IMPACT Centre of Competence

TPDL 2018
2018-09-18 - 2018-09-21
The 22nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries will take place on 18-21 September 2018 in Porto, Portugal.

The programme commitee is composed by:
General Co-Chairs

Cristina Ribeiro, University of Porto, Portugal
Gabriel David, University of Porto, Portugal

Program Co-Chairs

Eva Méndez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland

Building Library Labs
2018-09-13 09:00 - 2018-09-14 16:40 (Europe/Madrid) | The British Library, St Pancras, London, London, NW1 2DB, United Kingdom
Description
Around the world leading national, state and university libraries are creating ‘lab type environments’ so that their digitised cultural heritage collections and data can be opened up and re-used for creative, innovative and inspiring projects by everyone such as digital researchers, artists, entrepreneurs and educators.
This two-day event is a forum for discussion and networking, bringing together national, state and university libraries with existing or planned digital ‘Labs-style’ teams from around the world. It’s a chance to network, share lessons learned, and tell each other about innovative projects and services that are using digital collections / data in new and interesting ways.
Please note as spaces are limited, this event page has been set up for attendees already invited.
If you are interested in coming to this event and have not been invited yet, please email labs@bl.uk with a brief explanation as to why it would be important for you to attend.
The event is organised by the British Library Labs project.
Refreshments / lunch are provided on both days.
Date and Time
Thursday 13 September 2018, 09:00 – 18:00 (followed by an optional dinner, 19:30 – 21:00)
Friday 14 September 2018, 09:00 – 16:40
Location
The British Library, Foyle Suite, Centre of Conservation, St Pancras, NW1 2DB London, United Kingdom.
Map
Please refer to the following map for how to get to the British Library. When you arrive at the library, the Information Desk will be able to point you towards the Foyle Suite which is on the first floor and across the outdoor terrace at the back of the Library.
Programme
A detailed programme is available here.
Twitter
#buildlibrarylabs & @bl_labs

IFLA WLIC 2018
2018-08-24 - 2018-08-30 | Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Stall 7, Jalan Pinang Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Kuala Lumpur, 50088, Malaysia
IFLA WLIC is the annual congress of the International Federation of Libraries Association.
In 2018, the 84th edition of the conference takes place on 24-30 August, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
For further information on the conference, please visit https://2018.ifla.org/.

LIBER Annual Conference
2018-07-04 - 2018-07-06
LIBER 47th Annual Conference, hosted by LILLIAD Learning centre Innovation at the University of Lille, will be held 4-6 July 2018 in Lille, France.nnThe Annual Conference will include plenary sessions with top international speakers, presentations on current research, posters, and an exhibition of products and services for the library sector, as well as a comprehensive social programme.nnDetails of the Annual Conference theme, programme and the Call for Papers will be issued in LIBER November 2017 Mailing.

DH2018
2018-06-26 - 2018-06-29 | Maria Isabel Sheraton Hotel, Ciudad de Mexico, Paseo de la Reforma 325, Cuauhtémoc, Ciudad de México, CDMX, 06500, Mexico
The 2018 Digital Humanities Conference, organised by the Association of Digital Humanities Organizations in conjunction with El Colegio de México, La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and La Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD), is a space for diversity and dialogue in digital research and teaching across all arts, social sciences and humanities. The 2018 conference marks the first time that the conference will take place in Latin America & the global south. Mexico´s sociocultural diversity makes it an ideal location for converging digital humanists from distinct cultures, contexts, and socio-political realities. The crossing of cultural, technological, political and ideological borders will stride towards the creation of a digital humanities community that is truly transnational and inclusive.

JCDL 2018
2018-06-03 - 2018-06-07 | University of North Texas Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX, TX 76107, United States
The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2018 (JCDL 2018) will be hosted by three units of the University of North Texas (UNT) — the College of Information, the UNT Health Science Center, and the UNT Libraries. It will be held at the UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth, the rustic and artistic threshold into the American West. Its co-organizer includes the School of Information Management at Wuhan University.
The information about the past conferences can be found at http://jcdl.org/past_conferences.php
For more information on JCDL, please visit http://jcdl.org/index.php.

LREC 2018
2018-05-07 - 2018-05-12 | Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan
Since the first LREC held in Granada in 1998, LREC has become the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Language Technologies (LT). The aim of LREC is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from the e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to technological and organisational ones.
LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support to investigations in language sciences, progress and innovation in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.

Introduction to web analytics for on-line cultural heritage collections
2018-04-18 11:00 - 12:00
Sesion lead

Marcin Werla, Head of Digital Libraries and Knowledge Platforms Department at PSNC

Description

The aim of this webinar is to introduce usage of web analytics tools (like Google Analytics) in the context of cultural heritage collections. During the webinar basic possibilities of such tools will be presented with special focus on usage scenarios related to websites that make cultural heritage collections available on-line. Beside the general introduction to web analytics and presentation of functionality of such tools, the webinar will also include some guidelines related to extraction of basic metrics, that can be used as performance indicators (KPIs) in the process of development of on-line services. The webinar will also provide overview of basic data segmentation techniques, allowing to add more context to analyzed data.

