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D-Lib
August 2009
Tanner et al. |
Measuring Mass Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness Lessons Learned from Assessing the OCR Accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Online Newspaper Archive   |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009
Rose Holley |
How Good Can It Get? Analysing and Improving OCR Accuracy in Large Scale Historic Newspaper Digitization Programs This article details the work undertaken by the National Library of Australia Newspaper Digitisation Program on identifying and testing solutions to improve OCR accuracy in large scale newspaper digitisation programs. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009
Powell & Paynter |
Going Grey? Comparing the OCR Accuracy Levels of Bitonal and Greyscale Images Digitizing newspaper using 8-bit greyscale may improve optical character recognition (OCR). |
D-Lib
March 2003
Arlitsch et al. |
The Utah Digital Newspapers Project This article describes a new method for digitizing historic newspapers, developed in a partnership between the University of Utah and two commercial organizations. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2015
Lorang et al. |
Developing an Image-Based Classifier for Detecting Poetic Content in Historic Newspaper Collections The Image Analysis for Archival Discovery (Aida) project team is investigating the use of image analysis to identify poetic content in historic newspapers. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2014
Donnie Summerlin |
Selecting Newspaper Titles for Digitization at the Digital Library of Georgia This case study examines the Digital Library of Georgia's newspaper digitization selection process and how it incorporates national standards with its own project-specific criteria. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013
Jacobs & Jacobs |
The Digital-Surrogate Seal of Approval: a Consumer-oriented Standard The word "digitization" hides more than it reveals. To know that a book has been digitized does not begin to tell librarians or users what they need to know. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Kulovits et al. |
From TIFF to JPEG 2000? Preservation planning at the Bavarian State Library using a collection of digitized 16th century printings. |
Information Today
September 15, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Google Digitization Initiative to Expand Google News Archive The company has offered free digitization to any newspaper publisher willing to put all or any part of its archives onto the web for access through Google News Archive. |
D-Lib
January 2006
Linden & Green |
Don't Leave the Data in the Dark: Issues in Digitizing Print Statistical Publications Statistical digitization projects must make investments in adequate metadata and object-oriented design at the point of digitization - otherwise, the data are in danger of losing their context |
D-Lib
March 2006
Choudhury et al. |
Document Recognition for a Million Books Transcription represents only one component of document recognition. The presence of a large-scale book image corpus significantly raises the possibilities for document recognition capabilities, especially given the potential for statistical inferences or analyses. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009
George V. Landon |
Toward Digitizing All Forms of Documentation Techniques to digitize numerous forms of documentation, including deteriorated manuscripts and photography. |
D-Lib
March 2006
Gregory Crane |
What Do You Do with a Million Books? The ability to extract from the stored record of humanity useful information in an actionable format for any given human being of any culture at any time and in any place will not emerge quickly, but the fundamental tools on which such a system would be built are moving forward. |
Information Today
March 26, 2007
Barbara Quint |
Chronicling America Service Offers Comprehensive Directory of U.S. Newspapers The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC) have inaugurated a new online service for America's historic newspapers called Chronicling America. |
D-Lib
March 2006
Schibel & Rydberg-Cox |
Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library Digital libraries have the potential to transform fields such as early modern studies, where problems of physical access to sources and intellectual access to their contents have hampered our ability to contemplate major topics. |
Information Today
January 15, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Bell & Howell Announces ProQuest Historical Newspapers Project and The New York Times as the First Available Digital Backfile... |
D-Lib
February 2001
G. Sayeed Choudhury |
Strike Up the Score Deriving Searchable and Playable Digital Formats from Sheet Music... |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2014
George V. Landon |
Report on the 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP'13) Technical areas covered in the workshop included information extraction and retrieval; reconstruction and degradation; text and image recognition and segmentation; and layout analysis and databases. |
Information Today
February 18, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Microfilm Still Matters in the Digital Age The microfilm business is still going strong. ProQuest, which has the largest commercially available microform collection in the world, adds millions of microfilm images each year. |
Information Today
August 2009
Barbara Quint |
Feature: Where Have All the Archives Gone? What are libraries getting for their precious and shrinking institutional dollars? The most interesting factor is what they are not getting, and all too often, that is a complete archive of online publications, including newspapers. |
D-Lib
March 2001 |
In Brief Award to Penn State University Libraries to support an extensive study of digital image delivery... Digitization of Printed Material: The METAe Project... The Special Collections Virtual Reading Room... etc. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009
Dahlstrom & Doracic |
Digitization Education: Courses Taken and Lessons Learned The aims and nature of cultural heritage (CH) digitization education at The Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), accompanied with a brief overview of Nordic CH digitization education efforts. |
Information Today
May 28, 2002
Barbara Quint |
OCLC, Olive Software Ally to Digitize Library Newspaper Archives OCLC Digital and Preservation Resources has signed an agreement with Olive Software to supply libraries with the tools to digitize historical newspaper archives. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2011
