its aims and goals, and giving an outlook on the Centre of Competence, which will sustain the project’s developments into the future.
Begrüßung, Überblick über die Veranstaltung
After a short greeting by Klaus Kempf, head of the Department of Acquisition, Collection Development and Cataloguing at the Bavarian State Library (BSB), Fedor Bochow presented the goals and programme of the day.
Free IMPACT Conference Tickets for Students
5 free tickets available for ‘Guest Bloggers’ If you are a student and would like to attend the IMPACT conference for free – then come and help us by working as a ‘guest blogger’. On the other hand, if you are not a student, but know someone who is…..please tell them about this offer.
Introducing the IMPACT Centre of Competence
At the IMPACT Demo Day of 12 July 2011 at The British Library, Aly Conteh outlined the set up of the IMPACT Centre of Competence (CoC) for Digitisation. This CoC is about sharing best practice and tools – it will become a one-stop shop for anybody involved in the digitisation of historic text.
The Centre of Competence with Aly Conteh
Making the Digitisation of Text – Faster, Better & Cheaper The IMPACT Centre of Competence is about sharing best practice and tools – it will become a one-stop shop for anybody involved in the digitisation of historic text.
Rouen OCR workshop: more presentations online
The OCR workshop in Rouen concluded with talks on OCR and Typography, OCR Evaluation & Verification and Linguistic Resources for OCR. All presentations are now available from http://www.chu-rouen.fr/plair/doku.php?id=evenements: two presentations from IMPACT staff are inserted below. IMPACT Workshop : 09. OCR at BnF : history, production, projects, research By Geneviève Cron from LITIS Laboratory on … Continue reading "Rouen OCR workshop: more presentations online"
User Specification
The first slot of the day was dedicated to User Specification. Hildelies Balk outlined the challenges of the libraries for OCR of historic texts, and the solutions that IMPACT will provide. Clemens Neudecker showed the Interoperability Framework with the tools for evaluation, which led to lively discussion. We can expect a new influx of tools … Continue reading "User Specification"
Toekomst van IMPACT: Centre of Competence – Hildelies Balk #impactdemo
Hildelies Balk gives the final presentation of the IMPACT Demo day. She talks about the future of IMPACT: the IMPACT Centre of Competence in Text Digitisation will be launched in the near future. This Centre will make sure the knowledge and results of IMPACT will be sustained and further developed up to three years after … Continue reading "Toekomst van IMPACT: Centre of Competence – Hildelies Balk #impactdemo"