Tag: Digitisation
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"
How to maximise usage of digital collections
(Reblogged from Research in KB blog: http://researchkb.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/how-to-maximise-usage-of-digital-collections/) Libraries want to understand the researchers who use their digital collections and researchers want to understand the nature of these collections better. The seminar ‘Mining digital repositories’ brought them together at the Dutch Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) on 10-11 April, 2014,
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.
Cost estimation for 100% postcorrection
Which will be the cost estimation for a project pursuing 100% post correction of OCR in the full text offered to the users (based on an average book of 200-300 pages)? An example is the Gutenberg project (http://www.gutenberg.org/). Has your institution experience on this service?