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SCAPE at upcoming conferences (January 2013)
HICSS Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 7-10 January 2013, Hawaii, USA http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu During this conference, Minitrack 46 – Multi-criteria Decision Support, Christoph Becker, Michael Kraxner, Markus Plangg and Andreas Rauber (TU Wien) will be presenting the paper “Improving decision … Continue reading
1st SCAPE Training Event: Keeping Control – Scalable Preservation Environments for Identification and Characterisation
Event date: 12/06/2012 – 12/07/2012 Location: Archaeological Museum of the Martins Sarmento Society, Rua Paio Galvão, Guimarães PT Link Overview One of the biggest initial challenges to digital preservation is file format identification. While there has been a lot of work in … Continue reading
iPres2012 papers available
All SCAPE project papers that were presented at iPres2012, the 9th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (1-5 October, Toronto) are now available in the Publications_section. To read the complete conference proceedings, please go to the iPres2012_website
Report: Open Research Challenges Workshop @ iPRES 2012
On Tuesday, October 7 at the iPRES 2012 conference an Open Research Challenges Workshop, organised jointly by SCAPE and the University of North Carolina, took place. The first results from the workshop have been gathered in a blog-post on the … Continue reading
CURATEcamp 24 hour worldwide hackathon feat. SCAPE
The CURATEcamp 24 hour worldwide file id hackathon will take place on Friday, November 16. Developers from Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and US will participate, and a number of SCAPE programmers will take part. The event will be a … 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
New SCAPE publications available
SCAPE has been presented at a number of conferences during the summer of 2012. Publicly available SCAPE papers from OR2012 and CBMI 2012 can be viewed here: Apache Hadoop as a Storage Backend for Fedora Commons, Open Repositories 2012 Towards … Continue reading
Quality Assurance for Document Image Collections in Digital Preservation
Reinhold Huber-Mörk, Alexander Schindler: Quality Assurance for Document Image Collections in Digital Preservation In: Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012, Volume 7517/2012, 108-119, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33140-4_10 Abstract Maintenance of digital image libraries requires to frequently asses … 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
Second SCAPE Newsletter released
The second SCAPE newsletter is now available. This issue features include an interview with Barbara Sierman, Digital Preservation Manager at the National Library of the Netherlands, an overview of the xcorrSound tool and information about the upcoming training events. order … Continue reading
