"A centre of excellence in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information and cultural heritage communities."

UKOLN is based at the University of Bath.

UKOLN, University of Bath

24 September 2009

Programme

10:00	Registration/coffee
10:30	Welcome
10:45	Digitisation overview: past, present & future
11:15	Introduction to Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
11:45	Coffee
12:00	Enhancing images for optimal text recognition
12:30	Adding value to OCR results – some IMPACT tools
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Case studies British Library/JISC Newspaper project Using digitised text collections in research, learning and teaching
15:30	Coffee
15:45	Panel discussion: digitisation challenges, with an introduction to the developing Centre of Competence.
17:00	Finish