News
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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.
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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.
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Interviews to Succeed’s Expert Advisory Board
Jill Cousins (Europeana), Michael Keller (Stanford University Library), Milagros del Corral (International Organisations advisor) and Steven Krauwer (Utrecht University) talk about present and future in digitisation in these interviews, that took place during the Digitisation Days ( Madrid, 19 and 20 May 2014).
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Mario Vargas Llosa: “The missions of modern Argonauts are to digitize, preserve and disseminate”
“The missions of modern Argonauts are to digitize, preserve and disseminate”, said Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize winner and president of the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library Foundation, during Digitisation Days, which took place last 20th of May at the Spanish National Library in Madrid.
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Succeed survey on content/tools licensing and innovative usages
The Succeed project is undertaking a survey on the use of licenses in the field of digitisation and on innovative usages of digitised content. The aim of this survey is to gather information about current practices for licensing data, metadata and tools and on new trends in the exploitation of digitised content. This information will help define…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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,