Mi, 07.11.2018 14:00

Vienna Scanathon 2018

7 November 2018 – Digitizing historical documents? There's an app for that!

CC-BY 4.0, Sandra Lehecka

The READ project’s exciting new device known as the ScanTent, along with the corresponding DocScan mobile app, allows users to take high quality images of historical documents with their own mobile phones. During Vienna's first Scanathon,hosted by the ACDH, prospective users get a unique opportunity to get to know and try out the brand-new prototypes.

Developed by researchers at Computer Vision Lab of TU Vienna, the ScanTent and DocScan are designed to facilitate fast, simple and mobile on demand digitization for archival work and other digitization tasks. The Scanathon is organized in cooperation between the ACDH and the READ project as part of the 2018 Transkribus User Conference and is open to the public.

Users are invited to bring their own documents and material for digitization during the hands-on part.

Please note that the registration for the Vienna Scanathon 2018 is now closed, as all available places have been filled.


Programme

14.00

 

Words of Welcome

  

Claudia Resch, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities

14.05               

Words of Welcome from the coordinator of READ

  

Günter Mühlberger, University of Innsbruck

14.15 

Introducing the ACDH-ÖAW Digitization Centre

  

Daniel Schopper, ACDH

14.25 

Introducing the ScanTent and the DocScan App

  

Maria Kallio, National Archives of Finland
Louise Seaward, University College of London

14.45 

Scanning Session

  

Practice digitizing documents with DocScan and the ScanTent

16.00 

Coffee Break

  

 

16.30 

Feedback Session

  

Give us your feedback on DocScan and the ScanTent

17.00 

Close

  

 

 

 

 

 

Informationen

 

Date

7 November 2018 - 2 pm to 5 pm


Place

Austrian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
Sitzungssaal, 1st floor
1010 Vienna


Contact

Daniela Fasching
Claudia Resch


Links

READ Website

ScanTent Website

Transkribus User Conference


Twitter Hashtag

#ACDHscanathon