{"id":12613,"date":"2017-04-17T13:48:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T11:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/?p=12613"},"modified":"2017-05-22T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T11:22:20","slug":"ddays-datech-2017-call-for-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/?p=12613","title":{"rendered":"DDays &#038; DATeCH 2017 Call for participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What are the Digitisation Days?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Digitisation Days aim 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 and to explore the challenges for the near future of digitisation. It comprises the <\/span><b>DATeCH International Conference<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that is conceived as forum to present, discuss and showcase latest techniques in digitisation and related fields.<\/span><!--more--><br \/>\nThe Digitisation Days and the DATeCH International Conference are supported by the Impact Centre of Competence and organised by the G\u00f6ttingen State and University Library and the University of G\u00f6ttingen.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Where and when will they take place?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Digitisation Days will take place in G\u00f6ttingen at the facilities of the Nieders\u00e4chsische Staats- und Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek G\u00f6ttingen, Historical Building (Papendiek 14, 37073 G\u00f6ttingen) on 1-2 June 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Why should I attend the Digitisation<\/b><b> Days<\/b><b>?<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Become aware of <\/span><b>new technology <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the digitisation of textual content.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Influence <\/span><b>future trends<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in digitisation: meet researchers, leading companies, and service providers and discuss your requirements.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participate in the<\/span><b> discussions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about the future of digitisation. Experts and representatives of the European Commission will share their vision. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Network and build <\/span><b>new connections<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with representatives of libraries, companies and institutions involved in digitisation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><strong> <\/strong><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See the list of accepted papers at<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/ddays.digitisation.eu\/datech-2017\/accepted-papers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/ddays.digitisation.eu\/datech-2017\/accepted-papers\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><b>Satellite workshops<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On May 30th &#8211; 31st, the following workshops will take place. The registration for these workshops is independent of the conference registration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The journey from physical to digital and advancements in culture heritage digitisation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May 30th, 2017, 9 :00AM \u2013 4:30 PM<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This two-part workshop will introduce the basics of the digitisation lifecycle with emphasis on workflows and best practice, and facilitate a discussion about optimisation of the end-to-end digitisation process to increase scalability and improve the quality and usability of the digitised assets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>TRACER tutorial for computational text reuse detection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">30th May 2017, 9 AM \u2013 6 PM<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tutorial builds on eTRAP\u2019s research activities, most of which deploy our TRACER machine. TRACER is a suite of algorithms aimed at investigating text reuse in different corpora, be those prose, poetry, in Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek or medieval German. TRACER provides researchers with statistical information about the texts under investigation and its integrated reuse visualiser, TRAViz, displays the reuses in a more readable format for further study.<\/span><strong><strong> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TextGrid user workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May 30th 2017 1PM \u2013 5 PM<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TextGrid is a virtual research environment that provides various tools and services for digital humanists. The workshop will initiate the participants in the use of the TextGridLab, a free portable software, and the basic components of its infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Handwritten Text Recognition \u2013 Transkribus Workshop (project READ)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May 31st, 2017, 9:00 AM &#8211; 5 PM<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transkribus (https:\/\/transkribus.eu\/Transkribus\/) is a platform for the automated recognition, transcription and searching of handwritten historical documents. Transkribus is part of the EU-funded Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ) (http:\/\/read.transkribus.eu\/) project. The core mission of the READ project is to make archival material more accessible through the development and dissemination of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and other cutting-edge technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>PoCoTo user workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May 31, 2017 1 PM \u2013 5 PM<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PoCoTo (PostCorrectionTool) is an open source tool for the interactive post-correction of OCR\u2018ed data that has be developed by the CIS of the LMU Munich. This workshop will teach the participants both the basic usage of PoCoTo for the correction of OCR results and more advanced topics like the usage of the language profiler for the generation of correction suggestions that take historical spelling variation of the document language into account.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>How can I register?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please, visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ddays.digitisation.eu\/registration\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/ddays.digitisation.eu\/registration\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/uni_org_logo_color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3154\" src=\"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/uni_org_logo_color-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"uni_org_logo_color\" width=\"119\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SUB_Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3153\" src=\"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SUB_Logo-300x40.png\" alt=\"SUB_Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/cropped-LogoWeb11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1755\" src=\"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/cropped-LogoWeb11.png\" alt=\"cropped-LogoWeb11.png\" width=\"157\" height=\"71\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the Digitisation Days? 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