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The IMPACT Centre of Competence is organising together with the University of Göttingen a new edition of the Digitisation Days and the DATeCH International Conference, in Göttingen on 1-2 June, 2017. We are offering companies the opportunity to join us as sponsors with three different levels:

Gold Partner ☐ Member of Impact Centre: 3000€ ☐ No member of Impact Centre: 4000€ We offer:

• A 10-minute commercial presentation during the DATeCH conference sessions.
• A stand at the place where coffee breaks and lunch will be served, so all attendees will be present.
• Identification as sponsor on the conference communication (web site, programme document, etc.)
• The company documentation to be included in the attendees’ folder (the documentation has to be sent printed to SUB Uni Göttingen* at least 2 weeks before the conference, that is, by May 15th).
• Access to printed attendees list (with institutions names).

Silver Partner

☐ Member of Impact Centre: 2500€ ☐ No member of Impact Centre: 3500€ We offer:

• A stand at the place where coffee breaks and lunch will be served, so all attendees will be present.
• Identification as sponsor on the conference communication (web site, programme document, etc.)
• The company documentation to be included in the attendees’ folder (the documentation has to be sent printed to SUB Uni Göttingen* at least 2 weeks before the conference, that is, by May 15th).
• Access to printed attendees list (with institutions names).

Bronze Partner ☐ Member of Impact Centre: 1000€ ☐ No member of Impact Centre: 2000€ We offer:

• Identification as sponsor on the conference communication (web site, programme document, etc.)
• The company documentation to be included in the attendees’ folder (the documentation has to be sent printed to SUB Uni Göttingen* at least 2 weeks before the conference, that is, by May 15th).
• Access to printed attendees list (with institutions names).

The call for sponsorship will be open until April 10th, don’t miss your opportunity to showcase your products and services to the most important CH institutions. The last edition of the DDays was attended by over 180 people coming from the main institutions of CH, European policy makers and other personalities. Discover here how to become IMPACT member. For more information about sponsorship, please contact us at isabel.martinez[at]digitisation.eu or mbuechler[at]etrap.eu.

IFLA 2017 News Media Satellite Conference

www.slubdd.de/iflanewsmedia 
Relying on News Media. Long Term Preservation and Perspectives for Our Collective Memory

The conference will take place on 16-18 August, 2017 at SLUB Dresden and is organised by IFLA News Media Section

Important Dates 2017

• 31 March: Proposal abstracts due
• 24 March: Acceptance notices sent to authors
• 30 June: Completed papers and presentations submitted
• 16-17 August: Conference
• 18 August: “Social Event: Saxon Flair and baroque places: Dresden, Meissen, Moritzburg”

More info at http://www.slub-dresden.de/en/about-us/cooperations/ifla-2017-news-media-satellite-conference/

The IMPACT Centre of Competence in digitisation is proud to announce that five new institutions have joined us as Standard Member:

• the Spanish cultural institution, Ateneu Barcelonès
• the French company Jouve
• the German State and University Library of Göttingen
• the United States University Library of Stanford
• the European digital library, Europeana

Europeana and the University Library of Stanford have become members of IMPACT in the frame of an agreement thanks to which their Directors, Jill Cousins and Michael Keller become members of the IMPACT Expert Advisory Board. The State and University Library of Göttingen is hosting the Digitisation Days and the DATeCH International Conference on June 1-2, 2017.

We would like to warmly welcome all of them to our Centre and we hope to meet their expectations.

 

 

The IMPACT Centre Board member Bibliothèque nationale de France and L3i research lab (University of La Rochelle) are proud to announce that their competition on Post-OCR Text Correction has been accepted by ICDAR 2017 conference (Kyoto, November 10-15). The registration for this competition is open until March 30th.

“The accuracy of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technologies considerably impacts the way digital documents are indexed, accessed and exploited. During the last decades, OCR engines have been constantly improving and are today able to return exploitable results on mainstream documents. But in practice, digital libraries have on shelves many transcriptions with a quality below expectation. In fact, ancient documents with challenging layouts and various levels of conservation such as historical newspapers still resist to modern OCRs. Moreover, formerly digitized resources processed with out-dated OCRs are rarely re-sent through the latest state-of-the-art digitization pipeline, as priority is often given to the ever-growing masses of new arriving documents. In this context, OCR post-correction approaches, either used on former digitized documents or on fresh challenging documents, could strongly benefit digital libraries.”

