HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-02 21 September, 2023 ExpectedOutcome: Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Cultural heritage professionals in Europe, including curators, conservators and researchers of cultural heritage, use a common set of new innovative tools and methods for the…

The IMPACT Centre of Competence in digitisation is proud to announce the appointment of Sally Chambers as IMPACT’s new Executive Director. As Executive Director, Sally will be responsible for closely working with Centre members and the Executive Board in order to…

Europeana has launch a call for videos in order to showcase cutting edge projects and collaborations within research and cultural heritage fields.The deadline for proposal submissions is set on March 31st and the amount allocated per video is up to…

Dates: September 5-6, 2021 Venue: Lausanne, Switzerland / online Website: https://blog.sbb.berlin/hip2021/#infoContact: hip2021@primaresearch.org Description The HIP’21 workshop is co-located with the ICDAR2021 Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. HIP brings together researchers working with historical documents and intends to be complementary and synergistic…

Gustavo Candela, from the IMPACT Centre of Competence & Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes (Universidad de Alicante) will participate in the INTELE Network Workshop that will take place online on Wednesday, November 25th, 2020. Gustavo will participate in the round table representing…

The Koninklijke Bibliotheek is looking for early career data scientist, social scientist, computer scientist, humanities scholar, or more simply put, a researcher working with or interested in our digital collections, such as the web archive, 100 million pages digitised text…

The European Commission has launched a public consultation in order to evaluate the Recommendation of 27 October 2011 on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation. This is a very important consultation for Cultural Heritage institutions…

K(nowledge)-centres are important components of the CLARIN Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure, as these are the places where people from within and outside the CLARIN community can get access to specialized knowledge and expertise in many fields.  At this moment CLARIN has…

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…

The new date for presenting your COST action proposal is on November 29th, 2018 at 12:00 noon (CET). For more information on the COST programme and how to present your proposal, please visit http://www.cost.eu/participate/open_call

The Commission has launched a public consultation on Europeana, the European online platform, to hear the opinions from citizens and organisations with a personal or professional interest in digital culture available online. We wish to know how citizens, professionals and…

Monday 5 March 2018 (12:30) – Tuesday 6 March 2018 (17:00) Hacking the News: from digitised newspapers to the archived-web: an introductory workshop to text and data-mining #DHNhacknews Libraries have been digitising historical newspapers since the early 2000’s. However, to what…

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…

I: GENERAL INFORMATION The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submission of proposals for its annual conference on any aspect of digital humanities. The theme of the 2018 conference is “Bridges/Puentes,” and contributions that speak to the theme or…

The Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, member of IMPACT Centre of Competence Executive Board, has received the second Aporta prize in 2017 for its project “Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library, a new approach to digital libraries”. The prize is promoted…

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. In this post we are summing up the key features of our…

 The IMPACT Centre of Competence member company, i2S DIGIBOOK, has just released a new version of their capture software LIMB. Discover the latest version of LIMB Capture, i2S powerful digitisation system recognised worldwide. LIMB Capture is easy-to-use and professional and offer…

The IMPACT Centre of Competence, represented by its Executive Board member Elisabeth Freyre (BnF), will be present at the 83rd edition of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2017,that will take place between August 19th and 25th in…

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…

          Pilot project Full Automatic Archival Access completed AMSTERDAM|THE HAGUE|MADRID|NIJMEGEN – The ability to google through records is within reach, concludes the final report of the project Full Automatic Archival Access (FAAA). This project studied the opportunities…