News
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Swiss National Library, new member of the Impact Centre
We are proud to announce that the Swiss National Library has become member of the Impact Centre of Competence in digitisation.
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New Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre for digital preservation
IFLA is pleased to announce the creation of a new Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre which will focus on digital preservation and digital sustainability. The new PAC Centre is based at the National Library of Poland.
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Tomasz Parkola, new Scientific and Technological Director at the Impact Centre of Competence
Tomasz Parkoła, from Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Centre, has been selected as new Scientific and Technological Director of the Impact Centre of Competence. He succeeds the outgoing Director, Rafael Carrasco, currently Seconded National Expert at the ERC.
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OPF WEBINAR: Pre Commercial Procurement for the long-term Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage
OUTLINE Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) is a competition-like method designed to steer the development of innovative solutions towards concrete public sector needs. These solutions are developed by external suppliers that are awarded a contract through a phased open procurement process. In the last years, the PCP instrument is becoming more and more popular within the public…
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Rafael Carrasco selected as Seconded National Expert in the ERC
The Impact Centre of Competence is pleased to announce that its former Scientific Director, Rafael Carrasco, is now serving the European Research Council Executive Agency as Seconded National Expert in Research Policies. In this commitment, he will contribute to the development of new procedures within the data analysis group to support the strategical decisions by…
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How Can I OCR My Dictionary?
If you are wondering how to OCR a dictionary, Jesse de Does, from the IMPACT CoC Board member Instituut of Nederlandse Lexicologie, gives you some keys at DigiLex.
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Gallica: Travel through 3 million digital documents
Gallica, the BnF digital library, has a new design: new layout, improvements of some research and access functionalities, and new curations of its digital collections, all for the benefit of a large audience.
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ALTO schema version 3.1 available for public use
The ALTO XML Editorial Board is pleased to announce that the ALTO schema version 3.1 is now available for public use. The schema can be found on the website of the The Library of Congress at http://www.loc.gov/standards/alto/v3/alto-3-1.xsd and on Github at https://cdn.rawgit.com/altoxml/schema/master/v3/alto-3-1.xsd.
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BL Digital Scholarship goes Latin
Last year I was invited to visit two important National Libraries in Latin America. There I had the opportunity to meet colleagues working on digital projects in both institutions and share with them our experiences and projects involving access, use, enhancement, interpretation and dissemination of our digital collections.
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Impact Centre of Competence Annual General Meeting – Summary
On December 11th, 2015, the Impact Centre of Competence held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Alicante. This meeting is open to all member of the Centre and it has as objective, apart from designing the vision of the Centre in the next year, to provide our members a forum to share expertise and showcase…