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Tools Evaluation: University Library of KU Leuven

In early 2013, the Library Council of the Humanities and Social Sciences at KU Leuven (Belgium) produced a white paper concerning the role of libraries in digital scholarship (and, particularly, the digital humanities). This white paper described the current services provided by libraries at KU Leuven in the field of digital scholarship, but also discussed … Continue reading

Succeed Project Tools Evaluation: Wielkopolska Digital Library

One of the main objectives of the Succeed project is the evaluation and take-up of tools in a productive environment. To meet this objective, the four libraries of the Succeed consortium and nine external libraries (see the full list of libraries here) selected a minimum of two digitisation tools to perform the evaluation.

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 … Continue reading

Working together to improve text digitisation techniques

2nd Succeed hackathon at the University of Alicante Is there anyone out there still thinking that a hackathon is a malicious break-in? Far from it. It is the best way for developers and researchers to get together and work on new tools and innovations. The2nd developers workshop / hackathon organised on 10-11 April by the Succeed Project was a case … Continue reading

Evaluation Framework and Taverna – with Clemens Neudecker

IMPACT Interoperability Framework (IIF) After seeing so many tools introduced during the day, Clemens now considers how you can pull them all together into a usable service for the mass digitisation and OCR of historic text.