Category: Succeed
The digitization of cultural heritage is the main topic during Digitisation Days
The Succeed project and the Impact Centre of Competence co-organise the Digitisation Days, with the participation of experts all over the world and also of the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. International experts in digitisation will meet at the National Library of Spain next May 19th and 20th.
Digitisation tools at Succeed
The Succeed project invites you to add your tools to our “Overview on available tools for text digitisation“. This overview gathers about 219 different tools for image enhancement, segmentation, OCR engines, OCR post-correction and enrichment, lexicon building, evaluation, etc. To add your tools, you just need to create an account. Succeed supports the validation of digitisation … Continue reading "Digitisation tools at Succeed"
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.
Map of the European digitisation landscape
We invite you to add your initiative to the Map of the European digitisation landscape a project that has been developed by Succeed, which aims to identify active projects, centres of competence, networks and any other initiatives to help pinpoint stakeholders, future needs and options for the exploitation of digitised content.
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"
New Project Proposals Corner
Succeed, throught Impact Centre of Competence, has launched the Project Proposals Corner, a gateway to information and advice on undertaking new digitisation projects. In this new space, you can find the latest news on open EU calls, info-days, collaborative initiatives, and events, as well as information on funding opportunities (self-financing, public, public-private partnerhip or private … Continue reading "New Project Proposals Corner"
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"
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and the Centre Centre d’Études Supérieurs de la Renaissance win the Succeed Awards
Congratulations to the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (University of Saint John’s, Collegeville , USA), and the Centre d’Études Supérieurs de la Renaissance (Tours , France ), winners of the Succeed Awards. The Succeed Awards recognise and foster excellence in digitisation, especially among programs focused on historical texts. The Spanish company Tecnilógica and The London Metropolitan Archive have been awarded with … Continue reading "The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and the Centre Centre d’Études Supérieurs de la Renaissance win the Succeed Awards"
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.