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Introductie door Project Director Hildelies Balk #impactdemo
Hildelies Balk introduces the project. The IMPACT consortium was formed 2007 in the EC Seventh Framework Programme for Research & Development and started on 1 January 2008.
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IMPACT KB Demo Dag is begonnen!
De dag is gestart! De meeste mensen zijn binnen en het afdelingshoofd, tevens waarnemend Algemeen Directeur Hans Jansen opent nu de dag inclusief een premiere van IMPACT The Movie! Later te zien op internet. Veel plezier vandaag! Lotte Wilms
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Live coverage of Dutch IMPACT demo day (KB) on 16 February 2011
This is the first of the IMPACT Demonstration Days in 2011. The events will be held in the language of the hosting institution, so please keep an eye out for a Demonstration near you! Although this event will be held in Dutch you can find the English text of this message below.
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Agenda for KB IMPACT Demo Day now available
The agenda for the KB Demo Day on 16 February is now available for download.Registration is still possible via this form. If you register later than 14 February, please also send an e-mail to the Project Office to confirm your registration.
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End of the workshop!
The workshop wrapped up with a testing Q&A from delegates about the potential uses and availability of the IMPACT Tools. A full account of that session will follow next week, along with videos of each of the presentations.
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Tools for Document Image Analysis
[slideshare id=4138338&doc=bratislavaws-pratikakis-ncsr-imageanalysistoolsnew-100518090539-phpapp02] http://vimeo.com/11833935 Ioannis Pratikakis of the NCSR – National Center for Scientific Research – “Demokritos” now provides a live demo of various image pre-processing tools. By combining various familiar algorithms used to binarise images, an operator can get a good visual idea of which type of binarisation (or combination) will produce the best OCR…
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Overview of the IMPACT Project
Aly Conteh returns to the stage to explain the context in which IMPACT sees itself operating. He explains first of all The British Library’s particular interest in the project: even material that had already been digitised had not always been digitised in such a way as to be accessible, except as an illustrative image. The…
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Second IMPACT Workshop Kick-Off
Alojz Androvic of Univerzitná knižnica v Bratislave (University Library Bratislava) gives a formal welcome to all delegates to this second IMPACT workshop. He explains that the Library is “ninety years young” and therefore still very much in development; he welcomes the opportunity that workshops such as this give him and his institution to learn and…
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Second IMPACT Workshop – two days to go!
The next installment in our series of IMPACT workshops is only two days away, and while the last preparations are taking place to ensure a smooth event, I wanted to tell you what to expect here on the blog: For all those not able to take part in person, we’ll provide ‘live coverage’ from the…
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Impressionen und “Auf Wiedersehen”
The first ever IMPACT Workshop came to a succesful conclusion, as does its coverage here on the blog. Less ‘live’ than we had planned, but still useful, I hope. With some photographic impressions from the event I want to say “Good bye, until next time”. While I can’t say much yet about the next workshop,…