Harvard University Library does separate OPS and DEV.
Only OPS have write permissions on production boxes, and we have a change
control procedure that is implemented through a series of scripts.
In addition to Development and QA instances of applications, we have
implemented a Staging server
The Office for Scholarly Communication of the Harvard University Library
(http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/osc.php) has a job opening for a Digital
Library Software Engineer to work primarily on DSpace development of our
DASH open access repository (http://dash.harvard.edu/). The DASH repository
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
Printed test sheets:
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At 04:54 PM 5/2/2009 -0700, st...@archive.org wrote:
My understanding is that a flatbed or sheetfed document scanner that
produces 300 dpi will produce much better OCR results than a cheap digital
camera that produces 300 dpi. The reasons have to do with the resolution
and distortion of the resulting image, where resolution is defined as the
Abbyy Finereader and Nuance Omnipage are the two leading commercial OCR
products. Both can achieve 98% + character accuracy on most book-like
material scanned at 300 dpi.
- Randy Stern (who formerly worked in the OCR industry)
At 07:37 AM 2/3/2009 -0500, Nicole Engard wrote:
I'm
As you may know, Harvard's faculty in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has
recently voted to provide open access to scholarly articles created by
faculty. This job posting is in support of that goal. If interested, please
contact Randy Stern.
Digital Library Software Engineer
Harvard University
Edward,
Here are a few things we do at Harvard:
1. Viewing of course reserves reading lists in on-line course systems by
faculty and students:
See http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/readinglist/index.html
2. Providing a (currently non-public) OAI data provider for ARTstor to
harvest metadata
I apologize if this has already been posted:
The Harvard University Library is seeking a highly competent and
experienced software developer to play a leadership design and development
role in a team creating digital library systems, tools, and delivery
services, as well as the next generation
