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<h1 class="western" style="margin-top: 0cm;">„Historische Dokumente
auf dem Weg zum digitalen Volltext“ – Turning Historical Documents
into Digital Full Texts</h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB">The Munich
DigitiZation Center (MDZ)</span><span lang="en-GB"> of the
Bavarian State Library invites you to Munich on Tuesday 11
October and Wednesday 12 October, 2011, for two conferences
under the shared title “Historische Dokumente auf dem Weg zum
digitalen Volltext – </span><span lang="en-GB">Turning</span><span
lang="en-GB"> Historical Documents into Digital Full Texts”.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB">Starting from
different viewpoints, both events will focus on using OCR</span><span
lang="en-GB"> to create digital full texts. You can attend
either event separately, or both together.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Please note: </b></span><span
lang="en-GB"><b>both conferences are German-speaking only!</b></span></p>
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<h2 class="western"><span lang="en-GB">October 11</span><sup><span
lang="en-GB">th</span></sup><span lang="en-GB"> – Results of
OCR Research: IMPACT Demo Day </span> </h2>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB">Jointly organised
by the Munich DigitiZation Center of the Bavarian State Library
and the Austrian National Library, this Demo Day will</span><span
lang="en-GB"> present research results and tools from the
EU-funded IMPACT Project (IMProving ACcess to Text). It will
focus on the challenges involved in creating searchable full
text from historical documents, and show the tools and solutions
created by IMPACT to resolve these challenges. It will also
detail how project outputs will be made available once the
project ends (December 2011). The event is open to anyone, but
is mainly aimed at representatives from libraries, museums and
archives.</span></p>
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<h2 class="western"><span lang="en-GB">October 12</span><sup><span
lang="en-GB">th</span></sup><span lang="en-GB"> – Insights
from Practical Experience: OCR, Full Texts and Forms of
Presentation</span></h2>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB">Digitisation
projects can't just present digital images anymore. User</span><span
lang="en-GB"> expectations are increasing steadily, and mobile
devices and other technological forms of interaction bring their
own challenges with them. </span> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB">Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) and searchable full text are therefore
becoming more important. This has consequences for the entire
project workflow - from its initial scoping and the choice of
hardware, to the presentation of the results online. All of
these challenges will be discussed at the conference.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB">The</span><span
lang="en-GB"> day will focus on the results of a number of
full-text digitisation projects, detailing the particular issues
presented by different types of source material. OCR software
solutions will be compared, along with a number of post-capture
processing tools and techniques, including crowdsourcing to
improve OCR. </span> </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<span lang="en-GB">Insights from
Practical Experience: OCR, Full Texts and Forms of Presentation”</span><span
lang="en-GB"> is free of charge, thanks to our sponsors: Abbyy
Europe, ARPA Data, Image Access, Treventus Mechatronics and
Zeutschel.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB">For more
information about the programme and registration, please visit:</span><span
lang="en-GB">:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font color="#0000ff"><u><a
href="http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de/%7Elza/impact/index.html?c=info&l=en">http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de/~lza/impact/index.html?c=info&l=en</a></u></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB">The deadline for
registration is September 25</span><sup><span lang="en-GB">th.</span></sup><span
lang="en-GB"> Please remember, the events will be </span><span
lang="en-GB"><b>German-speaking only</b></span><span
lang="en-GB">.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB">Contact details:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB">Munich
DigitiZation Center</span><span lang="en-GB"> (MDZ) Digital
Library</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB">Bavarian State Library</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB">Fedor Bochow /
Mark-Oliver Fischer</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB">Ludwigstr</span><span
lang="en-GB">asse16</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB">80539 Munich</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB">Germany</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">mdz[at]bsb-muenchen.de</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tel. +49 (0) 89 28638 2295</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">oder +49 (0) 89 28638 2890</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Fax +49 (0) 89 28638 2672</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font color="#ff0000"><u><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de">http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de</a></u></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font color="#ff0000"><u><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bsb-muenchen.de">http://www.bsb-muenchen.de</a></u></font></p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Marco Büchler
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Marco Büchler
Natural Language Processing Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Leipzig
Johannisgasse 26
04109 Leipzig, Germany
Room : 0-17
Phone : 0341 / 97-32257
eMail : <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mbuechler@e-humanities.net">mbuechler@e-humanities.net</a>
Web : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.asv.informatik.uni-leipzig.de">http://www.asv.informatik.uni-leipzig.de</a>
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