{"id":2589,"date":"2015-02-20T15:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T13:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/blog\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2015-02-20T15:32:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T13:32:48","slug":"european-commission-rated-excellent-succeed-project-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/?p=2589","title":{"rendered":"The European Commission has rated as ‘Excellent’ the Succeed project results"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0<\/a>consortium members, formed by the University of Alicante, the Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes Foundation, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, the Fraunhofer IAIS, the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, the University of Salford, the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France and the British Library. The meeting was chaired by Cristina Maier, Succeed Project Officer from the European Commission.<\/p>\n

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\"DSC_0554_2_p\"Succeed has been funded by the European Union to promote the take up and validation of research results in mass digitisation, with a focus on textual content. During the period 2013-2014,\u00a0 Succeed has organized seven conferences, it has managed the integration of many tools in 13 European libraries and it has created reports, analysis, and recommendations to improve efficiency in the production of digital content, among other achievements.<\/p>\n

Summary of project results<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the project life span (January 2013-December 2014), Succeed has produced the following outputs:<\/p>\n

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  1. Five improved releases of the Impact Interoperable Platform which integrated 20 new software tools.The platform (Figure 1) currently supports the online testing of 40 tools with simpler input\/output operations and the users do not need to install software in their computers (a task which often leads to difficulties, for example, owing to incompatibilities or dependencies with other software packages installed).\n

    The possibility to execute workflows has been added to the demonstration platform<\/a> so that the user can define multistage processes (even processes involving input from multiple sub-processes) when several tools operate on the input.<\/p>\n

    The latest releases provide enhanced usability: for example, simple drag-and-drop operations are possible and the user can simply select the input file or folder in a very intuitive manner.<\/p>\n

    The interoperable platform has been deployed in and integrated into the Impact Centre of Competence website (www.digitisation.eu<\/a>) for a more effective dissemination and reinforced sustainability.<\/p>\n

    The current version of the platform provides access to the open data-sets created by the Impact project –250,000 high-resolution images and 30,000 ground truth files– with the recent addition of a specific viewer which allows the complete collection to be navigated.<\/p>\n

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    Figure 1:<\/strong> Interoperable platform.<\/caption>\n
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  2. A survey with nearly 260 useful tools and resources for text digitisation has been compiled and published online<\/a>. This online catalogue (integrated in the Impact Centre website, as shown in Figure 2 supports the filtering of tools and resources by their type and target language.\n
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    Figure 2:<\/strong> The search interface to the survey of tools.<\/caption>\n
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  3. Over 20 tools in the above catalogue have been selected for their validation –with the active assistance of Succeed– in the productive environments of 13 libraries:\n