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Nov. 11: Saavy Researcher Workshop—ABBYY Finereader: An Introduction to OCR

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All are welcome to attend the Savvy Researcher Workshop on ABBYY Finereader on Wednesday, November 11th in the Main Library. Register for the event on the Savvy Researcher Workshops website prior to attendance here.

What
ABBYY Finereader: An Introduction to OCR

Speaker
Victoria Henry

When
November 11th, 1-1:50pm

Where
314 Main Library

Description
ABBYY FineReader is an Optical Character Recognition Software (OCR) that is able to scan and convert images and scanned documents into editable, searchable formats. OCR helps your computer to recognize letter shapes in a scanned document and turn them into text you can copy and edit as needed. This allows researchers to extract information from documents quickly and easily. OCR also enables these texts to be used in key data and text mining projects. This workshop will give attendees a basic understanding of how they could use optical character recognition software in their research as well as give them a chance for some hands-on experience using ABBYY FineReader in the Scholarly Commons.

Nov 11: Savvy Researcher Workshop — Principles of Text Encoding in the Humanities using TEI

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All are welcome to attend the Savvy Researcher Workshop on the principles of text encoding using TEI on Wednesday, November 11th in the Main Library. Register for the event on the Savvy Researcher Workshops website prior to attendance here.

What
Principles of Text Encoding in the Humanities using TEI

Speaker
Eleanor Dickson

When
November 11th, 3-3:50pm

Where
314 Main Library

Description
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is the humanities-centric XML standard for encoding digital text. Participants will learn the principles of text encoding with the TEI Guidelines, and receive an introduction on how to start creating transcriptions for digital humanities projects focused on scholarly editions and textual analysis. All experience levels welcome, though beginners should consider attending the introductory XML workshop to prepare.

Nov 3: Savvy Researcher Workshop—Introduction to the HathiTrust Research Center Portal for Text Mining Research

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All are welcome to attend the Savvy Researcher Workshop on the HathiTrust Research Center and its uses in text mining on Tuesday, November 3rd in the Main Library. Register for the event on the Savvy Researcher Workshops website prior to attendance here.

What
Introduction to the HathiTrust Research Center Portal for Text Mining Research

Speaker
Eleanor Dickson

When
November 3rd, 11-11:50

Where
314 Main Library

Description
Students and researchers today have access to massive amounts of digitized text from the world’s research libraries.  Access to this growing digital record of human knowledge provides researchers with an unprecedented opportunity, but working with such material requires new tools to effectively analyze digitized text at so large a scale. This workshop will introduce cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure that are being developed at the Hathi Trust Research Center (HTRC)* to meet these needs in the context of the digitized text collection of the Hathi Trust Digital Library, currently comprising more than 11 million digitized volumes.