Important dates :
Training dataset is available: End-February, 2017 / early March
Registration deadline: March 30, 2017
Evaluation dataset is available: Early June
Result submission: June 15, 2017
Conference: November 10-15, 2017

For further information, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/icdar2017-postcorrectionocr/home

                                            

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE – Abstracts due on 13 January and full papers on 20 January, 2017

We are proud to announce that the DATeCH International Conference and the Digitisation Days will take place on 1-2 June, 2017, in Göttingen. Below, we include the information of the DATeCH call for papers. For further information, please visit http://ddays.digitisation.eu.

Call for papers

The DATeCH international conference brings together researchers and practitioners looking for innovative approaches for the creation, transformation and exploitation of historical documents in digital form.

Important dates

• 7 January 2017  13 January 2017 – Abstract submission deadline
• 20 January 2017 – Paper submission deadline
• 28 February 2017 – Decision notification
• 31 March 2017 – Camera-ready papers due
• 1-2 June 2017 – Conference

Target audience

The conference aims to foster interdisciplinary work and linking together participants engaged in the following areas:

• Text digitization and OCR.
• Digital humanities.
• Image and document analysis.
• Digital libraries and library science.
• Applied computational linguistics.
• Crowdsourcing.
• Interfaces and human-computer interaction.

Topics

Topics of interest are all those related to the practical and scientific goals listed above, such as:

• OCR technology and tools for minority and historical languages.
• Methods and tools for post-correction of OCR results.
• Automated quality control for mass OCR data.
• Innovative access methods for historical texts and corpora.
• Natural language processing of ancient languages (Latin, Greek).
• Visualization techniques and interfaces for search and research in digital humanities.
• Publication and retrieval on e-books and mobile devices.
• Crowdsourcing techniques for collecting and annotating data in digital humanities.
• Enrichment of and metadata production for historical texts and corpora.
• Data created with mobile devices.
• Data presentation and exploration on mobile devices.
• Ontological and linked data based contextualization of digitized and born digital scholarly data resources.

Venue

The conference will take place in the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Historical Building, in the framework of the Digitisation Days (1-2 June, 2017).

Programme committee

The programme committee is chaired by Apostolos Antonacopoulos (Salford University, UK) and Marco Büchler (Georg August University Göttingen, Germany) and integrated by:

• Alicia Fornés, Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
• Aly Conteh,  LDS Church History Library, Salt Lake City, USA
• Basilis Gatos, Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research, Greece
• Claire Clivaz, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Clemens Neudecker, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Germany
• Dirk Roorda, Data Archiving and Networked Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Elena Gonzalez-Blanco García, UNED, Madrid, Spain
• Enrique Vidal, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame, USA
• Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta, Canada
• Gimena del Rio Riande, CONICET, Argentina
• Günter Mühlberger, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
• Jim Salmons, FactMiners, USA
• Joan Andreu Sánchez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

• Klaus Schulz, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany
• Kristoffer L. Nielbo, Interacting Minds Centre, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Laura Mandell, Texas A&M University, USA
• Laurent Romary, Inria & DARIAH, France and Germany
• Lou Burnard, Lou Burnard consulting, UK
• Mike Kestemont, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Neil Fitzgerald, The British Library, UK
• Rafael C. Carrasco (DLSI & Impact Centre of Competence, Universidad de Alicante), Spain
• Simone Marinai, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
• Stefan Gradmann, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Stefan Pletschacher, University of Salford, UK
• Stoyan Mihov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Thierry Paquet, Université de Rouen, France
• Tomasz Parkoła, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland

Submission

The following criteria will be applied to all papers submitted to DATeCH 2017 (http://ddays.digitisation.eu/datech-2017/submissions/):

• Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 6 pages in length.
• Only original material will be accepted.
• All submissions will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, indexed in a major digital library.
• The authors of the best contributions will be invited to prepare an extended version for a collective publication of selected papers in an indexed journal (an additional reviewing process will be applied).

