Author: Silvia García
The University of Guadalajara will coordinate the Latin American chapter of IMPACT
The University of Guadalajara has joined the Center of Competence in Digitisitation as a Premium member. It is the first institution in Latin America to become a member of IMPACT.
The Swiss Federal Archives become a new Impact member
The Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) have joined the Centre of Competence Impact. With the addition of this institution are already 39 members that make up this international organization dedicated to the research and development of tools for digitizing texts and historical documents.
Kick-off workshop of the IMPACT-OPF MOOC on digitisation and digital preservation
The Impact Centre of Competence and Open Preservation foundation has organized the ‘Kick-off workshop of the IMPACT-OPF MOOC on digitisation and digital preservation’, that will take place September, 18th, in Poznan (Poland) during the 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries.
3rd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing
The 3rd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing – HIP’15 will take place on August 22, 2015, the day before ICDAR at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Gammarth (Tunisia) on the border of the Mediterranean Sea.
The European Commission has rated as ‘Excellent’ the Succeed project results
The final evaluation of the Succeed project took place yesterday, 19th of February, at the University of Alicante during a meeting of the committee of experts appointed by the European Commission (EC) with the Succeed consortium members, formed by the University of Alicante, the Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes Foundation, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the Instituut voor … Continue reading "The European Commission has rated as ‘Excellent’ the Succeed project results"
ENeL TRAINING SCHOOL 2015: ‘Standard tools and methods for retro-digitising dictionaries’
Funded by COST Action IS 1305 the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa is hosting the first ‘European Network of e-Lexicography’ Training School, in Lisbon, from 6th to 19th of July. COST Action IS1305 invites researchers in countries participating in COST to submit applications for the Training School. Retro-digitisation … Continue reading "ENeL TRAINING SCHOOL 2015: ‘Standard tools and methods for retro-digitising dictionaries’"
New Interoperability Framework version
The Impact Centre of Competence has just launched a new version of its Interoperability Framework tool, that includes important improvements. This tool has been developed by the Succeed Project, a support action funded by the European Union, that promotes the take up and validation of research results in mass digitisation, with a focus on textual … Continue reading "New Interoperability Framework version"
Take-up of tools within the Succeed project: Implementation of the INL Lexicon Service in Delpher.nl
Delpher is a joint initiative of the Meertens Institute of Research and documentation of Dutch language and culture, the university libraries of Amsterdam (UvA), Groningen, Leiden and Utrecht, and the National Library of the Netherlands, to bring together the otherwise fragmented access to digitized historical text corpora.
The Succeed Project comes to an end
The Succeed project, funded by the European Union, formally ended last December 31, when all its objectives have been achieved. Succeed has promoted the uptake of digitisation tools: 19 tools have been validated at 13 European libraries.
3- 2nd edition Succeed Awards
The 2nd edition of the Succeed Awards recognised the successful evaluation and take-up of text digitisation tools implemented by the external libraries collaborating with the Succeed project. The awards were delivered during the Succeed Final Conference, that took place in the Bibliotèque national de France, in Paris, last 28th of November.