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Funding Text and data mining

Introduction to Text Mining on Digital Content

The JISC digitisation team is currently planning an international grant competition to look at the exploiting text mining methodologies for digitised content. Provisionally called the Million Books Challenge, the competition will see how analysis of large corpora of texts, images or other digital material can open up new avenues for research. Alastair Dunning gave an […]

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Audio-Visual e-learning events

Learning on Screen 2009 – Call for Papers

The Learning on Screen Conference 2009 will be held at The Wellcome Collection (183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE) on 7th and 8th April 2009. This annual conference was established by the Society for Screen-Based Learning and focuses on the delivery of learning and research with moving image and sound – be it broadcasting, web […]

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Europe portals

Portal for European heritage available online (sort of)

The European Union’s Europeana portal project was launched yesterday, offering user access to a wealth of cultural heritage content, harvested from the continent’s museums, archives and libraries. There has been some scepticism about the long-term success of the project, especially in regards to its sustainability model and it’s ability to deflect users away from Google […]

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Jisc digitisation programmes Projects 2006-2009

Of war, cartoons, eggs, and more…

Cartoons are a very effective medium not only to comment on the social, political and historical events of our times but also for their power to stay in people’s hearts forever, thus recalling a particular event. One of the many contributors to the Great War Archive, part of the First World War Poetry Digital Archive, […]

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Europe events OCR

European Conference on OCR and Mass Digitisation

From the IMPACT project, a European Union project which is aiming to create a centre of excellent for the digitisation of textual cultural heritage Introduction On 6 and 7 April 2009 the IMPACT project will organise a conference on OCR in mass digitisation projects. This conference will focus on exchanging views with other researchers and […]