Digitisation Days round table


During the Digitisation Days, on 20 May, the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) hosted an interesting and fruitful Round table workshop on the future of research and funding in digitization and the possible roles of Centres of Competence.

DATeCH 5th Session – Enrichment & Poster session


After the Succeed Awards ceremony and the lunch break, the DATeCH conference continued in the afternoon with its 5th session, called Enrichment. This session was chaired by Stoyan Mihov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).

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.

Round Table: Future Research for the Digital library


Join our creative, Round Table workshop on Tuesday morning, 20th May, 9.00-11.00, to shape future research and funding in digitisation and how Centres of Competence can support these objectives in cooperation with researchers and cultural heritage institutions.

DATeCH conference and Digitisation Days


The Impact Centre of Competence and Succeed are pleased to invite you to their Digitisation Days, a major event in the field of text digitisation. The Digitisation Days are a meeting point for librarians, researchers and companies to present an up-to-date vision of the most recent advances in technology for the digitisation of text, to showcase successful experiences in their application, … Continue reading "DATeCH conference and Digitisation Days"

Open Humanities Awards


The second round of the Open Humanities Awards  will run from 30 April until 30 May 2014. The Awards are cordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation and are part of the DM2E project. There are €20,000 worth of prizes on offer in two dedicated tracks: Open track: for projects that either use open content, open data … Continue reading "Open Humanities Awards"