CLARIN Annual Conference 2023
2023-10-16 08:00 - 2023-10-18 17:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Irish College Leuven, Janseniusstraat 1, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
The CLARIN Annual Conference is the main annual event for those working on the construction and operation of CLARIN across Europe, as well as for representatives of the communities of use in the humanities and social sciences.

CLARIN2023 is organised for the wider humanities and social sciences communities in order to exchange ideas and experiences within the CLARIN infrastructure. This includes the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or for which there is a need, its actual use by researchers, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure.

EuropeanaTech 2023
2023-10-10 08:00 - 2023-10-12 17:00 (Europe/Madrid)
EuropeanaTech 2023 – Explore, Engage, Experience: cultural heritage in the data space and beyond will be taking place in The Hague, the Netherlands, from 10 – 12 October 2023.

The conference is for all tech-minded professionals, developers, researchers and students working in and around digital cultural heritage across the globe. It will be a fantastic opportunity to meet with, learn from and work with your peers, as well as to become part of a community dedicated to Tech in culture, and explore the challenges and opportunities that topics like AI and 3D bring to the sector.

27th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
2023-09-26 08:00 - 2023-09-29 17:00 (Europe/Madrid) | II Palaces, Trg Petra Zoranića 1, Zadar, 23000, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) is a yearly date for researchers on Digital Libraries and related topics. For over twenty-five years TPDL has been an international reference forum focused on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. TPDL encompasses the many meanings of the term “digital libraries”, including new forms of information institutions; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing. Digital libraries may be viewed as a new form of information institution or as an extension of the services libraries currently provide. Representatives from academia, government, industry, research communities, research infrastructures, and others are invited to participate in this annual conference. The conference draws from a broad and multidisciplinary array of research areas including computer science, information science, librarianship, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, technology, social sciences, cultural heritage and humanities, and scientific communities. This year its focus is on bridging the wide field of Research and Information Science with the related field of Digital Libraries. Indeed, TPDL historically approached on “Digital libraries” embracing the field at large also comprehending three key areas of interest that can be synthesized as scholarly communication (e.g. research data, research software, digital experiments, digital libraries), e-science/computationally-intense research (e.g. scientific workflows, Virtual Research Environments, reproducibility) and library, archive and information science (e.g. governance, policies, open access, open science). This emphasises TPDL’s role over the last 25 years as a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners whose work intersects with Digital Libraries. Regardless of how your work connects with Digital Libraries, we invite you to participate.

IMPACT 10th Anniversary Workshop and Writing Sprint
2022-12-12 13:00 - 2022-12-13 17:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Universidad de Alicante, Ctra de San Vicente del Raspeig, S/N, Alicante, 03560, Spain
Established in December 2012, the IMPACT Centre of Competence in Digitisation will celebrate its 10th Birthday on 12th December 2022. With its foundation in the European-funded IMProving ACcess to Text project (2008-2012) and strengthened through the SUCCEED project (2013-2014).While IMPACT’s original vision of “making digitisation: better, faster and cheaper”, still holds true, a key challenge is how to integrate state-of-the-art digitisation research into day-to-day digitisation practices and operations. As we reach our 10th Anniversary, now is the ideal opportunity to review our achievements of the past and make plans for the future.
The aim of the IMPACT 10th Birthday Workshop and Writing Sprint is to document the key themes and challenges for the international digitisation community as well pave the way for establishing a common interdisciplinary research agenda for cultural heritage; digital humanities; computer and data science, applied to the field of digitisation. Building on our IMPACT Action Plan 2022, which outlines the crucial role that the Centre of Competence has to play in the digitisation landscape, the workshop will bring together key members from the IMPACT Community, alongside a range of experts and interested parties who are active in the international digitisation community.
The output of the workshop will be an IMPACT 10th Anniversary White Paper, provisionally entitled: Sharing and Sustaining Digitisation Knowledge. It is expected to explore a number of key themes such as: Digitisation Quality and Standards; Datafication of Digitised Cultural Heritage; Digitisation Workflows and Tools and Digitisation Community Management.
The IMPACT 10th Birthday Workshop and Writing Sprint will take place from 12th-14th December 2022 at the University of Alicante, Spain. Participation in the workshop is free of charge and based on by invitation only.
IMPACT 10th Bday Workshop – List of recommended hotels
Draft programme
Monday 12th December 2022
10:00 Meeting of the Editorial Team (IMPACT Core Team & Theme Leaders)
13:00 Welcome. Aims and Objectives of the Workshop. Introduction of the key themes:

Digitisation Quality and Standards
Datafication of Digitised Cultural Heritage
Digitisation Workflows and Tools
Digitisation Community Management

