Germany-based company CCS Content Conversion Specialists GmbH is
offering a hands-on workshop introducing their product docWORKS, a
content-conversion software solution. This workshop will benefit
professionals interested in an integrated in-house solution for
content-conversion projects focused on books and journals. CCS staff
will coach participants through the content conversion process from
image preprocessing, OCR, XML markup to METS/ALTO XML export, and are
encouraged to bring a sample publication to the workshop to work with. 

Attendees will work with the software and leave the workshop with
METS/ALTO XML data plus structured PDF files with hidden text of the
submitted sample material, e.g., TIFF images of a book or journal, up to
but not exceeding 400 pages. This interactive workshop is a great
opportunity for those looking for content-conversion solutions and those
who have already implemented docWORKS and are seeking additional
training. To register for this event, contact Barrie Howard,
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Daniel Lanz from CCS will be conducting the workshop. He is the docWORKS
project manager, and has worked withMore information regarding CCS is
available from http://www.ccs-gmbh.de. If you have specific questions
regarding the workshop, please contact Daniel by e-mail,
[log in to unmask], or telephone, +49 (0) 40 227 130-18. CCS is
engaged in the NDNP project and plans to offer docWORKS for NDNP
compliant content conversion of newspapers, see http://www.loc.gov/ndnp.


The agenda for this workshop is as follows:

Sunday, November 6, 2004, Computer Classroom, Alderman Library, the
University of Virginia

01:30 p.m.--03:00 p.m. General introduction, presentation with overview,
use cases, introduction to the application, etc.
03:00 p.m.--03:30 p.m. Coffee break
03:30 p.m.--05:30 p.m. Interactive training module simultaneously with
breakout sessions for individualized consultation

Best regards,

Barrie L. Howard
Program Associate
Digital Library Federation
1755 Mass. Ave., NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036-2124
http://www.diglib.org
V: (202) 939-4769
F: (202) 939-4765