Special Event at The University of Texas at Austin:

Visit the Digitization Center at the Perry-Castañeda Library at The University of Texas at Austin for a special docWORKS demonstration

Wednesday April 12th, 2006 from 2pm to 4pm

The University of Texas at Austin Libraries, in cooperation with CCS (Germany), invite you to visit the Digitization Center at the Perry-Castañeda Library and get a closer look into its text conversion workflow.

The library is a short, free bus ride from the conference hotel and the event will take place after the forum ends on Wednesday afternoon.

At the center, UT is digitizing 60,000 pages of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly (1897- 2005). This in-house digitization project includes the conversion of image files into XML and HTML including full text OCR correction and sophisticated footnote linking.

The first phase of the project is now completed, and the first 50 volumes (1897 – 1947) are available on the web. The outcome provides excellent access and research opportunities for people throughout the world. Please see an example at: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v031/n1/article_6.html

CCS representatives, with the help of Digitization Center staff, will demonstrate the conversion workflow using the CCS conversion software docWORKS and talk about the challenges of high-level mark up structure, footnote linking and OCR correction. As the developers of docWORKS technology, the CCS representatives will be available for questions. CCS is also managing the registration for this event.

If you are interested in attending please contact Swenja Clausen by email at: [log in to unmask]
Thank you for your time and we hope to see you there.