13:30 Writing sprint: Introductory session
14:00 Writing Sprint: Session 1: Definition of Theme and Key Challenges
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Writing Sprint: Key Challenges Cross-Check
16:15 Reporting Back on Session 1
17:30 Birthday Celebration and Welcome University of Alicante and IMPACT Executive Board

17:45 KeyNote Panel: The Future of Digitising Cultural Heritage in Europe and Beyond: Key Achievements, Remaining Challenges and Priority Actions
19:00 Birthday Celebration Cocktail
Tuesday 13th December 2022 – Writing Sprint
09:30 Welcome. State of the Art of the Digitisation Community
8 Lightning Talks (5-6 minutes) followed by a discussion
10:30 Coffee
10:40 Writing Sprint: Session 2: State of the Art per Key Theme
12:45 Reporting Back on Session 2
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Writing Sprint: Session 3: Working Group Tasks and Outputs
16:00 Coffee
16:30 Reporting Back on Session 3 and Wrap-up
20:00 Social Dinner (Self-paid)
Wednesday 14th December 2022 – Editorial Team
09:30 Welcome and Review of the Writing Sprint
10:00 Editorial Sprint
12:00 Wrap up Session
12:30 Departure / light lunch

Towards implementing Collections as Data in GLAM institutions
2022-10-25 15:30 - 16:45 (Europe/Madrid)
The webinar will bring together theory and practice on how to make available GLAM digital collections as datasets for publication and re-use by researchers, GLAM professionals, creative workers and other users. As the options for preparing collections as data are nearly endless, starting the implementation of the Collections as Data principle may be daunting. To support GLAM institutions to start on this journey, the webinar gives a practical overview of the steps that can be taken and presents some of the choices to be made. You will also learn about real-life examples from the National Library of Scotland, the German National Library, the Library of Congress, Europeana, KBR – Royal Library of Belgium and the Royal Danish Library.
To be able to cater the webinar to the community’s needs and in order to understand the current knowledge and uptake of the Collections as Data principle in GLAM institutions, we invite you to complete a brief survey (up to 10 minutes) by October 20th, 2022. The survey results will also be integrated in research related to enhancing the application of the Collections as Data principle in GLAM institutions.
This webinar is open to all and free to attend. Registration is necessary and possible via this link: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuduupqT4pE9ASLO7lOC7yXflrK__oMVmK

TPDL 2022
2022-09-20

87th IFLA WLIC 2022
2022-07-26
After three years without the opportunity to meet in person, IFLA WLIC is going once again for a physical conference.WLIC 2022 will be an opportunity to share, learn and innovate, but also to reunite with friends and colleagues after a long break. The WLIC conference will be held for first time ever in Ireland.
In conjunction with the Irish National Committee, IFLA will be confirming activities and publishing more information as the Congress plans develop.

LIBER 2022
2022-07-06
Held in late June or early July, the conference brings library directors and their staff together for three days of networking and collaboration. Delegates mainly come from Europe but people from around the world are welcome, and we regularly welcome guests from countries including Australia, Canada and the United States.
The goal of the conference is to identify the most pressing needs for research libraries, and to share information and ideas for addressing those needs.
Before the main conference, many delegates join workshops and meetings for LIBER Working Groups, and following the conference social events such as tours of the area are arranged for those who wish to participate.

Web Archiving Conference 2022
2022-05-23 | Virtual
The General Assembly (GA) and the Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2022 will be hosted online by the Library of Congress and the IIPC. The GA will be organised on May 17-19 as a series of meetings for IIPC members and will accommodate all IIPC time zones. WAC will begin with a day of workshops on May 23, and continue with the conference from May 24-25, trying to accommodate as many time zones as possible.
Conference format
The conference program will consist primarily of live Q&A sessions. Presenter will be asked to create a 10-15 minute video presentation which will be published (with password protection) on Vimeo, and accessed by registered delegates before the Conference. These videos will not be played during the conference sessions. If presentations are recorded in languages other than English, the presenters will be asked to provide captions in English.
During the live Q&A session, each participant will be asked to give a short summary of their presentation (without slides) before the program committee assigned moderator opens the Q&A. Delegates will have the opportunity to submit questions in advance of the conference and during the live session. The Q&A sessions will be in English.
In addition to a poster (in the form of one or more slides), authors of posters and demos with accompanying lightning talks will be asked to submit a short video (up to 5 minutes) which will be published on Vimeo and also played during the live poster sessions.
Follow #iipcGA22 | #iipWAC22 for latests updates.

