CFP DATeCH international conference – Madrid

DATeCH (Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage) brings together researchers and practitioners looking for innovative approaches for the creation, transformation and exploitation of historical documents in digital form. – See more here

For additional information, please visit www.datech2014.info or send an email to datech@digitisation.eu

Target audience

The workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary work and linking together participants engaged in the following areas:

• Text digitization and OCR.
• Digital humanities.
• Image and document analysis.
• Digital libraries and library science.
• Applied computational linguistics.
• Crowdsourcing.
• Interfaces and human-computer interaction.

Topics

Topics of interest are all those related to the practical and scientific goals listed above, such as:

• OCR technology and tools for minority and historical languages.
• Methods and tools for post-correction of OCR results.
• Automated quality control for mass OCR data.
• Innovative access methods for historical texts and corpora.
• Natural language processing of ancient languages (Latin, Greek).
• Visualization techniques and interfaces for search and research in digital humanities.
• Publication and retrieval on e-books and mobile devices.
• Crowdsourcing techniques for collecting and annotating data in digital humanities.
• Enrichment of and metadata production for historical texts and corpora.
• Data created with mobile devices.
• Data presentation and exploration on mobile devices.
• Ontological and linked data based contextualization of digitized and born digital scholarly data resources.