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GW4 Archives: exploring UK Medical Heritage Library and Historical Texts as data

In recent years hack-days have been all the rage and have proved a good vehicle for interactions between people who normally might not work together. In academia there has been a trend towards running so-called ‘labs’. The word implies experimentation; hack-day tends to imply coding (it can be experimental!), whereas ‘lab’ suggests that it can […]

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New Jisc commission to Visualise Medical History

Jisc will shortly be commissioning a project entitled Visualising Medical History as part of the wider work around the UK Medical Heritage Library. This post explains the rationale behind the project and provides practical details. The UK Medical Heritage Library is making 15 million pages of 19th Century medical texts available digitally in one searchable collection for the […]

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Final IMPACT Conference on OCR, October 2011, The Hague

The final conference of the IMPACT project will take place on 24-25 October 2011 at the British Library in London, with the title: “Digitisation & OCR: Better, faster, cheaper. Solutions of the IMPACT Centre of Competence and future challenges” The IMPACT Project (Improving Access to Text) started on 1st January 2008 with the aim to […]

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Challenging our understanding of Digitisation

At the forthcoming Developer Happiness Days one of the sessions planned to take place will be exploring a DIY digitisation workflow: Taking you from the act of scanning images and objects, learning how to process and edit them with software like ocrupus, blender and OpenCV, storing and manipulating them online and finally, through to printing […]

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OCR for the mass digitisation of textual materials

A workshop was held at the University of Bath on 24th September 2009, looking at some of the current issues in using Optical Character Recognition for digitisation, organised in the context of the EU Impact project. Videos, slideshows, notes and questions from the day are now all available from the workshop webpages

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Workshop: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for the mass digitisation of textual materials: Improving Access to Text

24 September 2009 – UKOLN, University of Bath http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/ocr-2009/ FREE one-day workshop for * Collection holders in HE and Cultural Heritage organisations * Users of digitised content for teaching, learning and research This workshop is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of a series of workshops & seminars on Achievements & […]

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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 […]

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Creating Keywords Automatically

There’s an awful lot of interesting ideas to unpack in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) resource mentioned in a previous posting. For a start, there is novel to addition to showing results by showing the image reproduction for a search results as well as the OCR’d transcription. There’s the whole range of partners involved in […]

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Nineteenth-Century resources – Evolution or Revolution?

Members of the JISC team attended a conference to launch the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse): a free, online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers. The conference was interesting for a number of reasons, not least because it is in a excellent model for getting groups of end-users involved in discussing and using such resources […]

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The challenges of “useful” OCR

The National Archive’s digitisation project, British Governance in the 20th century – Cabinet Papers, 1914-1975, has been grappling with issues of “useful” OCR. It might be stating the obvious, but accurate OCR is as useful as the search results it produces. If OCRd text consistently misspells particularly relevant key words for retrieving certain documents, than […]