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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…
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i2s DigiBook, DIGIBÍS and the University Library of North Rhine-Westphalia join Impact
The Impact Centre of Competence welcomes its three new members: i2s DigiBook, DIGIBÍS and the Library of the University Library Centre of North Rhine-Westphalia (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen). With these additions, 36 companies and institutions are now part of the Centre of Competence In Digitisation.
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The KU Leuven and the Theatre Documentation Centre, new members of Impact
The Theatre Documentation Centre (CDT) and the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) have joined the Centre of Competence Impact. With these new additions , there are now 33 members in this international organization, which is dedicated to the research and development of tools for digitizing texts and historical documents.
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Diachronic search
As a demonstration of the potential applications of the Impact ground-truth collection, we have implemented a new online service which enables users to perform linguistically enriched queries on a collection of historical texts. The interface is available at http://data.cervantesvirtual.com/blog/diasearch/ and today, it works with the 86 Spanish texts in the Impact-BVC corpus.
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New version of the impact Centre of Competence website
We are happy to let you know that the website of the impact Centre of Competence has been redesigned and restructured to improve navigation and usability. We have also implemented a faceted search in the Tools, Data and Services sections. In this blog you can find a short description of the available pages and the…
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IMPACT– BHL-Europe collaboration
Introduction In late 2010, IMPACT and the Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe (BHL-Europe) got in touch and decided to cooperate: in the area of developing sustainable business models for cultural heritage and in evaluating the success of several IMPACT tools on data from the BHL digital collection
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Development and Use of Computational Lexica for OCR And IR on Historical Documents – A Cross-Language Perspective
In the wake of current mass digitization projects in many libraries around the world, huge amounts of historical books and documents are brought to the web. In the scientific community, the difficult metamorphosis from historical paper documents to searchable electronic documents has drawn considerable attention.
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IMPACT pilot at the KB – Conclusion
In the final months of the IMPACT project in 2012, the KB worked together with one of the current digitisation projects Early Dutch Books Online (EDBO) to research various methods of improving OCR. EDBO is a combined effort between the KB and the university libraries of Leiden and Amsterdam to digitise 2 million pages of books from…
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IMPACT pilot at the KB – Introduction and set-up
In the final months of the IMPACT project in 2012, the KB worked together with one of the current digitisation projects Early Dutch Books Online (EDBO) to research various methods of improving OCR. EDBO is a combined effort between the KB and the university libraries of Leiden and Amsterdam to digitise 2 million pages of…
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IMPACT Project Outcomes event: Expert workshop
After lunch, the participants of the IMPACT Project Outcomes Event split up into two groups. While one group stayed in the Auditorium to hear more about the library experiences of the project, a group of distinguished experts in the fields of OCR, language technology and digital humanities, together with the reviewers and EC project officer…