Registration form - OCR Webinar 5 March 2013 at 12 CET
Time: 5 March 2014, 13-15 (EET); 12-14 (CET); 15-17 (MSK)
Place: Teollisuuskatu 23, Room A414, 4th Floor
Target group: The webinar aims to foster interdisciplinary work and linking together participant engaged in
* Text digitization and OCR
* Digital Humanities
* Digital Libraries
* Crowdsourcing
* Computing linguistics
* Speakers and researchers of minority languages
Programme: The webinar focuses on the topics related to editing the OCR. The following speakers will take the floor:
* Jussi-Pekka Hakkarainen (National Library of Finland): An introduction to the OCR Webinar
* Wouter van Hemel & Anis Moubarik (National Library of Finland): What the OCR editor does and how it works
* Jack Rueter (University of Helsinki): The Language Access and Open Choice
* Minna Vanhasalo (University of Tampere): The Kotus Experience: Crowdsourcing the Old Literary Finnish for the research's benefit
The addresses will be followed by a crowdsourcing session in which the attendees may use the editor and frame questions regarding the OCR editor and editing with it.
Remote access to the Webinar (via Adobe Connect):
https://connectpro.helsinki.fi/kk_finna/
Additional information and background material:
About the OCR editor in our Project Blog: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/fennougrica/2014/02/21/ocr-text-editor/
Fenno-Ugrica Collection: http://fennougrica.kansalliskirjasto.fi/
Login Page for the OCR Editor: http://ocrui-kk.lib.helsinki.fi/
Contact address: kk-fennougrica@helsinki.fi
Enrolling latest by the 3 MARCH 2014 at 12 CET.
The webinar will be conducted in English.
Invitation as PDF here.
Compulsory fields are marked in red.
