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D-Lib Mar/Apr 2014 George V. Landon |
Report on the 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP'13) Technical areas covered in the workshop included information extraction and retrieval; reconstruction and degradation; text and image recognition and segmentation; and layout analysis and databases.  |
D-Lib May 2005 Seales & Landon |
The Museum and the Media Divide: Building and Using Digital Collections at the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena A look at the challenges involved in acquiring, organizing and accessing museum collections to make them meaningfully available within typical budgetary and technical constraints.  |
D-Lib January 2000 Dan Huttenlocher & Angela Moll |
On DigiPaper and the Dissemination of Electronic Documents Proposal for a new image-based document representation, called DigiPaper, which is designed to easily disseminate electronic documents with a guaranteed appearance. DigiPaper's compression performance is analyzed.  |
D-Lib March 2006 Choudhury et al. |
Document Recognition for a Million Books Transcription represents only one component of document recognition. The presence of a large-scale book image corpus significantly raises the possibilities for document recognition capabilities, especially given the potential for statistical inferences or analyses.  |
Searcher May 2002 David Mattison |
Images of History on the Web While one can use image search engines to retrieve historical photographs, the lack of precision caused by keyword searching and the limitations of the general search engines to target historic photographs lead to wasted time and effort. Other search strategies are described here...  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2000 Gregory Crane |
Designing Documents to Enhance the Performance of Digital Libraries: Time, Space, People and a Digital Library on London In a mature digital library (DL), documents should coexist with a Geographic Information System (GIS).  |
D-Lib March 2006 Gregory Crane |
What Do You Do with a Million Books? The ability to extract from the stored record of humanity useful information in an actionable format for any given human being of any culture at any time and in any place will not emerge quickly, but the fundamental tools on which such a system would be built are moving forward.  |
D-Lib March 2006 Schibel & Rydberg-Cox |
Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library Digital libraries have the potential to transform fields such as early modern studies, where problems of physical access to sources and intellectual access to their contents have hampered our ability to contemplate major topics.  |
D-Lib February 2008 Edwin Klijn |
The Current State-of-Art in Newspaper Digitization: A Market Perspective The market and technology adjust to accommodate the trend of newspaper collection digitization by libraries.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2011 Gauthereau-Bryson et al. |
Digitization Practices for Translations: Lessons Learned from the Our Americas Archive Partnership Project This paper discusses the complexities involved in digitizing multilingual historical documents, including practices for creating "born-digital" translations and unique metadata to best describe these rare, primary documents.  |
D-Lib February 2001 Manfred Thaller |
From the Digitized to the Digital Library Many, if not most, digitization projects have aimed at existing collections as individual servers. A digital library, however, should be more than a digitized one...  |
D-Lib February 2002 Lensch, Goesele & Seidel |
Digital Collections of Real World Objects An efficient method for acquiring high quality models of real world objects is presented. The resulting digital models can be viewed under arbitrary viewing and lighting conditions. The technique is well suited for large digital collections.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 Jacobs & Jacobs |
The Digital-Surrogate Seal of Approval: a Consumer-oriented Standard The word "digitization" hides more than it reveals. To know that a book has been digitized does not begin to tell librarians or users what they need to know.  |
D-Lib October 2009 Ooghe & Moreels |
Analysing Selection for Digitisation: Current Practices and Common Incentives Can/should all documents that pass the initial test of appraisal also remain stored indefinitely? What are the requirements for long-term preservation? At what point (if ever) do digital collections become too large to handle?  |
Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project.  |
PC Magazine March 15, 2006 Helen Bradley |
Scanning Made Easy Two hidden Microsoft Office tools could save you hours of work.  |
Searcher January 2008 Ashmore & Grogg |
The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S.  |
D-Lib January 2006 Linden & Green |
Don't Leave the Data in the Dark: Issues in Digitizing Print Statistical Publications Statistical digitization projects must make investments in adequate metadata and object-oriented design at the point of digitization - otherwise, the data are in danger of losing their context  |
D-Lib January 2002 Suzana Sukovic |
Beyond the scriptorium: The Role of the Library in Text Encoding Development of electronic textual resources means dealing with documents in new ways and on different levels, often involving work on a document's content through text encoding. This development challenges the library's assumed position in the research process...  |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2004 David Mattison |
Looking for Good Art Part 3: Glorious National Collections With an unimaginable wealth of art digitally accessible and preserved for us and future generations by art history institutions outside the U.S., the international Web of the Western art world is truly one of the most remarkable achievements of our digital age. Here links to directories and guides.  |
D-Lib Nov?Dec 2010 Noonan et al. |
PDF/A: A Viable Addition to the Preservation Toolkit We describe the format itself, the lessons learned as the authors investigated the tools readily available for creating PDF/A files and the design of the pilot to test implementation of the use of the format in The Ohio State University's repository, the Knowledge Bank.  |
D-Lib March 2003 Arlitsch et al. |
The Utah Digital Newspapers Project This article describes a new method for digitizing historic newspapers, developed in a partnership between the University of Utah and two commercial organizations.  |
D-Lib April 2000 Clare L. Birdsey |
Creating Accessible Digital Imagery The development and implementation of one digital access programme are the subject of this article.  |
D-Lib December 2007 Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 Dawei & Yigang |