Recording

Webinar: Introduction to web analytics for on-line cultural heritage collections
2018-04-18 11:00 - 11:30
The aim of this webinar is to introduce usage of web analytics tools (like Google Analytics) in the context of cultural heritage collections. During the webinar basic possibilities of such tools will be presented with special focus on usage scenarios related to websites that make cultural heritage collections available on-line. Beside the general introduction to web analytics and presentation of functionality of such tools, the webinar will also include some guidelines related to extraction of basic metrics, that can be used as performance indicators (KPIs) in the process of development of on-line services. The webinar will also provide overview of basic data segmentation techniques, allowing to add more context to analyzed data.

LILAC 2018
2018-04-04 - 2018-04-06 | Liverpool Guild of Students, 160 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5TR, United Kingdom
LILAC is the Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference and is a firm favourite in the calendar of information professionals. The conference is brimming with new ideas, innovative teaching techniques, inspiring speakers and exciting social events.

DHN 2018
2018-03-07 - 2018-03-09
The 3rd conference of the association of Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (DHN) will be held at the University of Helsinki March 7–9, 2018. The conference is organised by HELDIG – the Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki, the Faculty of Arts.
In 2018, the conference seeks to extend the scope of digital humanities research covered, both into new areas, as well as beyond the Nordic and Baltic countries. This year, the conference welcomes in particular work related to the following themes: History, Cultural Heritage, Games, and Future.
The overarching theme this year is Open Science. This pragmatic concept emphasises the role of transparent and reproducible research practices, open dissemination of results, and new forms of collaboration, all greatly facilitated by digitalisation. All proposals are invited to reflect on the benefits, challenges, and prospects of open science for their own research. Please see the full CFP for more information.

Dataton Cervantes & Open Data Brunch
2018-02-24 10:00 - 15:00 | Medialab Prado, Alameda, 15, madrid, Madrid, 28014, Spain
The objective of this workshop is to foster the edition and re-use of Open Data, whose use facilitates access to information, promotes transparency and collaboration, while generating the creation of applications for society. Both the FBVMC and Wikimedia have opted for the publication of Open Data in their projects data.cervantesvirtual.com y Wikidata.

An introduction to Transkribus – automated text recognition for historical documents
2017-12-14 11:00 - 12:00
Transkribus is a Research Infrastructure for automated transcription, recognition and searching in historical documents – whether they are handwritten or printed, date back to the middle-ages or represent modern writing in Latin, English, Finnish, Arabic or any other character based alphabet. Transkribus is part of the H2020 Project READ (Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents). For more information visit:

http://transkribus.eu/http://read.transkribus.eu/

The webinar consists of three building blocks:1. Demonstration. We will demonstrate the main features of Transkribus using real world examples. Significant progress has been made in the last few years in the areas of layout analysis, handwritten text recognition and keyword spotting. Participants will hear about latest developments in the field and understand the main concepts behind them.2. Content from users. Participants are encouraged to send us their images from any kind of document they are interested in or are working with. We especially welcome handwritten documents from archives. Please send these images either directly to Transkribus: <email@transkribus.eu>, or send them via WeTransfer. In this session we will then talk about the options for how to process these images, especially in relation to your objectives and project plans.3. Background. In the last section participants will get an overview of the Transkribus Research Infrastructure, its background and further plans.

Sesion lead

Günter Mühlberger, Universität Innsbruck

Recording

FIL 2017 Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara
2017-11-25 - 2017-12-03 | Centro de Exposiciones Expo Guadalajara, Av. Mariano Otero 1499, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
The most outstanding meeting of the Spanish-language publishing world awaits you in Guadalajara, November 25 to December 3, 2017.
Authors, literary agents, librarians, booksellers and more than 2,042 publishing houses from 47 countries visit us every year. With them, over 800,821 visitors will enjoy the world of books and the very best of the literary and artistic production from Madrid, our 2017 Guest of Honor

ICDAR2017 Competition on Post-OCR Text Correction
2017-11-10 - 2017-11-15 | Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
The IMPACT Centre Board member Bibliothèque nationale de France and L3i research lab (University of La Rochelle) are proud to announce that their competition on Post-OCR Text Correction has been accepted by ICDAR 2017 conference (Kyoto, November 10-15). The registration for this competition is open until March 30th.

Transkribus User Conference
2017-11-02 - 2017-11-03 | Technical University Vienna, Getreidemarkt 9, Wien, 1060, Austria
The Transkribus User Conference 2017 will take place at the Technical University Vienna on 2-3 November 2017.
The Transkribus User Conference will be a forum for new and more experienced users of our Transkribus platform to come together and learn more about possibilities for the automatic processing of handwritten historical documents. What is more, there will be lots of opportunities to give feedback to Transkribus developers and ask questions about how automated processing can work with your documents.

