From Impact Archive

  • Closing the IMPACT Project blog

    Closing the IMPACT Project blog

    Posted on 3 January 2012 by Marieke Guy | From Impact
    The IMPACT project has now officially finished and been superseded by the Centre of Competence. This blog has now been frozen. Comments have been disabled and we do not intend to publish further posts. We have published the following statistics for future reference. They are intended to inform others about the lifecycle of the blog […]

    Full Story

  • BSB/ÖNB Demo Day – Videos online!

    BSB/ÖNB Demo Day – Videos online!

    Posted on 21 November 2011 by The IMPACT project | From Impact
    Es hat dann doch etwas länger gedauert, aber jetzt sind alle Vorträge unserer Doppel-Veranstaltung “Historische Dokumente auf dem Weg zum digitalen Volltext” (11. – 12. Oktober 2011) und in die entsprechenden Blog-Artikel eingebunden. Wie gehabt finden sich alle Informationen zum ersten Tag, dem “IMPACT Demo Day”, hier auf dem IMPACT-Blog, während Sie sich alles Wissenswerte […]

    Full Story

  • IMPACT/myGrid Hackathon – Taverna Roadmap

    IMPACT/myGrid Hackathon – Taverna Roadmap

    Posted on 14 November 2011 by The IMPACT project | From Impact
    In the afternoon, after everyone had worked through the 3 group tasks in the practical session: ‘Workflow Development in Digitisation’, we returned to hear from the Taverna Manager – Shoaib Sufi. Shoib gave an interesting talk about where he sees Taverna going in the next few years and the further development of Taverna 3, including […]

    Full Story

  • IMPACT/myGrid Taverna Hackathon – Taverna Server as a Portal

    IMPACT/myGrid Taverna Hackathon – Taverna Server as a Portal

    Posted on 14 November 2011 by The IMPACT project | From Impact
    Clemens Neudecker leads a session on using Taverna Server as a portal, using IMPACT workflows to demonstrate the functionality. This was followed by Rob Haines from myGrid who gave more examples of Taverna Server Interfaces.

    Full Story

  • The IMPACT Framework – From Tools to Workflows

    The IMPACT Framework – From Tools to Workflows

    Posted on 14 November 2011 by impacteib | From Impact
    This practical session started with the attendees introducing themselves and splitting up into 3 groups, so that each could work on a different set of tasks based on a Case Study: Case Study: A collection holder wants to reduce storage costs for his collections that are currently available as TIFF master files. She/he heard that […]

    Full Story

  • IMPACT/myGrid Taverna Hackathon

    IMPACT/myGrid Taverna Hackathon

    Posted on 14 November 2011 by impacteib | From Impact
    Full details of this workshop are available through the workshop wiki at: http://impact-mygrid-taverna-hackathon.wikispaces.com/Background+Materials The day started with an introduction to IMPACT from Clemens Neudecker: and then an introduction to Taverna from Katy Wolstencroft:

    Full Story

  • IMPACT Final Conference – Blog-index

    IMPACT Final Conference – Blog-index

    Posted on 26 October 2011 by impacteib | From Impact
    The whole conference was blogged and photographed with presentations uploaded to Slideshare and videos to Vimeo. These are also embedded within the blogs on this site. This post contains direct links to all posts made at the Final Conference.  Please do feel free to add comments or thoughts below the posts. Monday 24 October 2011 […]

    Full Story

  • IMPACT Final Conference – Research Parallel Sessions Brief Summary

    IMPACT Final Conference – Research Parallel Sessions Brief Summary

    Posted on 25 October 2011 by Nora Daly | From Impact
    Parallel Session 1: Research was dedicated to presentations and discussions around the state of the art research tools for document analysis developed via the IMPACT Project. As you might guess from the slides below, the information packed into these presentations could fill a whole new two-day conference!  But for now, a brief summary will have to suffice and […]

    Full Story

  • IMPACT Final Conference – Language Parallel Session

    IMPACT Final Conference – Language Parallel Session

    Posted on 25 October 2011 by Marieke Guy | From Impact
    The language parallel session consisted of a series of presentations and demonstrations of the IMPACT language tools and hosted by Katrien Depuydt (INL). Named Entity Work in IMPACT: Frank Landsbergen Frank began by defining named entities (NE). They are a word or string referring to a proper location, person or organisation (or date, time, etc). […]

    Full Story

  • IMPACT Final Conference – Digitisation Tips Parallel Session

    IMPACT Final Conference – Digitisation Tips Parallel Session

    Posted on 25 October 2011 by Greta | From Impact
    Aly Conteh (BL) hosted the parallel Q&A session on Digitisation tips. Pannel members included Astrid Verheusen (Manager of the Digital Library Programme and Head of the Innovative Projects Department, KB National Library of the Netherlands), Geneviève Cron (OCR expert, Bibliothèque nationale de France), Christa Müller (Director Digital Services Department, Austrian National Library), Majlis Bremer-Laamanen (Director […]

    Full Story