IMPACT News

Nº 22

Autumn, 2018

Dear friends,

Here you are the new number of IMPACT News!

Our new website is now alive! Visit us at www.digitisation.eu

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New @IMPACT

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New IMPACT website

New IMPACT website

In IMPACT we are proud to present our brand new website with new appearance! Now, our content is easier to reach from the homepage just with one click.

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Glossary: new section at our website
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IMPACT Diasearch presentation at 12th International Simposium New Trends in R+D+I in Literatura, Language, Education...

IMPACT Diasearch presentation at 12th International Simposium New Trends in R+D+I in Literatura, Language, Education...

Last May, 29th, Gustavo Candela and M. Pilar Escobar, from Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes presented the Diachronic Corpus Search Service, Diasearch, an online service which enables users to perform linguistically enriched queries on a collection of historical texts. It is currently available for the Spanish IMPACT-es corpus and can be used at https://www.digitisation.eu/tools-resources/language-resources/diachronic-corpus/. The main topic of the symposium was lexicosemantic change, …

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ScanTailor, new tool at IMPACT Demonstrator platform

ScanTailor, new tool at IMPACT Demonstrator platform

Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It gives the ability of: splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, binarising, among others features. The provided input are raw scans, and it will provode pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file as an output. Scan Tailor is licensed under Free Software, General Public License version 3 and there are both …

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Call for papers

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DATeCH International Conference 2019 - Call for Papers
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ICDAR2019 - Call for papers
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DH2019 Call for papers
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Digitisation News

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Library of Congress launches a new transcription crowdsourcing tool
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Building Library Labs Survey
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Results of the EC Public Consultation on Europeana
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Google Dataset Search Beta version

Google Dataset Search Beta version

Google has recently launched a beta version of a dataset search engine in order to facilitate the accessibility to large data sets. Extracted from Google Dataset Search site: What is Dataset Search? Data Set Search enables users to find data sets stored across thousands of repositories on the Web, making these data sets universally accessible and useful. Data Sets and …

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Job Opportunities

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Job Position @IFLA - Professional Support Officer
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Job position @IFLA - Communications Officer
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Job Position @Europeana - Junior Data Ingestion Specialist
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Job opportunity @British Library - Research Software Engineer
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