IMPACT/OPF/IIPC VIRTUAL PANEL: PRESERVATION OF DIGITISED AND BORN-DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
2022-03-24 14:30 - 15:45 (Europe/Madrid) | online
The Open Preservation Foundation (OPF), the Impact Centre of Competence in Digitisation (IMPACT) and the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) are delighted to invite you to our first joint Virtual Panel on Thursday 24th March at 13:30 UTC (London), 14:30 CET (Brussels) and 09:30 EDT (Washington D.C.).

Overview

The management, curation and preservation of digital collections increasingly includes both digitised and born-digital materials. To what extent are these collections managed by the same internal workflows? How far are digitised and born-digital collections part of a joined-up digital strategy? In what ways do experts from the digitisation, web and social media archiving and digital preservation teams work together? Are the available preservation solutions suitable for both digitised and born-digital materials? In what ways are digitised and born-digital materials made available to digital humanities researchers and the wider public?
In this 75 minute virtual panel, experts from OPF, IMPACT and IIPC Member institutions will explore this complex question at three levels. Firstly,organisationally, where do preservation, digitisation, and web and social media archiving ‘fit’ in your organisation? Secondly, which policies cover preservation, digitisation, and web and social media archiving? Thirdly, in what areas do interconnections between digitisation experts and born-digital curators and preservation teams already exist or would be beneficial?
The aim of this session is to create an informal exchange of best practices, between OPF, IMPACT and IIPC Member institutions to explore which interconnections would be valuable both within and between organisations to help ensure the sustainable, long-term preservation and use of digitised and born-digital collections.

Audience & Registration

This workshop is intended for colleagues involved in digitisation, preservation or web and social media archiving. Priority registration will be available for OPF, IMPACT and IIPC Member institutions.
From 1st March 2022, registration is open to all.

Register Panelists

Dr. Emmanuelle Bermès is deputy director for services and networks at the National library of France (BnF) since 2014. In the course of her career at the BnF and the Centre Pompidou, Emmanuelle has developed an expertise in digital heritage, her PhD subject. She has been active in several international initiatives: Europeana, W3C, IFLA, the International internet preservation consortium (IIPC), the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) consortium and the ai4lam community (artificial intelligence for libraries, archives and museums). Within the BnF, Emmanuelle is involved in the Data Lab, a digital scholarship service for researchers. Photo: © Gabriel Bermes–Poupeau. Jeffrey van der Hoeven is head of the Digital Preservation department at the National Library of the Netherlands. In this role, he is responsible for defining the policies, strategies and organisational implementation of digital preservation at the library, with the goal to keep the digital collections accessible to current users and generations to come. Jeffrey is also director of the Open Preservation Foundation and steering committee member at the IIPC. In previous roles, he has been involved in various national and international preservation projects such as the European projects PLANETS, KEEP, PARSE.insight and APARSEN. Michael Day is Digital Preservation Research Lead at the British Library (United Kingdom). He is a member of the team that is helping to ensure that the Library’s extensive digital collections are preserved for future generations. He is particularly interested in promoting a deeper understanding of the Library’s diverse and ever-growing digital collections and in developing the necessary knowledge and tools required to support preservation planning for digital content. Before joining the British Library in 2013, Michael worked for seventeen years as a researcher and research manager at the University of Bath. Photo: © Sam Lane Photography.

Preservation of Digitised and Born-digital Collections: Interconnections, Policies and Workflows
2022-03-24 13:30 - 14:30 (Europe/Madrid)
The management, curation and preservation of digital collections increasingly includes both digitised and born-digital materials. To what extent are these collections managed by the same internal workflows? How far are digitised and born-digital collections part of a joined-up digital strategy? In what ways do experts from the digitisation, web and social media archiving and digital preservation teams work together? Are the available preservation solutions suitable for both digitised and born-digital materials? In what ways are digitised and born-digital materials made available to digital humanities researchers and the wider public?In this 75 minute virtual panel, experts from OPF, IMPACT and IIPC Member institutions will explore this complex question at three levels. Firstly,organisationally, where do preservation, digitisation, and web and social media archiving ‘fit’ in your organisation? Secondly, which policies cover preservation, digitisation, and web and social media archiving? Thirdly, in what areas do interconnections between digitisation experts and born-digital curators and preservation teams already exist or would be beneficial?The aim of this session is to create an informal exchange of best practices, between OPF, IMPACT and IIPC Member institutions to explore which interconnections would be valuable both within and between organisations to help ensure the sustainable, long-term preservation and use of digitised and born-digital collections.

Audience & Registration

This workshop is intended for colleagues involved in digitisation, preservation or web and social media archiving. Priority registration will be available for OPF, IMPACT and IIPC Member institutions.