Quality control in (mass) digitisation workflows
2017-09-05 12:00 - 13:00
Sesion lead

Martina Hoffmann (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)

Description

Digitisation of cultural heritage is big business nowadays and the possibilities seem endless – But how do we actually get what we ask for? And how can we assess if we get what we ask for? QA workflows in times of mass rapid ex- or internal digitisation emerge and the necessity becomes more and more obvious. How to set up a QA workflow in mass digitisation and what are the ingredients for it will be shown on a business case of the Netherlands Metamorfoze A&C.

Recording

IFLA WLIC 2017
2017-08-19 - 2017-08-25 | Centennial Hall, Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
IFLA WLIC is the annual congress of the International Federation of Libraries Association.
This year, the conference takes place on 19-25 August, in Wroclaw, Poland.
On 21st and 22nd, between 12:00 and 14:00. Elisabeth Freyre, BnF, will present our poster.
For further information on the conference, please visit https://2017.ifla.org/.

2017 IFLA News Media Satellite Conference, Extension of CfP
2017-08-16 - 2017-08-18 | SLUB Dresden, Moritzburg, Distrito de Meißen, Dresden, German, Dresden, Germany
Relying on News Media. Long Term Preservation and Perspectives for Our Collective Memory
The conference will take place on 16-18 August, 2017 at SLUB Dresden and is organised by IFLA News Media Section
Important Dates 2017 31 March: Proposal abstracts due 24 March: Acceptance notices sent to authors 30 June: Completed papers and presentations submitted 16-17 August: Conference 18 August: “Social Event: Saxon Flair and baroque places: Dresden, Meissen, Moritzburg”

Digitisation Days & DATeCH Call for Sponsorship
2017-06-01 - 2017-06-02 | University of Göttingen, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
The IMPACT Centre of Competence is organising together with the University of Göttingen a new edition of the Digitisation Days and the DATeCH International Conference, in Göttingen on 1-2 June, 2017.
For further information, please visit http://ddays.digitisation.eu. Important Dates 13 January 2017 – Abstract submission deadline 20 January 2017 – Paper submission deadline 28 February 2017 – Decision notification 31 March 2017 – Camera-ready papers due 1-2 June 2017 – Conference Last news about this event Suscribe newsletter!
We are offering companies the opportunity to join us as sponsors with three different levels:
Gold Partner

Member of Impact Centre: 3000€
No member of Impact Centre: 4000€

We offer:

A 10-minute commercial presentation during the DATeCH conference sessions.
A stand at the place where coffee breaks and lunch will be served, so all attendees will be present.
Identification as sponsor on the conference communication (web site, programme document, etc.)
The company documentation to be included in the attendees’ folder (the documentation has to be sent printed to SUB Uni Göttingen* at least 2 weeks before the conference, that is, by May 15th).
Access to printed attendees list (with institutions names).

Silver Partner

Member of Impact Centre: 2500€
No member of Impact Centre: 3500€

We offer:

A stand at the place where coffee breaks and lunch will be served, so all attendees will be present.
Identification as sponsor on the conference communication (web site, programme document, etc.)
The company documentation to be included in the attendees’ folder (the documentation has to be sent printed to SUB Uni Göttingen* at least 2 weeks before the conference, that is, by May 15th).
Access to printed attendees list (with institutions names).

Bronze Partner

Member of Impact Centre: 1000€
No member of Impact Centre: 2000€

We offer:

Identification as sponsor on the conference communication (web site, programme document, etc.)
The company documentation to be included in the attendees’ folder (the documentation has to be sent printed to SUB Uni Göttingen* at least 2 weeks before the conference, that is, by May 15th).
Access to printed attendees list (with institutions names).

The call for sponsorship will be open until April 10th, don’t miss your opportunity to showcase your products and services to the most important CH institutions. The last edition of the DDays was attended by over 180 people coming from the main institutions of CH, European policy makers and other personalities.

Digitisation at the BnF: Introduction to an experience and a workflow
2017-04-19 12:00 - 13:00
Sesion lead

Jean-Baptiste Vaisman and Jean-Philippe Moreux (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

Description

The webinar will present the large experience of the BnF in mass digitisation and digitisation processes (OCR, digital archiving, …). The BnF also offers access to its digital library Gallica obtained through the library’s commitment to the digitisation of selected items of its collections. Gallica now contains over 3,5 million digitised documents: manuscripts, sound materials and music score, books, images and newspapers issues, in French and other languages. They cover all domains of knowledge, with a specific focus in literature and history.Together with these collections, all in public domain, Gallica gives access to digitised documents belonging to French partner libraries as well as a set of copyrighted documents in collaboration with the French Publishers Association, some publishers and e-retailers.

Recording

Digitisation at the British Library: Introduction to business models and processes
2016-12-14 10:30 - 11:30
Sesion lead

Rossitza Atanassova (The British Library)

Description

The British Library has a large digitisation portfolio and currently there are about 25 initiatives at the British Library which vary in terms of scale, funding models and process. Digitisation is delivered both internally and through partnerships and the Library has been investing in infrastructure and business process developments. The presentation will explain the processes in place for planning and delivery of internal digitisation projects, including standards and technical developments to support ingest and access to digitised content via the Universal Viewer. It will also highlight some of the digitisation partnerships with culture heritage institutions and commercial companies.

Recording