Contact

For additional information, please visit http://ddays.digitisation.eu/datech-2017/ or send an email to datech@digitisation.eu.

DATeCH 2017 is supported by:The Impact Centre of Competence and organised by:the Göttingen State and University Library and the University of Göttingen 

                                            

 

We are proud to announce that the DATeCH International Conference and the Digitisation Days will take place on 1-2 June, 2017, in Göttingen. Below, we include the information of the DATeCH call for papers. For further information, please visit http://ddays.digitisation.eu.

Call for papers

The DATeCH international conference brings together researchers and practitioners looking for innovative approaches for the creation, transformation and exploitation of historical documents in digital form.

Important dates

• 7 January 2017 – Paper submission deadline
• 28 February 2017 – Decision notification
• 31 March 2017 – Camera-ready papers due
• 1-2 June 2017 – Conference

Target audience

The conference aims to foster interdisciplinary work and linking together participants engaged in the following areas:

• Text digitization and OCR.
• Digital humanities.
• Image and document analysis.
• Digital libraries and library science.
• Applied computational linguistics.
• Crowdsourcing.
• Interfaces and human-computer interaction.

Topics

Topics of interest are all those related to the practical and scientific goals listed above, such as:

• OCR technology and tools for minority and historical languages.
• Methods and tools for post-correction of OCR results.
• Automated quality control for mass OCR data.
• Innovative access methods for historical texts and corpora.
• Natural language processing of ancient languages (Latin, Greek).
• Visualization techniques and interfaces for search and research in digital humanities.
• Publication and retrieval on e-books and mobile devices.
• Crowdsourcing techniques for collecting and annotating data in digital humanities.
• Enrichment of and metadata production for historical texts and corpora.
• Data created with mobile devices.
• Data presentation and exploration on mobile devices.
• Ontological and linked data based contextualization of digitized and born digital scholarly data resources.

Venue

The conference will take place in the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Historical Building, in the framework of the Digitisation Days (1-2 June, 2017).

Programme committee

The programme committee is chaired by Apostolos Antonacopoulos (Salford University, UK) and Marco Büchler (Georg August University Göttingen, Germany) and integrated by:

• Alicia Fornés, Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
• Aly Conteh,  LDS Church History Library, Salt Lake City, USA
• Basilis Gatos, Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research, Greece
• Claire Clivaz, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Clemens Neudecker, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Germany
• Dirk Roorda, Data Archiving and Networked Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Elena Gonzalez-Blanco García, UNED, Madrid, Spain
• Enrique Vidal, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame, USA
• Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta, Canada
• Gimena del Rio Riande, CONICET, Argentina
• Günter Mühlberger, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
• Jim Salmons, FactMiners, USA
• Joan Andreu Sánchez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

• Klaus Schulz, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany
• Kristoffer L. Nielbo, Interacting Minds Centre, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Laura Mandell, Texas A&M University, USA
• Laurent Romary, Inria & DARIAH, France and Germany
• Lou Burnard, Lou Burnard consulting, UK
• Mike Kestemont, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Neil Fitzgerald, The British Library, UK
• Rafael C. Carrasco (DLSI & Impact Centre of Competence, Universidad de Alicante), Spain
• Simone Marinai, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
• Stefan Gradmann, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Stefan Pletschacher, University of Salford, UK
• Stoyan Mihov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Thierry Paquet, Université de Rouen, France
• Tomasz Parkoła, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland

Submission

The following criteria will be applied to all papers submitted to DATeCH 2017 (http://ddays.digitisation.eu/datech-2017/submissions/):

• Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 6 pages in length.
• Only original material will be accepted.
• All submissions will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, indexed in a major digital library.
• The authors of the best contributions will be invited to prepare an extended version for a collective publication of selected papers in an indexed journal (an additional reviewing process will be applied).

Contact

For additional information, please visit http://ddays.digitisation.eu/datech-2017/ or send an email to datech@digitisation.eu.

DATeCH 2017 is supported by:The Impact Centre of Competence and organised by:the Göttingen State and University Library and the University of Göttingen