Master Class in Text Digitisation, Antwerp, 20-30-9-2016
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Inserito il 10/08/2016
We are glad to notify you already of the following upcoming event:
Demystifying Digitisation: A Hands-On Master Class in Text Digitisation
Antwerp Summer Academy in Digital Humanities 2016,
Jointly organized by DARIAH-BE & DHuF (Digital Humanities Flanders)
The core of the our programme exists of two half-day workshops on software
packages that may help the researcher automate some aspects of the
transcription and text digitization process process. The first will deal
with ABBYY, still one of the best software packages around for OCRing
printed digitised print materials. Focusing on the software’s possible
advantages and pitfalls, this workshop will show the participants how to
prepare their documents in order to achieve the best OCR results. The
second workshop will introduce Transkribus, a software package that has
recently made great advancements in optically recognising characters in
handwritten materials. The workshops are limited to 20 participants each.
The programme will be completed by a number of lectures on related topics,
including mass digitisation, digitisation project workflows and Copyright
issues and Internet Property Rights related to digitization projects.
This two-day workshop will take place from 29 to 30 September 2016 at the
University of Antwerp, Belgium, preceding the DiXiT + ESTS 2016 conference
which will be hosted at the same location. It offers the perfect
opportunity for the conference’s participants and other interested scholars
to become better acquainted with some of the main concerns that need to be
addressed at the outset of both mass- and ad hoc digitisation projects.
More information on the registration procedure etc. and the official call
for participation will follow shortly. Preliminary enquiries can be sent
to: mike.kestemont@uantwerpen.be.
We hope to welcome you in Antwerp,
Sally Chambers
Wout Dillen
Mike Kestemont
Dirk van Hulle
Trudi Noordermeer
