Buzz - Ocr

• Automating Harvest and Ingest of the Medical Heritage Library

  Christy Henshaw, Dave Thompson and João Baleia describe an automated process to harvest medical books and pamphlets from the Internet Archive into the Wellcome Library’s Digital Services environment.

• Digitisation and e-Delivery of Theses from ePrints Soton

  Julian Ball and Christine Fowler describe the partnership between the University of Southampton’s Library Digitisation Unit and its institutional repository for digitising and hosting theses.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 69

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 69.

• Launching a New Community-owned Content Service

  Caren Milloy describes some of the challenges overcome and lessons learned by JISC Collections during the development of JISC eCollections.

• Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia

  Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 68

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68.

• IMPACT Final Conference 2011

  Marieke Guy reports on the two-day conference looking at the results of the IMPACT Project in making digitisation and OCR better, faster and cheaper.

• From Passive to Active Preservation of Electronic Records

  Heather Briston and Karen Estlund provide a narrative of the process adopted by the University of Oregon in order to integrate electronic records management into its staff's workflow.

• Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia

  Rose Holley describes a major development in the Australian national digital information infrastructure.

• IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation

  Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009.

• Data Preservation and Long-term Analysis in High-Energy Physics

  Richard Mount reports on the First Workshop on Data Preservation and Long-Term Analysis in High-Energy Physics, held at DESY (Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron), Hamburg, Germany, on 26-28 January 2008.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content

  Rob Davies describes a Best Practice Network under the eContentPlus Programme to make available locally sourced digital content to the Europeana Service.

• ECDL 2007

  Mahendra Mahey, Emma Tonkin and Robert John Robertson report on the 2007 European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held in Budapest, Hungary, over 16-22 September, 2007.

• Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too...

  David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006.

• Recasting the Past: Digital Histories

  Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• WebWatch: How Accessible Are Australian University Web Sites?

  Dey Alexander reports on a recent study of the accessibility of Australian university Web sites.

• In Vision: The Internet As a Resource for Visually Impaired People

  Ann Chapman on the Internet as a resource for visually impaired people: a survey of accessible sites, resources, current research and software.

• Planet SOSIG: Asking Questions - The CASS Social Survey Question Bank

  Adam Guy writes about the Question Bank service.

• JSTOR

  Daniel Holden reports on his trip to the United States to visit colleagues at JSTOR, a not-for-profit organisation creating a digital archive collection of scholarly journals

• The ExamNet Project at De Montfort University

  David James Houghton introduces the ExamNet Project, which offers access to past De Montfort University examination papers in electronic form.

• Copyright Corner

  Charles Oppenheim answers your copyright queries.

• ACORN Implemented

  Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system.

• Elvira 4: May 1997, Milton Keynes

  Ian Bloor reports on the recently held Elvira (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research) event.

• Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, 1840-45

  Ross Coleman describes a project which will create a unique research infrastructure in Australian studies through the digital conversion of Australian serials and fiction of the seminal period 1840-45.

• SETIS: Electronic Texts at the University of Sydney Library

  Creagh Cole describes a project dedicated to providing in-house access to a large number of electronic texts on CD-ROM.

• ILEJ: Internet Library of Early Journals

  Hugh Wellesley-Smith turns back the clock with a description of the Internet Library for early journals digitisation project.

• Anoraks and cardigans (2): New Text Search Engines, Bath, April 1996

  Nigel Ford, who gave the summary address, gives us his impressions of the April 1996 Infonortics conference n Bath on text retrieval.

• ELVIRA

  Tessa Bruce from the ResIDe eLib project describes the recent high profile electronic libraries conference hosted by De Montfort University.