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Strike Up the Score: Deriving Searchable and Playable Digital Formats from Sheet Music; Smart Objects and Open Archives; Building the Archives of the Future: Advanced in Preserving Electronic Records at the National Archives and Records Administration; From the Digitized to the Digital Library.
Choudhury, G. Sayeed; DiLauro, Tim; Droettboom, Michael; Fujinaga, Ichiro; MacMillan, Karl; Nelson, Michael L.; Maly, Kurt; Thibodeau, Kenneth; Thaller, Manfred – D-Lib Magazine, 2001
These articles describe the experiences of the Johns Hopkins University library in digitizing their collection of sheet music; motivation for buckets, Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), and initial experiences using them in digital library (DL) testbeds; requirements for archival institutions, the National…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, Character Recognition, Computer Software
The Heinz Electronic Library Interactive On-line System (HELIOS): An Update.
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Galloway, Edward A.; Michalek, Gabrielle V. – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1998
Describes a project at Carnegie Mellon University libraries to convert the congressional papers of the late Senator John Heinz to digital format and to create an online system to search and retrieve these papers. Highlights include scanning, optical character recognition, and a search engine utilizing natural language processing. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Character Recognition, Data Conversion, Electronic Libraries
Data Input for Publishers. State-of-the-Art Report.
Buckland, Lawrence F. – 1984
Intended to serve as a guide for selecting the most suitable automated method for preparing and sending papers for publication, this report briefly describes data entry and editing procedures available from one publisher (Inforonics) and provides an estimate of processing costs for each procedure. The procedures, arranged in order of increasing…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Cost Estimates, Guidelines, Keyboarding (Data Entry)
An Analysis of Methods for Preparing a Large Natural Language Data Base.
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Porch, Ann – 1971
Relative cost and effectiveness of techniques for preparing a computer compatible data base consisting of approximately one million words of natural language are outlined. Considered are dollar cost, ease of editing, and time consumption. Facility for insertion of identifying information within the text, and updating of a text by merging with…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing
The Heinz Electronic Library Interactive Online System (HELIOS): Building a Digital Archive Using Imaging, OCR, and Natural Language Processing Technologies.
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Galloway, Edward A.; Michalek, Gabrielle V. – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1995
Discusses the conversion project of the congressional papers of Senator John Heinz into digital format and the provision of electronic access to these papers by Carnegie Mellon University. Topics include collection background, project team structure, document processing, scanning, use of optical character recognition software, verification…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Character Recognition, Computer Interfaces
The Arabization of a Full-Text Database Interface.
Fayen, Emily Gallup; And Others – 1986
The 1981 design specifications for the Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network (ENSTINET) stipulated that major end-user facilities of the system should be bilingual in English and Arabic. Many characteristics of the Arabic alphabet and language impact computer applications, and there exists no universally accepted character…
Descriptors: Arabic, Character Recognition, Computer Software, Databases