IMPACT Centre of Competence

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Transkribus platform to come together and learn more about possibilities for the automatic processing of handwritten historical documents.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 (Europe/Madrid) | CDMX
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.

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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 | CDMX
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.

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Digitisation at the British Library: Introduction to business models and processes
2016-12-14 10:30 - 11:30 | CDMX
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.

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