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Europeana Newspapers
Introduction
A group of 18 European partner institutions have joined forces in the “Europeana Newspapers” project and will, over a period of 3 years, provide more than 18 million newspaper pages to the EUROPEANA service.
The Europeana Newspapers Project (funded under EC’s CIP 2007 – 2013) started in February 2012 and aims at the aggregation and refinement of newspapers through The European Library. The digitised historical newspaper content made available via the Europeana Newspapers Project is all public domain and primarily focused on the period of WWI. In addition, the project addresses challenges particularly linked with digitised newspapers:
- use of refinement methods for OCR, OLR/article segmentation, and named entity recognition (NER), and page class recognition to enhance search and presentation functionalities for Europeana customers,
- quality evaluation for automatic refinement technologies,
- transformation of local metadata to the Europeana Data Model (EDM)
- metadata standardization in close collaboration with stakeholders from the public and private sector.
Related Publications
Making Europe’s Historical Newspapers Searchable
Proceedings of the 12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS2016), Santorini, Greece, April 11-14, 2016.
Quality Prediction System for Large-Scale Digitisation Workflows
Proceedings of the 12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS2016), Santorini, Greece, April 11-14, 2016
The ENP Image and Ground Truth Dataset of Historical Newspapers
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2015), Nancy, France, August 2015, pp. 931-935
ICDAR2015 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts – RDCL2015
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2015), Nancy, France, August 2015, pp. 1151-1155
Europeana Newspapers OCR Workflow Evaluation
Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP2015), Nancy, France, August 2015, pp. 39-46
Document Representation Refinement for Precise Region Description
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (DATeCH2014), Madrid, Spain, May 2014, pp. 9-13
Efficient OCR Training Data Generation with Aletheia
Short Paper Booklet of the 11th International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS2014), Tours, France, April 2014, pp. 19-20
The Significance of Reading Order in Document Recognition and its Evaluation
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2013), Washington DC, USA, August 2013, pp. 688-692
ICDAR2013 Competition on Historical Newspaper Layout Analysis – HNLA2013
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2013), Washington DC, USA, August 2013, pp. 1486-1490