Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing Code4Lib North
William Denton wrote: Wendy Huot and I have made a page and a post on the Code4Lib site about a new local chapter: Code4Lib North, for people in Ontario, Quebec, and the nearby parts of the United States. http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/North Anyone who's interested should please put their name down. I have added my name to the list. Although I am from the US I'm only about 3.5 hours away. -- John Fereira Cornell University Twitter: @john_fereira Google Wave: fere...@googlewave.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing Code4Lib North
I'm in. K. : Kimberly Silk, MLS Data Librarian, The Martin Prosperity Institute Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto Office: 416-673-8586 Mobile: 416-721-8955 Email: kimberly.s...@martinprosperity.org Web: www.martinprosperity.org Find Out What Really Tanks our Thinking: blog.martinprosperity.org -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of John Fereira Sent: January 13, 2010 8:19 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing Code4Lib North William Denton wrote: Wendy Huot and I have made a page and a post on the Code4Lib site about a new local chapter: Code4Lib North, for people in Ontario, Quebec, and the nearby parts of the United States. http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/North Anyone who's interested should please put their name down. I have added my name to the list. Although I am from the US I'm only about 3.5 hours away. -- John Fereira Cornell University Twitter: @john_fereira Google Wave: fere...@googlewave.com
[CODE4LIB] Job Opening: Library Development Coordinator Waterford, WI
Library Development Coordinator (Full-Time Position) Due to a retirement, the Lakeshores Library System (LLS) is seeking an innovative, dynamic, and personable individual to fill the position of Library Development Coordinator. The Library Development Coordinator is responsible for implementing program objectives in the areas of technology, cataloging, continuing education, and other areas of consulting needed by the member libraries of the System. Successful candidates will possess an ALA Accredited Masters Degree in Library and Information Science, strong technical services background, and an interest/aptitude for library related technology. LLS is headquartered in Waterford, Wisconsin and offers consulting and support to 15 libraries in Racine and Walworth County. Please submit application by February 5, 2010. This position offers excellent benefits. Salary range is from $42,000 – 52,000 per year, depending on qualifications and experience. Benefits include participation in the state retirement system, health insurance, paid vacation, personal days, sick time, and more. For a complete job description, visit: www.lakeshores.lib.wi.us. Submit resume, cover letter, and references via email to Kristen Hewitt, Administrator, at khew...@lakeshores.lib.wi.us. LLS is an EEO Employer.
[CODE4LIB] OCR for handwritten pages
Hello, Colleagues, Does anyone know/use any OCR software working on handwritten pages? or at least think it is better than hiring a student key-in. I know these OCR software such as ABBYY, but they do not work on handwriting. Thanks, Yan
Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR for handwritten pages
There was some work done in the UMass CS Dept[1] a long time ago. I'm not aware of any end-user software available, though some proprietary systems like Evernote[2] have pretty advanced text in image recognition capabilities. The high accuracy necessary for recognizing the text of entire documents is probably a very serious hurdle for technology like this. [1] http://orange.cs.umass.edu/irdemo/hw-demo/ [2] http://www.evernote.com/ Best, Aaron On 1/13/2010 3:50 PM, Han, Yan wrote: Hello, Colleagues, Does anyone know/use any OCR software working on handwritten pages? or at least think it is better than hiring a student key-in. I know these OCR software such as ABBYY, but they do not work on handwriting. Thanks, Yan -- Aaron Rubinstein Digital Project Manager W.E.B. Du Bois - Verizon Digitization Project Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts, Amherst Tel: (413)545-9637 Email: arubi...@library.umass.edu Web: http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/
Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR for handwritten pages
Perhaps this isn't substantially different from student key-in, but handwriting recognition may be a good task to outsource to Mechanical Turk: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome Good luck, -Mike On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 15:50, Han, Yan h...@u.library.arizona.edu wrote: Hello, Colleagues, Does anyone know/use any OCR software working on handwritten pages? or at least think it is better than hiring a student key-in. I know these OCR software such as ABBYY, but they do not work on handwriting. Thanks, Yan
Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR for handwritten pages
Parascript (http://www.parascript.com/) has handwriting recognition software, but it only works reliably for things like forms, checks, and addresses where there is a lot of dictionary-like context to verify the image recognition. Generalized free text hand writing recognition is un unsolved problem At 01:50 PM 1/13/2010 -0700, Han, Yan wrote: Hello, Colleagues, Does anyone know/use any OCR software working on handwritten pages? or at least think it is better than hiring a student key-in. I know these OCR software such as ABBYY, but they do not work on handwriting. Thanks, Yan
Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR for handwritten pages
I'm not sure if you could use reCAPTCHA or not. If you have a large enough user base for some other application and reCAPTCHA will let you specify the source document, it could be an option. http://recaptcha.net/ On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Han, Yan h...@u.library.arizona.eduwrote: Hello, Colleagues, Does anyone know/use any OCR software working on handwritten pages? or at least think it is better than hiring a student key-in. I know these OCR software such as ABBYY, but they do not work on handwriting. Thanks, Yan --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org
Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR for handwritten pages
Han, Yan wrote: Hello, Colleagues, Does anyone know/use any OCR software working on handwritten pages? or at least think it is better than hiring a student key-in. I know these OCR software such as ABBYY, but they do not work on handwriting. Most 'handwriting recognition' systems are highly dependent on the script being used. Block capitals are relatively easy; idiosyncratic flowing, cursive script very hard. Interactive systems effectively train their users to write in styles legible to the system, which is not something that can be done with existing corpora. There are a number of commercial parties who do manual re-keying of handwritten pages in locations where labour is cheap, and these are likely to be your cheapest option for non-trivial volumes of text. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository
[CODE4LIB] commercial support for oss
I have begun to create a list of commercial support vendors for library-related open source software, and it is temporarily located here: http://infomotions.com/tmp/support.html I know the list is not exhaustive, and I know the list can be improved in many ways. I will be doing that work shortly. (Thank heavens for relational databases and XSLT!) In the meantime, is your favorite vendor missing from the list? Can you recommend others? The only limitation is that the vendor needs to be supporting library-related software which is broadly defined, yet I do not necessarily want vendors who support things like Drupal, MySQL, Apache, etc. I'm looking for the more library-centric applications. The other applications have a very broad appeal. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Eric Lease Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] commercial support for oss
On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: http://infomotions.com/tmp/support.html Ah, shot! Don't you hate when you do that! Instead, try: http://infomotions.com/tmp/oss/support.html -- Earache Least Moron
