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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
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. |
Information Today
May 2, 2008 |
Old Bailey Proceedings Boosts Records Online More rich detailed historical sources have been added to the Proceedings of the Old Bailey online. The digitized collection now covers the years 1674 to 1913 |
PC World
June 2005
Richard Jantz |
OCR Upgrade Fast but Not Foolproof Readiris Pro 10 works well on standard character-recognition tasks, but falls short on hand-printed text. |
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. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Edwin Klijn |
The Current State-of-Art in Newspaper Digitization: A Market Perspective The market and technology adjust to accommodate the trend of newspaper collection digitization by libraries. |
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. |
PC Magazine
February 8, 2008
John C. Dvorak |
Computing's Final Frontiers The ultimate in machine translation is the gadget that translates what you say and speaks it in a foreign language. I am certain that the smart money has long since bailed out of these projects. |
Technology Research News
March 23, 2005
Eric Smalley |
Common sense boosts speech software Scientists develop system to improve speech recognition accuracy. |
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Report on the 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP'13) Technical areas covered in the workshop included information extraction and retrieval; reconstruction and degradation; text and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. |
PC World
January 2006
Richard Jantz |
Abbyy OCR Pushes Paper Proficiently The FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition does a superior job of converting paper documents into digital files. |
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. |
D-Lib
August 2007
Bonita Wilson |
Book Digitization Options for Libraries Online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis. |
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
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
February 2001
G. Sayeed Choudhury |
Strike Up the Score Deriving Searchable and Playable Digital Formats from Sheet Music... |
D-Lib
January 2002
Suzana Sukovic |
Beyond the scriptorium: The Role of the Library in Text Encoding Development of electronic textual resources means dealing with documents in new ways and on different levels, often involving work on a document's content through text encoding. This development challenges the library's assumed position in the research process... |
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
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. |
PC Magazine
December 9, 2005
M. David Stone |
Abbyy FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition Abbyy FineReader 8.0 improves text recognition from books, PDF files, and digital photos. |
InternetNews
February 5, 2009
Judy Mottl |
Google Mobilizes Its Book Collection Google takes initial step to bringing its library to mobile readership. |
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
August 5, 2014 |
Wellcome Library and Jisc Will Digitize Historic Medical Books The Wellcome Library, part of the Wellcome Trust, and Jisc partnered with nine institutions, including six universities, for a 2-year digitization project encompassing 19th-century medical books and pamphlets. |
Information Today
October 30, 2008 |
PALINET Launches Mass Digitization Collaborative The Mass Digitization Collaborative offers PALINET members the capability to contribute important historical and archival materials for digitization as part of a regional digital collection. |
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
February 17, 2015 |
ProQuest Announces Digitization of Early European Books ProQuest released the first 2 million pages -- about 5,800 books -- from its digitization project of rare, historical works at the National Library of France. |
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. |
Information Today
August 15, 2011 |
ProQuest Uncovers More Treasures from European Rare Book Libraries Early European Books, ProQuest's program to digitize the archives of landmark European libraries, has taken another leap forward with its latest release. |
Information Today
April 28, 2011 |
Text Creation Partnership Makes 18th-Century Texts Freely Available to the Public The University of Michigan Library announced the opening to the public of 2,231 searchable keyed-text editions of books from Eighteenth Century Collections Online, published by Gale, part of Cengage Learning. |
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
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. |
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
December 2006
David Bearman |
Jean-Noel Jeanneney's Critique of Google: Private Sector Book Digitization and Digital Library Policy Jean-Noel Jeanneney, President of the Bibliotheque nationale de France is pushing for a dramatic increase in international collaboration in the digitization of books by governments, to counter what he identifies as the risks posed by Google. |
Information Today
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
IT Interview Questia Provides Digital Library, Research Tools... |
Search Engine Watch
October 14, 2009
Tim Ash |
Tips for Organizing Your Landing Page Address these questions to ensure that visitors can access information on your landing page. |
D-Lib
September 2004
Erik Wilde |
In Brief A Tool for Bibliography Management and Sharing: The ShaRef Project... In the News: WEBLIS, an Integrated Library System based on CDS/ISIS, available free of charge from UNESCO and ICIE... Digital Information will never survive by accident... etc. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Google Searches the Classics Search engine's ambitious plans to digitize the works of three libraries raises copyright worries. |
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. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Dunn & Blanke |
Next Steps for E-Science, the Textual Humanities and VREs A report on text and grid: research questions for the humanities, sciences and industry. |
Information Today
December 20, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
CRM
April 2015
Leonard Klie |
Text Takes Precedence as a Customer Service Preference A new generation of consumers prefers short message service to other ways to reach agents. |
BusinessWeek
December 3, 2009
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
The Intel Reader: As Big a Boon as Braille? Intel's device for the blind or visually impaired combines a digital camera, OCR, and speech synthesis, with impressive results. |
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 |
