CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Open Source Indexing

Historic documents often contain handwriting, old fonts, or other text formats that OCR software can’t handle. We need humans–from volunteers to paid staff–to read the document images and transcribe what they see into databases which can be searched, analyzed, crawled, and used by researchers. Until now those efforts have required organizations either to outsource indexing […]

News, Resources

Resource: Tabula takes data from PDF to CSV

 Tabula lets you upload a (text-based) PDF file into a simple web interface and magically pull tabular data into CSV format. Tabula is free and available under the MIT open-source license. Introducing Tabula – Features – Source: An OpenNews project.

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoc, Ming Qing Women’s Writing Digital Archive and Database, McGill

The Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University, announces a postdoctoral fellowship with support from the Henry Luce Foundation to begin Aug. 1, 2013, renewable for two subsequent years. The fellow will assist the Director of the Ming Qing Women’s Writings Digital Archive and Database (http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing), Prof. Grace S. Fong, in executing, managing, and developing […]