DATeCH International Conference 2016


The International Conference Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage, DATeCH, shall be held in Poznań (Poland). Organised by the Impact Centre of Competence board member and Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), the conference will take place on 6 and 7 October 2016. Save the date!!

Open Source Preservation Workshop – Serving the Cultural Heritage (7 April 2016)


PREFORMA project invites you to the Open Source Preservation Workshop – Serving the Cultural Heritage. Organised by PREFORMA – PREservation FORMAts for culture information/e-archives (http://www.preforma-project.eu/), it is the first in a series of international events planned by this international consortium of technology and content providers.

Workshop Automated Handwritten Text Recognition Transkribus And The ‘Resolutions of the Dutch States-General, Nov. 27th, The Hague


The workshop introduces Transkribus and is organized by Huygens ING, INL and the tranScriptorium project. Transkribus is developed in the EU funded projecttranScriptorium, a research infrastructure for transcribing and automated text recognition of historical documents.

The Impact Centre of Competence at FIL Guadalajara 2015


The Impact Centre of Competence in Digitisation will be present at the next Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL) of Guadalajara, Mexico (28 Nov. – 6 Dec.).

Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes at TPDL2015


Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (FBVMC), founding member and manager of the Impact Centre of Competence, will participate on September 15th in TPDL 2015, organised this year by Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Centre (also founding members of the Centre).

OCR/NER workshop at the DH Summer School (Leuven, 8 September)


In the course of 2014, colleagues from various divisions of the University Library of KU Leuven (Belgium) were involved in testing tools for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and NER (Named Entity Recognition), developed in the framework of the Support action Centre for Competence in Digitisation (Succeed).

10th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016 ) – Call for papers


LREC 2016 – 10th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Grand Hotel Bernardin, PORTOROŽ, SLOVENIA 23-28 May 2016 MAIN CONFERENCE: 25-26-27 MAY 2016 WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS: 23-24-28 MAY 2016 Conference web site: lrec-conf.org/lrec2016/lrec2016.htm Twitter: @LREC2016

Kick-off workshop of the IMPACT-OPF MOOC on digitisation and digital preservation


The Impact Centre of Competence and Open Preservation foundation has organized the ‘Kick-off workshop of the IMPACT-OPF MOOC on digitisation and digital preservation’, that will take place September, 18th, in Poznan (Poland) during the 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries.

3rd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing


The 3rd International Workshop on  Historical Document Imaging and Processing – HIP’15 will take place on August 22, 2015, the day before ICDAR at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Gammarth (Tunisia) on the border of the Mediterranean Sea.

ENeL TRAINING SCHOOL 2015: ‘Standard tools and methods for retro-digitising dictionaries’


Funded by COST Action IS 1305 the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa is hosting the first ‘European Network of e-Lexicography’ Training School, in Lisbon, from 6th to 19th of July. COST Action IS1305 invites researchers in countries participating in COST to submit applications for the Training School. Retro-digitisation … Continue reading "ENeL TRAINING SCHOOL 2015: ‘Standard tools and methods for retro-digitising dictionaries’"