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Begrüßung, Überblick über die Veranstaltung
After a short greeting by Klaus Kempf, head of the Department of Acquisition, Collection Development and Cataloguing at the Bavarian State Library (BSB), Fedor Bochow presented the goals and programme of the day.
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Free IMPACT Conference Tickets for Students
5 free tickets available for ‘Guest Bloggers’ If you are a student and would like to attend the IMPACT conference for free – then come and help us by working as a ‘guest blogger’. On the other hand, if you are not a student, but know someone who is…..please tell them about this offer.
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Introducing the IMPACT Centre of Competence
At the IMPACT Demo Day of 12 July 2011 at The British Library, Aly Conteh outlined the set up of the IMPACT Centre of Competence (CoC) for Digitisation. This CoC is about sharing best practice and tools – it will become a one-stop shop for anybody involved in the digitisation of historic text.
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The Centre of Competence with Aly Conteh
Making the Digitisation of Text – Faster, Better & Cheaper The IMPACT Centre of Competence is about sharing best practice and tools – it will become a one-stop shop for anybody involved in the digitisation of historic text.
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Rouen OCR workshop: more presentations online
The OCR workshop in Rouen concluded with talks on OCR and Typography, OCR Evaluation & Verification and Linguistic Resources for OCR. All presentations are now available from http://www.chu-rouen.fr/plair/doku.php?id=evenements: two presentations from IMPACT staff are inserted below. IMPACT Workshop : 09. OCR at BnF : history, production, projects, research By Geneviève Cron from LITIS Laboratory on…
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User Specification
The first slot of the day was dedicated to User Specification. Hildelies Balk outlined the challenges of the libraries for OCR of historic texts, and the solutions that IMPACT will provide. Clemens Neudecker showed the Interoperability Framework with the tools for evaluation, which led to lively discussion. We can expect a new influx of tools…
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Toekomst van IMPACT: Centre of Competence – Hildelies Balk #impactdemo
Hildelies Balk gives the final presentation of the IMPACT Demo day. She talks about the future of IMPACT: the IMPACT Centre of Competence in Text Digitisation will be launched in the near future. This Centre will make sure the knowledge and results of IMPACT will be sustained and further developed up to three years after…
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Lieke Ploeger over IMPACT Online – #Impactdemo
Useful information on how to find & follow IMPACT through Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, Vimeo etc.! Follow us and help building our knowledge base through the helpdesk! All your input will be used to build the knowledge base. Visit our conference in London where the final results will be shown. More information on the website: http://www.impact-project.eu
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Functional Extension Parser (FEP) – Lotte Wilms #impactdemo
[slideshare id=6971431&doc=feplottewilms-110218053224-phpapp02] De Functional Extension Parser (FEP) is een IMPACT tool voor structurele annotatie van documenten, ontwikkeld door de Universiteit van Innsbruck (UIBK). Er is een regelset gebouwd om bijvoorbeeld paginanummer’s, koptitels en voetnoten te kunnen identificeren. Ook kan de tool de bedrukte tekstgedeelten herkennen of een gelinkte inhoudsopgave maken, wat handig is voor het…
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Interactief postcorrectie systeem – Jesse de Does #impactdemo
Jesse de Does van het INL presenteert nog een manier van postcorrectie: de correctie van meerdere woorden met dezelfde fout. Hier is een speciale postcorrectie tool voor ontwikkeld in IMPACT door de Universiteit van Munchen (LMU). Zonder specifieke verrijking van de tekst kan deze tool een profiel maken van patronen in een tekst, en bijvoorbeeld…