Dulock & Long |
The Conference on World Affairs Archive Online: Digitization and Metadata for a Digital Audio Pilot In 2009 the University of Colorado Archives, together with other units of the CU Libraries and the offices of the Conference on World Affairs, began a project to digitize a substantial collection of audio recordings from the Conference. |
D-Lib
February 2001
Manfred Thaller |
From the Digitized to the Digital Library Many, if not most, digitization projects have aimed at existing collections as individual servers. A digital library, however, should be more than a digitized one... |
Information Today
March 20, 2008 |
Chronicling America Site Adds Content and Features More than 79,000 newly digitized newspaper pages, along with several new site features, have recently been added to the Chronicling America website. |
Information Today
September 2, 2010 |
IBM and the EU Collaborate on Digitization of Historic European Texts The project seeks to provide technology that will enable highly-accurate digitization of rare and culturally significant historical texts on a massive scale. |
Information Today
September 18, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Full-Image Newspaper Collection Launches New Version... Readex Launches New Interface for Newspaper Collections... EOS International Adds FileTrail RFID Tracking... |
Information Today
February 7, 2013
Barbara Quint |
Reveal Digital Looks to Digitize Special Collections A new company, Reveal Digital, offers a service to libraries under a new cost-recovery revenue model aimed at permanent archiving and open access. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2015
Parilla & Blase |
The Value of Flexibility on Long-term Value of Grant Funded Projects The Field Book Project is an initiative to increase accessibility to field book content that documents natural history. |
Information Today
September 6, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest LexisNexis and Biz360 partner on reputation monitoring solution... ProQuest to digitize small town newspaper archives... Swets partners with Taylor & Francis to launch new eCollections Swets Information Services... |
PC Magazine
May 15, 2008
Edward Mendelson |
ABBYY FineReader Professional 9.0 Abbyy FineReader OCR Professional makes it easy to turn scanned documents and PDFs into editable text. |
D-Lib
December 2007
Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2004
David Mattison |
Looking for Good Art Part 3: Glorious National Collections With an unimaginable wealth of art digitally accessible and preserved for us and future generations by art history institutions outside the U.S., the international Web of the Western art world is truly one of the most remarkable achievements of our digital age. Here links to directories and guides. |
D-Lib
April 2004
Nancy Allen |
Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP) The Colorado Digitization Project has broadened its scope, and serves a number of roles as a collaborative organization supporting digitization infrastructure for cultural heritage organizations of all kinds. |
PC Magazine
February 3, 2004
M. David Stone |
OCR Packages Get Serious Abbyy and ScanSoft have both added more horsepower to their high-end suites, but one finished ahead by a nose in our tests. |
Information Today
November 2007
Jim Ashling |
Progress Report: The British Library and Microsoft Digitization Partnership Microsoft and The British Library (BL) plan to digitize 100,000 out of copyright titles and make them accessible via Microsoft's Live Search Books site. |
Information Today
September 15, 2015 |
ProQuest Facilitates Library Access to Global Newspapers ProQuest rolled out the Newspapers.com Library Edition, giving library patrons access to more than 85 million pages of digitized newspapers from the early 1700s to the early 2000s. |
Information Today
August 29, 2005
Barbara Quint |
CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered. |
Information Today
June 27, 2011
Barbara Quint |
The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library. |
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
Information Today
February 21, 2008 |
Microsoft Utilizes ABBYY FineReader Engine for Live Search Books Microsoft selects FineReader Engine software development kit (SDK) to convert text from books to searchable electronic data. |
D-Lib
May 2005
Seales & Landon |
The Museum and the Media Divide: Building and Using Digital Collections at the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena A look at the challenges involved in acquiring, organizing and accessing museum collections to make them meaningfully available within typical budgetary and technical constraints. |
PC World
August 23, 2006
Richard Jantz |
IRIS Serves Up Snappy, Accurate OCR Update of optical character recognition program could boost your office's productivity. |
Information Today
July 19, 2010 |
LYRASIS Partners with Creekside Digital to Offer Expanded Microfilm Scanning Services LYRASIS' Mass Digitization Collaborative enables members to digitize books, serials, and newspapers for a low fee. LYRASIS is the nation's largest regional membership organization serving libraries and information professionals. |
Information Today
May 23, 2011 |
National Library of France Embarks on Huge Digitization Project The BnF, the National Library of France, has signed a new deal with the Jouve-Safig-Diadeis partnership for the digitization of its print collections. |
InternetNews
May 1, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Helps N.Y. Times Update its Online Look Bill Gates demonstrated a prototype viewer called Times Reader, developed in conjunction with the New York Times and built on the Windows Presentation Foundation library. |
Information Today
November 8, 2012 |
ProQuest Participates in Early Modern OCR Project The company will provide access to page images from the veritable Early English Books Online and newcomer Early European Books to the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP) at Texas A&M. |
PC Magazine
September 29, 2005
M. David Stone |
OmniPage Professional 15 ScanSoft's OmniPage Professional 15 takes OCR programs into new territory. |
Searcher
May 2010
Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Staying Afloat in Turbulent Waters -- News/Media Libraries Hit Hard A discussion of the events and circumstances affecting media organizations and their libraries under difficult economic conditions. |
