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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
What are the DigitisationDays?
The Digitisation Days aim to present an up-to-date vision of the most
recent advances in technology for the digitisation of text, to showcase
successful experiences in their application and to explore the
challenges for the near future of digitisation. It comprises the DATeCH
International Conferencethat is conceived as forum to present, discuss
and showcase latest techniques in digitisation and related fields.
The Digitisation Days and the DATeCH International Conference are
supported by the Impact Centre of Competence and organised by the
Göttingen State and University Library and the University of Göttingen.
Where and when will they take place?
The Digitisation Days will take place in Göttingen at the facilities of
the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen,
Historical Building (Papendiek 14, 37073 Göttingen) on 1-2 June 2017.**
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Latest possible registration: *26th May, 2017 11:59 PM*
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Why should I attend the DigitisationDays?
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Become aware of new technology for the digitisation of textual content.
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Influence future trendsin digitisation: meet researchers, leading
companies, and service providers and discuss your requirements.
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Participate in thediscussionsabout the future of digitisation.
Experts and representatives of the European Commission will share
their vision.
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Network and build new connectionswith representatives of libraries,
companies and institutions involved in digitisation.
See the list of accepted papers
athttp://ddays.digitisation.eu/datech-2017/accepted-papers/
Satellite workshops
On May 30th - 31st, the following workshops will take place. The
registration for these workshops is independent of the conference
registration.
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The journey from physical to digital and advancements in culture
heritage digitisation
May 30th, 2017, 9 :00AM – 4:30 PM
This two-part workshop will introduce the basics of the digitisation
lifecycle with emphasis on workflows and best practice, and facilitate a
discussion about optimisation of the end-to-end digitisation process to
increase scalability and improve the quality and usability of the
digitised assets.
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TRACER tutorial for computational text reuse detection
30th May 2017, 9 AM – 6 PM
The tutorial builds on eTRAP’s research activities, most of which deploy
our TRACER machine. TRACER is a suite of algorithms aimed at
investigating text reuse in different corpora, be those prose, poetry,
in Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek or medieval German. TRACER provides
researchers with statistical information about the texts under
investigation and its integrated reuse visualiser, TRAViz, displays the
reuses in a more readable format for further study.
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TextGrid user workshop
May 30th 2017 1PM – 5 PM
TextGrid is a virtual research environment that provides various tools
and services for digital humanists. The workshop will initiate the
participants in the use of the TextGridLab, a free portable software,
and the basic components of its infrastructure.
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Handwritten Text Recognition – Transkribus Workshop (project READ)
May 31st, 2017, 9:00 AM - 5 PM
Transkribus (https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/) is a platform for the
automated recognition, transcription and searching of handwritten
historical documents. Transkribus is part of the EU-funded Recognition
and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ)
(http://read.transkribus.eu/) project. The core mission of the READ
project is to make archival material more accessible through the
development and dissemination of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and
other cutting-edge technologies.
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PoCoTo user workshop
May 31, 2017 1 PM – 5 PM
PoCoTo (PostCorrectionTool) is an open source tool for the interactive
post-correction of OCR‘ed data that has be developed by the CIS of the
LMU Munich. This workshop will teach the participants both the basic
usage of PoCoTo for the correction of OCR results and more advanced
topics like the usage of the language profiler for the generation of
correction suggestions that take historical spelling variation of the
document language into account.
How can I register?
Please, visit http://ddays.digitisation.eu/registration/
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Marco BÜCHLER
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Papendiek 16 (Heynehaus)
37073 Göttingen
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