[posted upon request]
On 6-7 April the first IMPACT Conference on ‘OCR in Mass Digitisation – Challenges between Full Text, Imaging and Language’ will take place at the KB – National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague.
The conference programme with additional information on the speakers is now available from the project website (http://www.impact-project.eu/news/ic2009/). Highlights include:
-
Many Hands Make Light Work: Collaborative OCR Text Correction in Australian Historic Newspapers by Rose Holley (National Library of Australia)
-
Future Challenges for OCR Technology by Claus Gravenhorst (CCS)
-
The Context of IMPACT by Ms. Patricia Manson, Head of Unit ‘Cultural heritage and technology enhanced learning’ of the European Commission (tentative)
-
Measuring the OCR Accuracy across The British Library 2 Million Page Newspaper Archive by Simon Tanner (King’s College London)
And from the IMPACT project:
-
Introduction to IMPACT by Hildelies Balk (KB)
-
Library challenges for mass digitisation by Astrid Verheusen (KB)
-
Adaptive OCR by Asaf Tzadok (IBM)
-
A User Friendly Platform for Document Image Enhancement and Segmentation by Basilis Gatos (NCSR)
-
Language Technology for Improving OCR on Historical Texts by Klaus Schulz (LMU)
-
Digital Restoration and Layout Analysis: Challenges and IMPACT by Apostolos Antonacopoulos (PRIMA, University of Salford)
-
Historical Lexicon Building and How it Improves Access to Text by Katrien Depuydt (INL)
-
Decision Support Tools by Neil Fitzgerald (BL)
Registration is still possible at a fee of €110,-
IMPACT is a European project that aims to speed up the process and enhance the quality of mass digitisation in Europe. The IMPACT research programme will significantly improve digital access to historical printed text through the development and use of innovative Optical Character Recognition software and linguistic technologies.
IMPACT will also build capacity in mass digitisation across Europe. The fifteen partners (seven libraries, six research institutes and two private sector companies) collectively constitute a Centre of Competence that will share best practice and expertise with the cultural heritage communities in Europe.
If you would like to be added to the IMPACT mailing list to stay updated on the project’s progress, please send a request to impact@kb.nl
