Author Archives: King Ross
Archives and digital repositories in an eGovernment context: When the subsequent bird catches the worm
Hannes Kulovits, Rui Gamito, José Barateiro, José Borbinha, Andreas Rauber, Milord Mazive, Domingos João and Christoph Becker: Archives and digital repositories in an eGovernment context: When the subsequent bird catches the worm In: IST-Africa 2012 Conference Proceedings, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2012, … Continue reading
Registration open for the first SCAPE training event
Registration is now open for the first SCAPE Project training event “Keeping Control: Scalable Preservation Environments for Identification and Characterisation”. This first SCAPE training event will take place on 6-7 December 2012 in Guimarães, Portugal. The event is being held … Continue reading
Blog post on SCAPE at iPres2012
Last week SCAPE participated in the iPres2012 conference (1-5 October, Toronto, Canada), with several papers and a full-day workshop on ‘Open research challenges in digital preservation’. Inge Angevaare, coordinator of the NCDD (Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation), wrote an interesting … Continue reading
SCAPE at upcoming conferences (September – October 2012)
ACIVS 2012 4-7 September 2012, Brno, Czech Republic http://acivs.org/acivs2012/ A SCAPE research paper on “Quality assurance for document image collections in digital preservation” will be presented by Reinhold Huber-Mörk and Alexander Schindler (AIT). This paper shows an approach to image based … Continue reading
KrakeN: N-Ary Facts in Open Information Extraction
Alan Akbik, Alexander Löser: KrakeN: N-Ary Facts in Open Information Extraction In: The Knowledge Extraction Workshop at NAACL-HLT, 2012 (7-8 June 2012, Montréal, Canada) Abstract Current techniques for Open Information Extraction (OIE) focus on the extraction of binary facts and suffer … Continue reading
SCAPE at upcoming conferences (May – July 2012)
From May to July 2012, SCAPE project members will be participating in the following conferences: IST Africa 2012 (9-11 May 2012, Tanzania, http://www.ist-africa.org/home/), SCAPE will participate with the following joint SCAPE-TIMBUS paper in session 3a eGovernment: “Archives and digital repositories in … Continue reading
Tool highlight: Jpylyzer
The JP2 format (which is part of the JPEG 2000 image compression standard) is getting increasingly popular for storing digitised content, both for access and preservation. However, quality control of JP2 imaging workflows has been poorly addressed so far. By … Continue reading
FactCrawl: A Retrieval Framework for Full-Text Indices
Christoph Boden, Alexander Löser, Christoph Nagel, and Stephan Pieper FactCrawl: A Fact Retrieval Framework for Full-Text Indices In: 14th International Workshop on the Web at SIGMOD 2011, Databases WebDB 2011 , 2011. Abstract We present FactCrawl, a framework for retrieving structured, factual … Continue reading
D12.1 Preservation Watch Component Architecture
This report describes the concepts of Automated Watch. It analyses the baseline of preservation planning and monitoring in reference models and in the background of the project, and it specifies the capabilities required for automated preservation watch. Based on an … Continue reading
