Text Mining for Historical Documents: Links

• Cultural Heritage Portals
• Demos
• Digital Cultural Heritage Projects
  • Digitisation Projects
  • Searching, Accessing, Mining Cultural Heritage Data
  • Standardisation, Semantic Web
  • Personalisation
• Workshops and Conferences

Cultural Heritage Portals

• Europeana
  (European Cultural Heritage portal)
• Net Heritage (EU)
• European Digital Library
• Culture Sampo
  (Finnish Cultural Heritage portal)
• Western Australian Cultural Heritage Portal
• Croatian Cultural Heritage
• Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

Demos

• Chip Demo (Art recommendation system developed in cooperation with the Rijksmuseum)
• mbase (search in natural history fieldbooks and data bases)
• Yahmuugle (music retrieval)
• MultiMatch Project Demo (image and video retrieval)

Digital Cultural Heritage Projects

• Digitisation / Archiving Projects
  • kulturerbe digital
    (information about digitisation of cultural heritage data in Germany)
  • kopal
    (long-term digital archiving)
  • IMPACT: Improving Access to Text
    (EU funded, large-scale digitization project)
    
  • ERPANET: Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network
    (European project for best practice for the digital preservation of cultural heritage)
  • DELOS (Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries)
• Searching, Accessing, Mining Cultural Heritage Data
  • MALACH: Multilingual Access to Large Spoken Archives
    (information retrieval for Holocaust survivor testimonies collected by the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation)
    
  • MultiMatch: Multilingual/Multimedia Access To Cultural Heritage
    (large EU-funded project)
  • CHOICE: Charting the Information Landscape Employing Context Information
    (inferring meta-data for audio-visual content)
  • CHORAL: Access to Oral History
    (speech retrieval)
  • MITCH: Mining for Information in Texts from the Cultural Heritage
    (text mining, Dutch National Museum of Natural History)
  • MUnCH: MultimediaNalysis for Cultural Heritage
    (access to multi-media data)
  • MuSEUM: Multiple-collection Searching Using Metadata
    (information retrieval)
  • RICH: Reading Images in the Cultural Heritage
    (automatic classification of cultural heritage objects)
  • SCRATCH: Script Analysis Tools for the Cultural Heritage
    (searching in hand-written documents)
  • WITCHCRAFT: What is topical in Cultural Heritage: content-based Retrieval Among Folksong tunes
    (music retrieval)
  • DigiCULT: Technology Challenges for Digital Culture
  • CHLT: Cultural Heritage Language Technologies
• Standardisation, Semantic Web
  • STITCH: Semantic Interoperability to Access Cultural Heritage
    (semantic web, standardised vocabulary, meta-data)
  • The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
• Personalisation
  • CHIP: Cultural Heritage Information Presentation
    (personalisation, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
    
  • PEACH: Personal Experience with Active Cultural Heritage

Workshops and Conferences

• LaTeCH: Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data
  • LaTeCH 2010 (ECAI, Lisbon)
  • LaTeCH-SHELT&R 2009 (EACL, Athens)
  • LaTeCH 2008 (LREC, Marrakech)
  • LaTeCH 2007 (ACL, Prag)
• First European Workshop on Intelligent Technologies for Cultural Heritage Exploitation 2006
• First International Workshop on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web 2007
• European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology on Digital Libraries (ECDL)
• International Conference on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage, Salzburg, 2006