Culture Knowledge Base
The NFDI4Culture Knowledge Base contains guidelines, reports, and specifications by the task areas of the consortium covering all aspects of research data management in the domain of material and immaterial cultural heritage. Additionally, we provide you with curated link recommendations to high quality open educational resources.
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Digitizing, Inventorizing, Enriching 4 Items
27.10.2023
Ground Truth Guidelines für OCR-D (Optical Character Recognition Development)
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Language(s):
English
German
The Ground Truth Guidelines have grown out of the DFG-funded initiative for Optical Character Recognition Development. They address the creation of ground truth, i. e. reference data for the development and evaluation of OCR systems.
21.08.2023
Newspaper Digitization Master Plan - Recommendations for the Digitization of Historical Newspapers in Germany
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Language(s):
German
The "Masterplan Zeitungsdigitalisierung" summarizes the experiences and results of the DFG project "Digitalisierung historischer Zeitungen" and includes a summary of the most important recommendations.
21.08.2023
OCR – Best-practice-guide
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Language(s):
English
The European Impact Centre of Competence in Digitisation has published this best practice guide to OCR. The guide provides an introduction to OCR and is more technical in nature, a bit older, but thorough.
21.04.2023
A Research Agenda for Historical and Multilingual Optical Character Recognition
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Language(s):
English
The 2018 publication contains inspiration for advancing the field of OCR for scientific research, handling historical texts as well as manuscripts, and key recommendations on OCR.