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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
A heuristic measure for detecting influence of lossy JP2 compression on OCR in the absence of ground truth
Sven Schlarb, Clemens Neudecker: A heuristic measure for detecting influence of lossy JP2 compression on OCR in the absence of ground truth In: Archiving 2012, June 2012, Vol. 8, p. 250-254; ISBN / ISSN: 978-0-89208-300-8 Abstract Cultural heritage institutions such … Continue reading
Improved validation and feature extraction for JP2 (JPEG 2000 Part 1) images: the jpylyzer tool
Johan van der Knijff, René van der Ark and Carl Wilson: Improved validation and feature extraction for JP2 (JPEG 2000 Part 1) images: the jpylyzer tool In: Archiving 2012, June 2012, Vol. 8, p. 264-269; ISBN / ISSN: 978-0-89208-300-8 Abstract: … Continue reading
The first SCAPE Newsletter is out
The SCAPE project has now launched its first newsletter. We will issue newsletters quarterly throughout the project period. Each newsletter will highlight a tool or service developed by SCAPE, present an interview with one of the project members, give an … Continue reading
New SCAPE public deliverables
Six new public Deliverables from the SCAPE project have been published on the SCAPE website: Guidelines for deploying preservation tools and environments, Characterisation technology: Release 1 & release report, Quality Assurance Workflow: Release 1 & Release Report, Web content executable workflows for experimental … Continue reading
SCAPE Newsletter
Do you want to get quarterly updates on SCAPE news and project development? Just subscribe to our newsletter! The SCAPE Newsletter will include topics like Tool highlights Publication highligts Interviews with SCAPE developers and other members SCAPE at upcoming conferences … 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
SCAPE publication highlights April 2012
Have a look at some SCAPE publication highlights listed below: Latest publications SCAPE: Big Data Meets Digital Preservation in ERCIM News 89 FactCrawl: A Fact Retrieval Framework for Full-Text Indices in WebDB 2011 Other Open Access publications Control Objectives for … Continue reading
