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Date sent: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:03:26 +0100
Send reply to: Lieke Ploeger <Lieke.Ploeger@KB.NL>
From: Lieke Ploeger <Lieke.Ploeger@KB.NL>
Subject: IMPACT Centre of Competence launched!
To: IMPACT-NEWS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Last week the IMPACT Centre of Competence was launched by Mr. Khalil
Rouhana (Director for Digital Content and Cognitive Systems, DG
Information Society and Media, European Commission) at the final
conference of the IMPACT project in London. The IMPACT Centre of
Competence aims to make digitisation of historical printed text in
Europe better, faster, cheaper and provide the tools, services and
mechanisms for further advancement in this field. It will bring
together leading lights involved in all aspects of digitisation and
give invaluable access to a network of experts, research and content
institutions throughout the industry.
The web address of the Centre of Competence os www.digitisation.eu
<http://www.digitisation.eu/>
During the conference some of the key tools developed by the IMPACT
Project were presented, including:
* The innovation of ABBYY FineReader software which has become
industry standard for digitisation in libraries and IBM's novel
Adaptive OCR; * The CONCERT application, an automatic and
collaborative correction tool; * Open Source Interoperability
Framework, providing testing and evaluation workflows and the ability
to wrap all tools as web services; * IMPACT dataset with over half a
million representative pages of digitised historical texts containing
newspapers, books and pamphlets with a subset of corresponding
groundtruth; * Language resources for nine European languages to
improve OCR and information retrieval. * A set of decision support
and
capacity building tools for digitisation across Europe
You can now find an overview of all presentations and blog posts on
http://impactocr.wordpress.com/
Kind regards,
Lieke Ploeger.
Manager IMPACT Project Office | KB National Library of the
Netherlands
| Sector Innovation & Development | +31 (0)70 314 0958
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