Author: Silvia García
Digitisation Days round table
During the Digitisation Days, on 20 May, the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) hosted an interesting and fruitful Round table workshop on the future of research and funding in digitization and the possible roles of Centres of Competence.
Interviews to Succeed’s Expert Advisory Board
Jill Cousins (Europeana), Michael Keller (Stanford University Library), Milagros del Corral (International Organisations advisor) and Steven Krauwer (Utrecht University) talk about present and future in digitisation in these interviews, that took place during the Digitisation Days ( Madrid, 19 and 20 May 2014).
Mario Vargas Llosa: “The missions of modern Argonauts are to digitize, preserve and disseminate”
“The missions of modern Argonauts are to digitize, preserve and disseminate”, said Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize winner and president of the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library Foundation, during Digitisation Days, which took place last 20th of May at the Spanish National Library in Madrid.
The digitization of cultural heritage is the main topic during Digitisation Days
The Succeed project and the Impact Centre of Competence co-organise the Digitisation Days, with the participation of experts all over the world and also of the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. International experts in digitisation will meet at the National Library of Spain next May 19th and 20th.
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 "Digitisation tools at Succeed"
Round Table: Future Research for the Digital library
Join our creative, Round Table workshop on Tuesday morning, 20th May, 9.00-11.00, to shape future research and funding in digitisation and how Centres of Competence can support these objectives in cooperation with researchers and cultural heritage institutions.
Map of the European digitisation landscape
We invite you to add your initiative to the Map of the European digitisation landscape a project that has been developed by Succeed, which aims to identify active projects, centres of competence, networks and any other initiatives to help pinpoint stakeholders, future needs and options for the exploitation of digitised content.
DATeCH conference and Digitisation Days
The Impact Centre of Competence and Succeed are pleased to invite you to their Digitisation Days, a major event in the field of text digitisation. The Digitisation Days are a meeting point for librarians, researchers and companies to present an up-to-date vision of the most recent advances in technology for the digitisation of text, to showcase successful experiences in their application, … Continue reading "DATeCH conference and Digitisation Days"
Open Humanities Awards
The second round of the Open Humanities Awards will run from 30 April until 30 May 2014. The Awards are cordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation and are part of the DM2E project. There are €20,000 worth of prizes on offer in two dedicated tracks: Open track: for projects that either use open content, open data … Continue reading "Open Humanities Awards"
Call for papers: Multilinguality in historical documents
Multilinguality in historical documents -challenges and solutions for digital humanities (MHist) . 7 July, 2014 Lausanne, Switzerland Full-day Workshop organised in conjunction with the Digital Humanities 2014 Conference Workshop endorsed by the ACL-SIGHUM Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities