In 2016, the Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie (Institute for Dutch Lexicology) is transformed into a renewed institute with a broader mission: the Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Dutch Language Institute). Anyone who wants to know anything about the Dutch language through…

One of the tasks that had to be carried out in PREFORMA during these last two months of 2016 is to prepare a report to be submitted to the European Commission describing the impact that PREFORMA has generated to date for…

Manuel Bravo, Director of Fundación Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes (Impact Centre of Competence Board member), has participated in XXXII Reunión Anual del Consejo Nacional para Asuntos Bibliotecarios de Instituciones de Educación Superior, A. C. (CONPAB-IES), that takes place in Ciudad…

We are proud to announce that the Swiss National Library has become member of the Impact Centre of Competence in digitisation. The Swiss National Library is the main archive of Switzerland, every publication, from Swiss daily newspapers to novels, from documentaries and…

IFLA is pleased to announce the creation of a new Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre which will focus on digital preservation and digital sustainability. The new PAC Centre is based at the National Library of Poland. …

Tomasz Parkoła, from Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Centre, has been selected as new Scientific and Technological Director of the Impact Centre of Competence. He succeeds the outgoing Director, Rafael Carrasco, currently Seconded National Expert at the ERC. Tomasz Parkoła is…

OUTLINE Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) is a competition-like method designed to steer the development of innovative solutions towards concrete public sector needs. These solutions are developed by external suppliers that are awarded a contract through a phased open procurement process. In…

The Impact Centre of Competence is pleased to announce that its former Scientific Director, Rafael Carrasco, is now serving the European Research Council Executive Agency as Seconded National Expert in Research Policies. In this commitment, he will contribute to the…

If you are wondering how to OCR a dictionary, Jesse de Does, from the IMPACT CoC Board member Instituut of Nederlandse Lexicologie, gives you some keys at DigiLex. Here it is an interesting blogpost about the OCR of dictionaries. In the post, Jesse answers…

Gallica, the BnF digital library, has a new design: new layout, improvements of some research and access functionalities, and new curations of its digital collections, all for the benefit of a large audience. An exceptional documentary resource Gallica is one…

The ALTO XML Editorial Board is pleased to announce that the ALTO schema version 3.1 is now available for public use. The schema can be found on the website of the The Library of Congress at http://www.loc.gov/standards/alto/v3/alto-3-1.xsd and on Github…

Last year I was invited to visit two important National Libraries in Latin America. There I had the opportunity to meet colleagues working on digital projects in both institutions and share with them our experiences and projects involving access, use,…

On December 11th, 2015, the Impact Centre of Competence held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Alicante. This meeting is open to all member of the Centre and it has as objective, apart from designing the vision of the Centre…

The ALTO XML Editorial Board is pleased to announce that ALTO draft schema version 3.1 is now online for public comment. The draft schema can be found on Github at https://github.com/altoxml/schema/blob/master/v3/alto-3-1-draft.xsd. You will find a document describing the changes as…

Next December 11th, the Impact Centre of Competence will celebrate its Annual General Meeting (AGM). This year the meeting will be hosted by the Universidad de Alicante. All Impact members are invited to attend this event in which crucial aspects of…

The Impact Centre of Competence in Digitisation will be present at the next Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL) of Guadalajara, Mexico (28 Nov. – 6 Dec.). Francis Ballesteros, Director of Impact, will present in the FIL a general vision of Impact.…

Last September 18th, the Impact Centre of Competence and the Open Preservation Foundation organised a kick-off workshop for their new MOOC on Digitisation and Digital Preservation which  will be launched soon. The workshop took place in Poznań (Poland) within the…

The Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie (INL) has become the new Chair-elect of the Impact Centre of Competence Board through its Director, Martin Everaert. Thus, INL takes over from Koninklijke Bibliotheek after 3 successful years. The INL is a research institute…

Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (FBVMC), founding member and manager of the Impact Centre of Competence, will participate on September 15th in TPDL 2015, organised this year by Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Centre (also founding members of the Centre).…

In the course of 2014, colleagues from various divisions of the University Library of KU Leuven (Belgium) were involved in testing tools for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and NER (Named Entity Recognition), developed in the framework of the Support action…