Digitisation Archives - IMPACT Centre of Competence

EC Public consultation on opportunities offered by digital technologies for the culture heritage sector

The European Commission has launched a public consultation in order to evaluate the Recommendation of 27 October 2011 on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation. This is a very important consultation for Cultural Heritage institutions and researchers and practitioners related to digitisation field since the results may affect the funding … Continue reading

IMPACT CLARIN K-Centre in digitisation (IMPACT-CKC)

K(nowledge)-centres are important components of the CLARIN Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure, as these are the places where people from within and outside the CLARIN community can get access to specialized knowledge and expertise in many fields. At this moment CLARIN has 16 K-centres, covering a variety of languages (and language families), modalities, data types, technologies and … Continue reading

ScanTailor, new tool at IMPACT Demonstrator platform

Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It gives the ability of: splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, binarising, among others features. The provided input are raw scans, and it will provode pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file as an output. Scan Tailor is licensed under Free Software, General … Continue reading

New IMPACT website

In IMPACT we are proud to present our brand new website with new appearance! Now, our content is easier to reach from the homepage just with one click.

New version release of LIMB Capture

The IMPACT Centre of Competence member company, i2S DIGIBOOK, has just released a new version of their capture software LIMB.

IMPACT Centre of Competence in IFLA WLIC 2017

The IMPACT Centre of Competence, represented by its Executive Board member Elisabeth Freyre (BnF), will be present at the 83rd edition of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2017,

OCR/NER workshop at the DH Summer School (Leuven, 8 September)

In the course of 2014, colleagues from various divisions of the University Library of KU Leuven (Belgium) were involved in testing tools for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and NER (Named Entity Recognition), developed in the framework of the Support action Centre for Competence in Digitisation (Succeed).

Kick-off workshop of the IMPACT-OPF MOOC on digitisation and digital preservation

The Impact Centre of Competence and Open Preservation foundation has organized the ‘Kick-off workshop of the IMPACT-OPF MOOC on digitisation and digital preservation’, that will take place September, 18th, in Poznan (Poland) during the 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries.

3- 2nd edition Succeed Awards

The 2nd edition of the Succeed Awards recognised the successful evaluation and take-up of text digitisation tools implemented by the external libraries collaborating with the Succeed project. The awards were delivered during the Succeed Final Conference, that took place in the Bibliotèque national de France, in Paris, last 28th of November.

4-Succeed in digitisation. Spreading excellence. The future of digitisation: sustainability & roadmapping

After the lunch break, the conference continued with the second block: ‘The future of digitisation: sustainability and roadmapping’. This block was introduced by Alicia Blaya, WP7 leader, who provided an overview of this WP and introduced the following sessions. Tomasz Parkola, leader of WP4 presented the highlights of this WP presenting best practices in the … Continue reading