From 1st March 2022, registration is open to all.

Sesion lead

Dr Emmanuelle Bermès, National Library of France (BnF)

Dr. Emmanuelle Bermès is deputy director for services and networks at the National library of France (BnF) since 2014. In the course of her career at the BnF and the Centre Pompidou, Emmanuelle has developed an expertise in digital heritage, her PhD subject. She has been active in several international initiatives: Europeana, W3C, IFLA, the International internet preservation consortium (IIPC), the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) consortium and the ai4lam community (artificial intelligence for libraries, archives and museums). Within the BnF, Emmanuelle is involved in the Data Lab, a digital scholarship service for researchers. Photo: © Gabriel Bermes–Poupeau.

Jeffrey van der Hoeven, National Library of the Netherlands (KB)

Jeffrey van der Hoeven is head of the Digital Preservation department at the National Library of the Netherlands. In this role, he is responsible for defining the policies, strategies and organisational implementation of digital preservation at the library, with the goal to keep the digital collections accessible to current users and generations to come. Jeffrey is also director of the Open Preservation Foundation and steering committee member at the IIPC. In previous roles, he has been involved in various national and international preservation projects such as the European projects PLANETS, KEEP, PARSE.insight and APARSEN.

Michael Day, British Library (BL)

Michael Day is Digital Preservation Research Lead at the British Library (United Kingdom). He is a member of the team that is helping to ensure that the Library’s extensive digital collections are preserved for future generations. He is particularly interested in promoting a deeper understanding of the Library’s diverse and ever-growing digital collections and in developing the necessary knowledge and tools required to support preservation planning for digital content. Before joining the British Library in 2013, Michael worked for seventeen years as a researcher and research manager at the University of Bath.

Moderator: Sally Chambers (IMPACT Centre of Competence)

Recording

6th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP’21)
2021-09-05 - 2021-09-06 | Beaulieu Convention Center, Avenue des Bergières 10, Lausanne, 1004, Switzerland
HIP aims to provide the researchers with a forum that is complementary and synergetic to the main sessions at ICDAR on document analysis and recognition. The manifold topics addressed in this workshop encompass the entire processing chain from image acquisition to information extraction. We include the growing importance of machine learning in this processing chain, such as convolutional and recurrent neural networks, and we encourage the presentation of entire projects in the context of historical documents.
HIP’21 is organised by Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (PRImA) group of the University of Salford together with the Berlin State Library.

INTELE Workshop
2020-11-25 08:30 - 14:00 (Europe/Madrid) | online
Schedule:
8.30 Connexion
9.00 OPENING
9.00 INTELE presentation by network coordinator: German Rigau
9.15 Franciska de Jong CLARIN Director (English)
9.35 Frank Fisher DARIAH Director (English)
9.55 Q&A
10.15 Break
10.30 Invited speaker: Darja Fišer CLARIN use cases (English)
11:30 Break
12.00 Academic round table.
Presenter: Dolores Romero (UCM)
Participants:

José Luis Bueren: Biblioteca Nacional de España
Paul Spence: Humanidades Digitales (King’s College London).
Salvador Ros: Proyecto DESIR (UNED)
Gustavo Candela Romero: IMPACT CLARIN K-CENTRE/Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes
Mikel Iruskieta: The Spanish CLARIN K-CENTRE
José Antonio Berenguer: Centro de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales del CSIC

13:30 Closing session
* Poster presentation of research groups all day on INTELE website.

EADH 2020
2020-09-26 - 2020-09-29 | Siberian Federal University, Svobodnyy Ave, 79, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
The 2nd European Association for Digital Humanities International Conference will be held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, and it will be hosted by the Siberian Federal University on 22-25 September, 2020.

iPres2020
2020-09-21 - 2020-09-24 | National Science Library, 33 Beisihuan Xilu, Zhongguancun, Beijing, China
The 17th edition of the International Conference on Digital Preservation will be held on 21-24 September in Beijing, China.

EURALEX2020
2020-09-08 - 2020-09-12 | Ramada Plaza Thraki, 4th klm National Road, Alexandroupolis, Thessaloniki, Greece
The XIX EURALEX International Congress will be held in Alexandroupolis, Greece, on 8-12 September, 2020. The Conference is organised by SynMorPhoSe Lab of the Department of Greek Philology at the Democritus University of Thrace. The main topic this edition is “Lexicography for Inclusion”.

