{"id":2808,"date":"2014-04-16T11:11:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T11:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/blog\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2014-04-16T11:11:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T11:11:01","slug":"the-hill-museum-manuscript-library-and-the-centre-centre-detudes-superieurs-de-la-renaissance-win-the-succeed-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/?p=2808","title":{"rendered":"The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and the Centre Centre d’\u00c9tudes Sup\u00e9rieurs de la Renaissance win the Succeed Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library<\/a> (University of Saint John’s, Collegeville , USA), and the\u00a0Centre d’\u00c9tudes Sup\u00e9rieurs de la Renaissance<\/a>\u00a0(Tours , France ), winners of the Succeed Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Succeed Awards<\/a>\u00a0recognise and foster excellence in\u00a0<\/span>digitisation<\/span>, especially among programs\u00a0focused on historical texts. The Spanish company <\/span>Tecnil\u00f3gica<\/a> and <\/span>The London Metropolitan Archive<\/a>\u00a0have been awarded with Commendations of Merit.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For nearly half a century the\u00a0Hill Museum & Manuscript Library<\/a>\u00a0have been photographing\u00a0manuscript collections across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Southern India, becoming the world leader in photographic conservation of manuscripts. HMML encourages research on manuscripts and the cultures that produced them,\u00a0, as well as on the book arts, traditional and modern religious art, and related fields. HMML sponsors research fellowships and conferences based on its collections.<\/p>\n

The Centre d’\u00c9tudes Sup\u00e9rieurs de la Renaissance<\/a> is committed to producing both high-quality digital editions and facsimile with reliable transcriptions. This activity has led to the development of new open-source tools for layout analysis and transcription.<\/p>\n

Founded in 2003, Tecnil\u00f3gica<\/a> specializes in developing web projects company. Their service is structured around five areas: web solutions, mobility, digital signage, the so called “Martians projects” (especially innovative initiatives), and the development of start-ups.<\/p>\n

The Succeed Awards jury also commended the work done by the London Metropolitan Archive<\/a>\u00a0to digitally restore The Great Parchment Book<\/em>, a seventeenth century volume whose pages were damaged by fire.<\/p>\n

The winners will collect the awards during the ceremony at the Digitisation Days<\/a>, which will take place on 19 and 20 May in Madrid. Present to congratulate the winners will be our prestigious jury including Milagros del Corral, UNESCO; Jill Cousins, Europeana; Frank Frischmuth, Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek; Michael Keller, Stanford University\u00a0Libraries<\/span>; Steven Krauwer, University of Utrecht, and Andrew Prescott, King’s College London.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (University of Saint John’s, Collegeville , USA), and the\u00a0Centre d’\u00c9tudes Sup\u00e9rieurs de la Renaissance\u00a0(Tours , France ), winners of the Succeed Awards. The Succeed Awards\u00a0recognise and foster excellence in\u00a0digitisation, especially among programs\u00a0focused on historical texts. The Spanish company Tecnil\u00f3gica and The London Metropolitan Archive\u00a0have been awarded with … Continue reading “The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and the Centre Centre d’\u00c9tudes Sup\u00e9rieurs de la Renaissance win the Succeed Awards”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,176],"tags":[186,187],"class_list":["post-2808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-succeed","tag-digitisation-days","tag-succeed-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitisation.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}