[Corpora-List] Event: „Historische Dokumente auf dem Weg zum digitalen Vol =?utf-8?Q?ltext=E2=80=9C_=E2=80=93_?=Turning Historical Documents into Digital Full Texts

Tue Aug 30 20:12:49 UTC 2011

  „Historische Dokumente auf dem Weg zum digitalen Volltext“ – Turning
  Historical Documents into Digital Full Texts

The Munich DigitiZation Center (MDZ)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 – TurningHistorical Documents into 
Digital Full Texts”.

Starting from different viewpoints, both events will focus on using 
OCRto create digital full texts. You can attend either event separately, 
or both together.

*Please note: **both conferences are German-speaking only!*

    October 11^th – Results of OCR Research: IMPACT Demo Day

Jointly organised by the Munich DigitiZation Center of the Bavarian 
State Library and the Austrian National Library, this Demo Day 
willpresent 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creating searchable full text from historical documents, and show the 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.

    October 12^th – Insights from Practical Experience: OCR, Full Texts
    and Forms of Presentation

Digitisation projects can't just present digital images anymore. 
Userexpectations are increasing steadily, and mobile devices and other 
technological forms of interaction bring their own challenges with them.

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.

Theday 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.

“Insights from Practical Experience: OCR, Full Texts and Forms of 
Presentation”is free of charge, thanks to our sponsors: Abbyy Europe, 
ARPA Data, Image Access, Treventus Mechatronics and Zeutschel.

For more information about the programme and registration, please visit::

_http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de/~lza/impact/index.html?c=info&l=en 
<http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de/%7Elza/impact/index.html?c=info&l=en>_

The deadline for registration is September 25^th. Please remember, the 
events will be *German-speaking only*.

Contact details:

Munich DigitiZation Center(MDZ) Digital Library

Bavarian State Library

Fedor Bochow / Mark-Oliver Fischer

Ludwigstrasse16

80539 Munich

Germany

mdz[at]bsb-muenchen.de

Tel. +49 (0) 89 28638 2295

oder +49 (0) 89 28638 2890

Fax +49 (0) 89 28638 2672

_http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de_

_http://www.bsb-muenchen.de_

Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Marco Büchler

-- 
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 : mbuechler at e-humanities.net
Web   : http://www.asv.informatik.uni-leipzig.de

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