Interesting to see UNESCO plastered all over the L'Oreal HQ in Hammersmith - advertising the Women in Science Award that they sponsor.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
BBC NEWS | Technology | Spam weapon helps preserve books
BBC NEWS | Technology | Spam weapon helps preserve books
Fascinating article explaining how the Internet Archive Million Book project is using the words that can't be recognised by OCR as the spam-beating words that you have to type correctly to log into systems.
Almost as good as the National Library of Vienna, which digitised the card catalogue to its print collection, and got only a couple of key index fields typed in. Now, when you order a photo (and pay to digitise it on demand) you also complete their catalogue record for them. Talk about 'user-generated content'!
Fascinating article explaining how the Internet Archive Million Book project is using the words that can't be recognised by OCR as the spam-beating words that you have to type correctly to log into systems.
Almost as good as the National Library of Vienna, which digitised the card catalogue to its print collection, and got only a couple of key index fields typed in. Now, when you order a photo (and pay to digitise it on demand) you also complete their catalogue record for them. Talk about 'user-generated content'!
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