TPDL2020
2020-08-25 - 2020-08-28 | University of Lyon, 92 rue Pasteur, Lyon, 69007, France
The 24th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) will be held in Lyon, France, on 25-28 August 2020. The Conference will take place at University of Lyon and IUT Lyon 3, together with the conferences ADBIS (European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems) and EDA (EDA Days EDA “Business Intelligence & Big Data”).

IFLA WLIC 2020
2020-08-15 - 2020-08-21 | The Convention Centre Dublin, Spencer Dock, N Wall Quay, Dublin, Ireland
The 86th edition of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress will take place in Dublin on 15-21 August, 2020.

DH2020
2020-07-20 - 2020-07-25
The Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) DH2020 Conference will take place on 20-25 July, 2020 in Ottawa, and is co-hosted by the University of Ottawa and the University of Carleton.

ICNLP2020
2020-07-11 - 2020-07-13 | Guangdong University of Technology, No. 100 Waihuan Xi Road, Guangzhou, 510006, China
The 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing will be held at Guangdong University of Technology, in Guangzhou, China, on 11-13 July, 2020.

LIBER 2020 Annual Conference
2020-06-24 - 2020-06-26 | University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 3, Beograd, Serbia
The LIBER Annual Conference 2020 will be held in Belgrade, Serbia and will be hosted by the Univerzitetska Biblioteka Svetozar Markovic.

JCDL2020
2020-06-19 - 2020-06-23 | The Westin Wuhan Wuchang, No.96 Linjiang Avenue, Wuhan, 430062, China
The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries will be held on 19-23 June, 2020 in Wuhan, China. The Conference will be hosted by School of Information Management at Wuhan University.

DAS 2020
2020-05-17 - 2020-05-20 | Lytown Hotel, Guanggu Avenue, Wuhan, China
The 14th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems will take place in Wuhan, China on 17-20 May, 2020, and will be hosted by Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).

LREC2020
2020-05-11 08:00 - 2020-05-16 17:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Palais du Pharo, 58 Boulevard Charles Livon, Marseille, 13007, France
The 12th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference will be held in Marseille on 11-16 May, 2020, and is organised by the European Language Resources Association

DHN2020
2020-03-17 - 2020-03-20 | National Library of Latvia, Mūkusalas iela 3, Riga, Latvia
The Digital Humanities in Nordic Countries DHN2020 conference will be held in Riga on 17-20 March, 2020 and is hosted by the National Library of Latvia, the Digital Humanities Group of ILFA, the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AiLab) at IMCS, University of Latvia, and the Nordic Council of Ministers.

ICAART2020
2020-02-22 - 2020-02-24 | Grand Hotel Excelsior, Great Siege Road, Valletta, FRN 1810, Malta
The 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence will be held on 22-24 February, 2020 in Valletta, Malta, and will be organised in conjunction with ICORES2020, BIOSTEC2020 and ICPRAM2020.

Towards an Australian GLAM Labs network
2019-12-11 12:30 (Australia/Melbourne)

Time Machine Conference 2019
2019-10-10 - 2019-10-11 | Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Lingnerplatz 1, Dresden, Dresden, 01069, Germany
The Time Machine project aims to develop the Big Data of the Past, creating a huge distributed digital information system mapping the European social, cultural and geographical evolution across times. This large-scale digitisation and computing infrastructure will enable Europe to turn its long history, as well as its multilingualism and multiculturalism, into a living social and economic resource.
For more info visit: https://www.timemachine.eu/
The Time Machine Conference 2019 takes place in Dresden on 10-11 October.

ICDAR 2019
2019-09-22 - 2019-09-25 | University of Technology Sydney, 15 Broadway, Broadway, New South Wales, NSW 2007, Australia
ICDAR is a very successful and flagship conference series, which is the biggest and premier international gathering for researchers, scientist and practitioners in the document analysis community. The conference is endorsed by IAPR-TC 10/11 and it was established nearly three decades ago. The 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2019) will be organised by University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia and will be held the International Convention Centre (ICC) Sydney. The accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society’s Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

ICDAR2019 Competition on Post-OCR Text Correction
2019-09-20 - 2019-09-25 | University of Technology Sydney, 15 Broadway, Broadway, New South Wales, NSW 2007, Australia
The IMPACT member, Bibliothèque nationale de France, L3i Lab and NewsEye project organises the competition on Post-OCR Text Correction in the frame of the ICDAR2019 Conference that takes place in Sidney on 20-25 September, 2019.
A selection of the IMPACT Dataset will be used in this competition.
Important dates

Mid February, 2019: Training dataset available
March 30, 2019: Registration deadline
April 26, 2019: Result submission
20-26 September, 2019: Conference

For further information, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/icdar2019-postcorrectionocr/home
