Call for papers: Multilinguality in historical documents


Multilinguality in historical documents -challenges and solutions for digital humanities (MHist) . 7 July, 2014 Lausanne, Switzerland Full-day Workshop organised in conjunction with the Digital Humanities 2014 Conference Workshop endorsed by the ACL-SIGHUM Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities

Working together to improve text digitisation techniques


2nd Succeed hackathon at the University of Alicante Is there anyone out there still thinking that a hackathon is a malicious break-in? Far from it. It is the best way for developers and researchers to get together and work on new tools and innovations. The2nd developers workshop / hackathon organised on 10-11 April by the Succeed Project was a case … Continue reading "Working together to improve text digitisation techniques"

Digitisation Days – Call for participation


What are the Digitisation Days?

Succeed Hackathon at the University of Alicante


On the 10th and 11th of April 2014 at the University of Alicante, the Succeed project held a hackathon whose aim was to look at improving the state-of-the-art open-source tools for the digitisation of textual content such as books and newspapers.

Digital Library Conference


The 15th edition of the Digital Library Conference will be held at the Ski & Wellness Residence Družba, in Slovakia, from the 1st to the 3rd of April, 2014. On its 15th occurrence, the Digital Library Conference will cover topics such as best practices in digitisation; presentation of digital content and services based on digital content; mobile digital … Continue reading "Digital Library Conference"

iConference 2014 Workshop. Berlin, March 4th, 2014.


Digital Collection Contexts: Intellectual and Organizational Functions at Scale http://pro.europeana.eu/web/network/europeana-tech/-/wiki/Main/iConference2014 What are digital collections and how are they to be accessed? This workshop organized by Europeana Pro addresses also the information needs of scholars and aspects of international interoperability.

Faster, smarter rand richer 2014. Reshaping the library catalogue. International conference.


Traditional library catalogues serve to locate printed publications. The advance of electronic publications and digitisation is changing the way users want to locate and access publications. This brings into question the role of the catalogue.

Virtual Research Community for the Preservation of DCH – Vilnius, November 7th, 2013


The Impact Centre of Competence and the Succeed project will be represented by Hildelies Balk (Chair of the Executive Board of Impact and member of the Succeed General Assembly).

IMPACT Final Conference – Blog-index


The whole conference was blogged and photographed with presentations uploaded to Slideshare and videos to Vimeo. These are also embedded within the blogs on this site. This post contains direct links to all posts made at the Final Conference.  Please do feel free to add comments or thoughts below the posts.

IMPACT Final Conference – Research Parallel Sessions Brief Summary


Parallel Session 1: Research was dedicated to presentations and discussions around the state of the art research tools for document analysis developed via the IMPACT Project. As you might guess from the slides below, the information packed into these presentations could fill a whole new two-day conference!  But for now, a brief summary will have to suffice and … Continue reading "IMPACT Final Conference – Research Parallel Sessions Brief Summary"