Agenda

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

19.00

16.00 – 16.30Meet & greet

9.00 – 9.15	Welcome – UB & LIBER
9.15 – 9.45	Introduction to the Europeana Newspapers Project (Gunter Muhlberger – UIBK)
9.45 – 10.15	Introduction to Refinement: Technologies, Requirements, Workflows, Datasets (Clemens Neudecker – KB)
10.15 – 10.45	Coffee break
10.45 – 12.00	Presentations (Stefan Pletschacher & Christian Clausner – USAL)
	• General evaluation approaches and specific challenges for newspapers
	• The role of ground truth
	• Evaluation of individual processing steps and end-to-end systems
	• Interpretation of evaluation results and how to utilise the findings for optimising digitisation workflows
12.00 – 13.00	Lunch
13.00 – 14.15	Demonstrations (Stefan Pletschacher & Christian Clausner- USAL):
	• Aletheia – a semi-automated ground truth production tool
	• Layout evaluation (segmentation, classification, reading order)
	• OCR/text evaluation
14.15- 14.45	Coffee break
14.45 – 15.30	Break-out session (Stefan Pletschacher & Christian Clausner – USAL):
	• Use scenarios
	• Technical features
	• Metrics
	• Evaluation tools
	• Specification of requirements
	• Implementation of new features
15.30 – 16.00	Reporting back & wrapping up (Stefan Pletschacher & Christian Clausner – USAL)
17.00 – 18.00	Visit & presentation in Tesla Museum
19:30	Dinner at “Dva jelena” (Two deer) restaurant. Everyone is invited, expenses are covered, more info here.

09.30 – 10.00	Introduction to NER (Clemens Neudecker -KB)
10.00 – 10.30	OLR at CCS: From unstructured to structured newspaper data and the role of content providers in the overall process (Claus Gravenhorst – CCS)
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break
11.00 – 12.00	Hands-on session: NER tagging – tools, practical issues and best practices (Clemens Neudecker & Lotte Wilms-KB)
12.00 – 12.45	Hands-on session: (Claus Gravenhorst – CCS):
	• OLR – docWorks demo
	• Tagging and correction of layout and structural elements
12.45 – 13.15	Conclusions and wrapping up
13.15 – 14.30	Lunch
15.00 – 19.00	Walking tour – City center
20.00	Dinner at Lorenzo and Kakalamba