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Introduction to the
impact Centre of
Competence
Aly Conteh
The British Library
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Introduction to the impact Centre of Competence
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Introduction to the impact Centre of Competence
A Centre of Competence in Digitisation: Why?
• Challenges in digitisation of historic material remain
• No lack of novel approaches to improve access: IMPACT and many others
• Challenge: implementation in the production environment
• Challenge: foster further research
• Need for real life datasets with Ground Truth
• Need for real life testing and evaluation
• Need for support in implementing the solutions
• Need to continue collaboration to strengthen competence in the community
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Introduction to the impact Centre of Competence
A Centre of Competence in Digitisation: Who?
Digitisation practitioners in content holding institutions
• Researchers in the field of historical document processing and language technology
• Industry
IMPACT Centre of competence offers distinct value to each of these target groups
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Introduction to the impact Centre of Competence
A Centre of Competence in Digitisation: Benefits for content holders
• Exchange of best practice in community of content holders with digitisation programmes
• Knowledge Bank with comprehensive and up to date information and technology watch reports
• Training on demand and on line tutorials
• Online support through a Helpdesk
• Support in the implementation of the innovative IMPACT solutions
• Access to the IMPACT Dataset with Ground Truth and tools for evaluation
• Digitisation Framework: Guidelines on using the open source workflow management system Taverna in a digitisation workflow
• Access to Language Resources
• Conferences/workshops with focus on demonstration and implementation
• Working together on future practical solutions with scientific communities in the area of pattern recognition, language technology, image processing
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Introduction to the impact Centre of Competence
Knowledge Bank
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Introduction to the impact Centre of Competence
A Centre of Competence in Digitisation: Benefits for Researchers
• New community: Bridging the gap between specialist research and real life needs
• Brings together scientific communities in the area of pattern recognition, language technology, image processing with a focus on large scale digitisation
• Access to content holding community
• Access to large real life datasets and ground truth
• Working on implementation of research prototypes/products into digitisation environment
• Facilities for testing and evaluating new tools and IMPACT tools
• Working groups and committees
• Access to new projects and funding opportunities
• Conferences/workshops with focus on demonstration and implementation
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Introduction to the impact Centre of Competence
A Centre of Competence in Digitisation: Benefits for Industry
• Access to content holding community with large scale digitisation programmes
• Access to large real life datasets and ground truth
• Facilities for testing and evaluating new tools and IMPACT tools
• Attend conferences
• Working groups and committees
• Make yourself known to your clients through register on website
• Sponsorship and exhibition opportunities
• Working together with content holders and researchers on practical solutions
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Introduction to the impact Centre of Competence
“How do we sustain this Centre of Competence?”
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Introduction to the impact Centre of Competence
Membership
Centre Office
PartnerContributions
Website
Centre ofCompetence
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A Centre of Competence in Digitisation: Join Us
Three levels of membership:
• Open (registration) access to forum, limited set of content
• Basic membership (fee): access to all website facilities, reduced fee for conferences
• Premium membership (fee): member of the Board, additional benefits such as free entry to conferences
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A Centre of Competence in Digitisation: Office
Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Want to sign up?
Mail to [email protected] for information on membership
Access through www.digitisation.eu
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Introduction to the impact Centre of Competence
A Centre of Competence in Digitisation: What?
• Not for profit organisation
• Web based international community with small core facility for support
• Curates IMPACT achievements and provides tools, services and facilities for further advancement of the State of the Art in this field
• Focuses on practical solutions
• Distributed effort by IMPACT partners spreads risk and ensures continuing engagement
• Income generation by offering number of resources and services at a fee (mix of subscription and pay as you go)
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Upcoming impact events
• 14-15 November 2011: IMPACT/myGrid Taverna Hackathon (Manchester, UK)http://impact-mygrid-taverna-hackathon.wikispaces.com/
• 7-8 December 2011: DISH2011 Conference (Rotterdam, Netherlands). IMPACT is hosting a joint workshop with BHL(-Europe) and CATCHplus on “After the brainstorm: innovative ways of sustaining project results” www.dish2011.nl
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