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KB National Library of the Netherlands posts on eMOP

Submitted by heil on Fri, 03/22/2013 - 16:43

KB National Library of the Netherlands has recently given the Early Modern OCR Project some publicity on the other side of the Atlantic. Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) coordinates one of our international partner projects, IMPACT: Improving Access to Text.

eMOP Featured in Library Journal

Submitted by heil on Thu, 12/06/2012 - 09:08


Matt Enis, Associate Editor of Technology for the Library Journal, asks "OCR [optical character recognition] works great for paperbacks—but what about 15th Century texts set by hand?"

ProQuest Joins Forces with TAMU Scholars to Make 15th Century Books Behave Like Born-Digital Text

Submitted by heil on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 18:07


ANN ARBOR, Mich., November 6, 2012 - Information powerhouse ProQuest is participating in a project that will vastly accelerate research of 15th through 17th Century cultural history. The company will provide access to page images from the veritable Early English Books Online and newcomer Early European Books to the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP) at Texas A&M. EMOP will use the content to create a database of typefaces used in the early modern era, train OCR software to read them and then apply crowd-sourcing for editing. The project will turn the rich corpus of works from this pivotal historical period into fully searchable digital documents.

eMOP Receives Funding from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Submitted by egrumbac on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 17:29

English Professor Laura Mandell, Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC), along with two co-PIs Professor Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna and Professor Richard Furuta, are very pleased to announce that Texas A&M has received a 2-year, $734,000 development grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP, http://emop.tamu.edu ).  The two other project leaders, Anton DuPlessis and Todd Samuelson, are book historians from Cushing Rare Books Library.