The National Digital Library Project This paper introduces the National Digital Library Project (NDLP) in China, and covers its basic characteristics, objectives, and content.  |
D-Lib March 2003 Ian H. Witten |
Examples of Practical Digital Libraries: Collections Built Internationally Using Greenstone The Greenstone Digital Library Software provides a way of building and distributing digital library collections, opening up new possibilities for organizing information and making it available over the Internet or on CD-ROM.  |
Investment Advisor February 1, 2011 Dan Skiles |
Building an Efficient Document Imaging Strategy The good news regarding document imaging and management is that most advisors are already storing some of their documents electronically. The challenge for advisors is making sure that they have the right system in place for their firm.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2015 Parilla & Blase |
The Value of Flexibility on Long-term Value of Grant Funded Projects The Field Book Project is an initiative to increase accessibility to field book content that documents natural history.  |
D-Lib March 2006 Daniel J. Cohen |
From Babel to Knowledge: Data Mining Large Digital Collections High-quality digitization and thorough text markup may be attractive for those creating digital collections, but a familiarity with information theory and data-mining techniques makes one realize that it may be more worthwhile to digitize a greater number of books or documents at a lower standard for the same cost.  |
PC Magazine September 13, 2006 M. David Stone |
Expert View: The True Blue Document Scanner There must be a simple, one-step option to scan, recognize, and save the file.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2014 Tkaczyk et al. |
GROTOAP2 -- The Methodology of Creating a Large Ground Truth Dataset of Scientific Articles In this paper we present GROTOAP2 -- a large dataset of ground truth files containing labelled fragments of scientific articles in PDF format, useful for training and evaluation of document content analysis-related solutions.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2014 DeRidder & Matheny |
What Do Researchers Need? Feedback On Use of Online Primary Source Materials A qualitative study of 11 humanities faculty researchers at the University of Alabama, describes and rates the importance of various issues encountered when using 29 participant-selected online databases.  |
D-Lib May 2003 Marcum & Friedlander |
Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history  |
D-Lib October 2001 Ian H. Witten |
Greenstone: Open-Source Digital Library Software The Greenstone digital library software is an open-source system for the construction and presentation of information collections. It builds collections with effective full-text searching and metadata-based browsing facilities that are attractive and easy to use...  |
Search Engine Watch December 14, 2004 Gary Price |
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database.  |
D-Lib November 2000 Dale Flecker |
Harvard's Library Digital Initiative Building a First Generation Digital Library Infrastructure...  |
D-Lib October 2001 Brewster Kahle |
Public Access to Digital Material The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world...  |
D-Lib November 2001 Linda Pearce |
Lessons Learned: The Development of Electronic Reserves at the University of Calgary This article lays out the issues surrounding the in-house development of a fully featured electronic reserve platform known as Allectra at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada...  |
Macworld August 4, 2006 Jennifer Berger |
Epson GT-2500 document scanner The Epson GT-2500 document scanner is great if you need a combination of high-quality photo scans along with scans of regular text documents and the flat bed for specialized scanning, but it may be overkill for some normal business users  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2009 Kulovits et al. |
From TIFF to JPEG 2000? Preservation planning at the Bavarian State Library using a collection of digitized 16th century printings.  |
D-Lib September 2002 Schmidt et al. |
Building Digital Tobacco Industry Document Libraries Few digital libraries begin with the drama that accompanied creation of the University of California San Francisco's (UCSF) Tobacco Control Archives. UCSF's extensive digital collections of tobacco industry documents began in 1993 with an anonymous donation of documents.  |
Information Today August 21, 2006 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Unifies Digitization Forces with Its Acquisition of DiMeMa In the face of what Cathy De Rosa, vice president of OCLC Marketing and Library Services, referred to as the "exploding" market for digitization by libraries, OCLC has acquired DiMeMa.  |
PC Magazine September 16, 2003 Jeremy A. Kaplan |
Shoot, Scan, Print: Get the Most out of Your Digital-imaging Gear Digital-imaging experts compile their top tips for scanners, cameras, and printers. Some of the suggestions may surprise you. If you've ever been frustrated with your digital-imaging gadgets, take heart: There's always an answer.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Cynthia Tobar |
Music to My Ears: The New York Philharmonic Digital Archives The Philharmonic plans to digitize its entire collection of 8 million pages of documents and 7,000 hours of audio visual material, reflecting the Philharmonic's commitment to providing the broadest possible access to its collections.  |
D-Lib November 2000 |
In Brief Managing Access to Grey Literature Collections... UK Government commits to getting online... Building an Audio-visual Digital Library of Historical Documentaries... High-Level Thesaurus Project... The Program for Cooperative Cataloging Task Force on Multiple Manifestations of Electronic Resources... etc.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2009 Dahlstrom & Doracic |
Digitization Education: Courses Taken and Lessons Learned The aims and nature of cultural heritage (CH) digitization education at The Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), accompanied with a brief overview of Nordic CH digitization education efforts.  |
Information Today December 27, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2010 |
D-Lib Magazine In Brief and In the News Linked Data for Climate Research... Project Cumulus - Getting Services from the Cloud... SURFACE Launch... etc.  |
Financial Advisor February 2010 Joel P. Bruckenstein |
One For The Short List Document management system Image Executive allows advisors to operate more productively, efficiently and securely.  |
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2005 Sullivan & Price |
World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google.  |