News, Resources

Resource: Doing OCR Using Command Line Tools in Linux

In previous posts, we looked at a variety of Linux command line techniques for analyzing text and finding patterns in it, including word frequencies, permuted term indexes, regular expressions, simple search engines and named entity recognition. In this post we focus on a preliminary issue: converting images of texts into text files that we can […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Lecturer in Digital Anthropology and Material Culture, UCL

The successful candidate will be a promising researcher able to carry out teaching and administration in Digital Anthropology and some other area within Material Culture studies which could include consumption, media, museums, art and visual culture, materials or a particular genre of material and visual culture. UCL Search Engine: Lecturer in Digital Anthropology and Material […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Call for Papers on Digital Curation

Digital curation involves the selection, maintenance, dissemination, 
preservation and adding value to digital assets. Examples of these 
activities include the development of repositories for digital 
resources, the creation and/or selection of digital assets; creation
and management of metadata; file format identification and management,
 and provision for dissemination and access to digital assets. Digital
 curation is a […]