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REID2017 Organisers

Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (PRImA) Research Lab
School of Computing, Science & Engineering
The University of Salford
Greater Manchester
M5 4WT
United Kingdom

Digital Research Team
British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
United Kingdom

Contacts

PRImA

Apostolos Antonacopoulos

Christian Clausner

Stefan Pletschacher

British Library

Tom Derrick

Digital Curator within the Digital Scholarship team at The British Library. He is experienced in assessing OCR output for a variety of document types, most recently investigating open source and proprietary software for OCR of Bengali print, which has informed this challenge.

Nora McGregor

Digital Curator, Asian & African Collections at The British Library. Her particular area of interest is in enabling the innovative use of the Library’s digital collections in computationally driven humanities research. In 2014 she was Challenge Partner for Technology Strategy Board’s Digital Innovation Contest: Data, awarding £25K in funding for the winner in the digital sector to develop a prototype application for both stimulating and measuring the creative and economic uses of British Library digital public domain content.

E-mail

reid2017@primaresearch.org