The DATeCH 2017 schedule is already online. For more information, visit http://ddays.digitisation.eu/schedule/

Satellite workshops

9:00 – 16:30 The journey from physical to digital and advancements in culture heritage digitisation

9:00 – 18:00 TRACER tutorial for computational text reuse detection

13:00 – 17:00 TextGrid user workshop

9:00 – 16:30 Handwritten Text Recognition – Transkribus Workshop (project READ)

13:00 – 17:00 PoCoTo user workshop

9:00 – 17:00 IMPACT Members Meeting (only for IMPACT members)

Main conference

8:30: Registration

9:00 – 9:15: Conference Opening

9:15 – 10:45: Session 1. Transcription
(Chaired by Sinai Rusinek)

Jesper Zedlitz and Norbert Luttenberger. 750 Volunteers Transcribing 31,000 Pages with 8.5 million Entries Online – an Evaluation
Enrique Manjavacas and Peter Petre. Enabling Annotation of Historical Corpora in an Asynchronous Collaborative Environment
Manuel Burghardt and Sebastian Spanner. Allegro: User-centered Design of a Tool for the Crowdsourced Transcription of Handwritten Music Scores
Jesper Zedlitz and Norbert Luttenberger. Enhancing Human-Transcribed Records by Using OCR

10:45 – 11:15: Coffee break

11:15 – 13:15 Session 2. Natural Language Processing
(Chaired by Klaus Schulz)

Filip Graliński, Rafał Jaworski, Łukasz Borchmann and Piotr Wierzchoń. The RetroC challenge: how to guess the publication year of a text?
Catalina Maranduc, Cătălin Mititelu and Radu Simionescu. Parsing Romanian Specialized Dictionaries Structured in Nests
Markus Paluch, Gabriela Rotari, David Steding, Maximilian Weß, Maria Moritz and Marco Büchler. Analysis of part-of-speech tagging of historical German texts
Alessio Salomoni. Dependency Parsing on Late-18th-Century German Aesthetic Writings. A Preliminary Inquiry into Schiller and F. Schlegel.
Candela Gustavo, Maria Pilar Escobar Esteban and Borja Navarro-Colorado. In search of Poetic Rhythm: Poetry retrieval trough text and metre

13:15 – 14:00: Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30: Session 3. OCR and Postprocessing
(Chaired by Neil Fitzgerald)

Florian Fink, Klaus U. Schulz and Uwe Springmann. Profiling of OCR’ed Historical Texts Revisited
Alicia González Martínez, Tillmann Feige and Thomas Eich. Clear-cut methodology for Arabic OCR and post-correction with low technical skilled annotators
Harald Hammarström, Shafqat Virk and Markus Forsberg. Poor Man’s OCR Post-Correction: Unsupervised Recognition of Variant Spelling Applied to a Multilingual Document Collection
Manuel Ayuso. OCR of a mixed corpus: early printings and manuscripts of Martianus Capella’s work

15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30 Session 4. Natural Language Processing on Latin and Greek
(Chaired by Greta Franzini)

Marco Budassi and Marco Passarotti. The Impact of Unassimilated Loanwords on Latin Lexicon. A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
Corien Bary, Peter Berck and Iris Hendrickx. A Memory-Based Lemmatizer for Ancient Greek
Herbert Lange. Implementation of a Latin Grammar in Grammatical Framework
Eleonora Litta, Marco Passarotti and Paolo Ruffolo. Node Formation. Using Networks to Inspect Productivity in Affixal Derivation in Classical Latin

17:30 – 18:15 Poster session

Jim Salmons. Ground Truth & Softalk Magazine: Using Aletheia Web Edition to do FactMiners’ Text-mining
Cătălina Mărănduc, Augusto Perez and Victoria Bobicev. Building a Corpus to Study the Historical and Geographical Variation of Romanian Language
Fotios Fitsilis, Thomas Saalfeld and Carsten Schwemmer. Content reconstruction of parliamentary questions through a combination of meta-data with an OCR process
Karen Thöle. Digital means for the presentation and evaluation of a 15th century liturgical book
So Miyagawa, Kirill Bulert and Marco Büchler. Running OCR on Coptic
Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky. Print-Page Number to “Leaf” ID Mapping in Support of eResearch and Machine-Learning at the Internet Archive

19:00 Dinner

8:30: Registration

9:00 – 10:30 Session 5. Infrastructure and Linked Open Data
(Chaired by Tomasz Parkola)

Péter Király. Towards an extensible measurement of metadata quality
Christophe Onambélé, Matyáš Kopp, Marco Passarotti and Jiří Mírovský. Converting Latin Treebank Data into SQL Database for Query Purposes
Thierry Declerck and Lisa Schäfer. Porting past classification schemes for narratives to a Linked Data Framework
Simone Rebora. A Software Pipeline for the Reception of Italian Literature in Nineteenth-Century England. Preliminary Testing

10:30 – 10:45 Best Paper Award Ceromony

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45 Session 6. Digitisation & Layout Analysis
(Chaired by Apostolos Antonacopoulos)

Christian Reul, Uwe Springmann and Frank Puppe. LAREX – A semi-automatic open-source Tool for Layout Analysis and Region Extraction on Early Printed Books
Svetlana Cojocaru, Malahov Ludmila and Alexandru Colesnicov. Digitization of Old Romanian Texts Printed in the Cyrillic Script
Christian Clausner, Justin Hayes, Apostolos Antonacopoulos and Stefan Pletschacher. Unearthing the Recent Past: Digitising and Understanding Statistical Information from Census Tables
Christian Reul, Marco Dittrich and Martin Gruner. Case Study of a highly automated Layout Analysis and OCR of an incunabulum: ‘Der Heiligen Leben’ (1488)

12:45 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 15:00 Session 7. Spatial Analysis
(Chaired by Marco Büchler)

Rebecca Benefiel, Sara Sprenkle, Holly Sypniewski and Jamie White. Ancient Graffiti Project: Geo-Spatial Visualization and Search Tools for Ancient Handwritten Inscriptions
Gustavo Candela, Maria Pilar Escobar Esteban and Manuel Marco-Such. Semantic Enrichment on Cultural Heritage collections: A case study using geographic information
Mariona Coll Ardanuy and Caroline Sporleder. Weakly-supervised toponym disambiguation in historical documents using semantic and geographic features
Kimmo Kettunen and Teemu Ruokolainen. Names, Right or Wrong: Named Entities in an OCRed Historical Finnish Newspaper Collection

15:00 – 15:30: Coffee break

15:30 – 16:30 Final Panel