CERL Annual Seminar 2014

The Application of Text Encoding Facilities to Digital Versions of European Early Books

Organized by: CERL

Speaker(s): Andrea Mazzei,Bente Lavold,Cristina Dondi,Ellen Nessheim Wiger,Fouad Slimane,Frédéric Rayar,Klaus Kempf,Lambert Schomaker,Marian Lefferts,Marie-Luce Demonet,Martin de la Iglesia,Michael Popham,Tomasz Parkoła,Zane Vitonlina

The CERL Seminar 2014: The application of text encoding facilities to digital versions of European early books, was a very successful event, with some 45 participants hearing presentations about the Impact Center of Competence, the Mother Koren’s diaries project at the National Library of Norway, the use of TEI in the context of text encoding, the work on graphematics and graphical analysis at the Bibliothèque Virtuelles Humanistes in Tours, experiences with OCR at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the University of Oxford, as well as the latter’s participation in the Text Creation Partnership related to ProQuest’s Early English Books Online, Colibrum’s suggestions for generating interest in digitised books and periodicals, the MONK project developed in Groningen and the EPFL’s Venice Time Machine.

Programme

– 9.00-9.15: Registration
– 9.15-9.30: Opening & Welcome, Ulf Göranson (Chairman, CERL

SESSION 1

– 09.30-10.30: About CERL Cristina Dondi and Marian Lefferts (CERL)
– 10.30-11.00: Paper 1 – Tomasz Parkoła (Digital Libraries Team, Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poznan): The Impact Centre of Competence: tools for text digitisation and transcription
11.00-11.30 COFFE

SESSION 2

– 11.30-12.00: Paper 2 – Bente Lavold and Ellen Nessheim Wiger (National Library of Norway, Oslo): From manuscript to epub
– 12.00-12.30: Paper 3 – Marie-Luce Demonet and Frédéric Rayar (University of Tours): Graphical analysis and graphematics for the BVH corpus (Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes)
– 12.30-13.00: Paper 4 – Martin de la Iglesia (Metadata and Data Conversion Group, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen): Metadata and other data in TEI Group
– 13.00-14.00: LUNCH

SESSION 3

– 14.00-14.30: Paper 5 – Klaus Kempf (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich): OCR-ing at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: projects and experiences
– 14.30-15.00: Paper 6: – Michael Popham (Digital Collections and Preservation Services, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford): When not to OCR – the experience of EEBO-TCP
– 15.00-15.30 : Paper 7 – Zane Vitonlina (Colibrum, Riga): How to generate society’s interest in digitized books and periodicals?
– 15.30-16.00: TEA

SESSION 4

– 16.00-16.30: Paper 8 – Lambert Schomaker (Groningen University): The birth of a massive search engine for historical and multi-cultural handwritten collections
– 16.30-17.00: Paper 9 – Andrea Mazzei and Fouad Slimane (Digital Humanities Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL): Incremental and Offline Handwriting Recognition for the Venice Time Machine Lausanne)
– 17:00: Reception

Presentations

Introduction: About CERL Marian Lefferts and Cristina Dondi (CERL)
Paper 1: Tomasz Parkoła (Digital Libraries Team, Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poznan): The Impact Centre of Competence: tools for text digitisation and transcription: presentation
Paper 2: Bente Lavold and Ellen Nessheim Wiger (National Library of Norway, Oslo): From manuscript to epub: presentation
Paper 3: Marie-Luce Demonet and Frédéric Rayar (University of Tours): Graphical analysis and graphematics for the BVH corpus (Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes): presentation
Paper 4: Martin de la Iglesia (Metadata and Data Conversion Group, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen: Metadata and other data in TEI: presentation
Paper 5: Claudia Fabian (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich): OCR-ing at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: projects and experiences: presentation
Paper 6: Michael Popham (Digital Collections and Preservation Services, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford): When not to OCR – the experience of EEBO-TCP: presentation
Paper 7: Zane Vitonlina (Colibrum, Riga): How to generate society’s interest in digitized books and periodicals?: presentation
Paper 8: Lambert Schomaker (Groningen University): The birth of a massive search engine for historical and multi-cultural handwritten collections: presentation
Paper 9: Andrea Mazzei and Fouad Slimane (Digital Humanities Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne): Incremental and Offline Handwriting Recognition for the Venice Time Machine: presentation