AAO members may be interested in the announcement below, reposted from
the Canadian History mailing list, H-CANADA. The actions involved, and
the way in which the issues are framed, raise interesting questions both
for archivists and for those who use archives.
Bennett McCardle <[log in to unmask]>
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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From: Dr Paul S. Ell <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Colleague,
A new electronic discussion list has been established
under mailbase. The list, history-digitisation, is concerned
with the digitisation, whether as an image or a fully
machine-readable document, of historical material. Particular
emphasis will be placed on the application of Optical Character
Recognition technology to 'difficult' material.
Increasingly there are efforts to add content to the
World Wide Web. In the UK government the, through the New
Opportunities Fund, has recently announced a =A350,000,000
initiative to create digital resources. Much of this material
will be of a historical nature. This poses unique problems - the
material may be of poor quality and hence difficult to capture,
it may be rare and fragile. This list aims to bring together
experts in the field of digitising historical material
and academics who have projects in mind.
To join history-digitisation go to
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/history-digitisation/
or, alternatively, send an e-mail to
[log in to unmask]
with the following text in the BODY of the message
join history-digitisation <FIRSTNAME> <LASTNAME>
Please forward this message to any interested colleagues.
Best wishes,
Paul Ell
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Dr Paul S. Ell
Director
The Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis
School of Sociology and Social Policy
The Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast
BT7 1NN
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
WWW: www.qub.ac.uk/cdda/
Discussion list: www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/history-digitisation
Phone: +44 (0)28 90273408
FAX: +44 (0)28 90320668
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