tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221332762024-03-23T20:52:49.652+01:00Optical Character Recognition of Rare Books and Special Collections with cheap digital camerasPoposki Dimitar
US Department of State Alumni
Junior Faculty Development Program
Macedonia
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Fax: +389 2 3223-811Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-71669169294601059712008-05-08T14:58:00.000+02:002008-05-08T14:59:29.613+02:00Karl Franzens University Graz, AustriaFrom 01.03-01.04.2008 I was awarded a Teacher CEEPUS scholarship for the Karl Franzens University of Graz. It was an excellent opportunity for me to present and talk about my researches and my expertise in the field of digitization. I had some 5 lectures at the University Library at the end of my stay as a CEEPUS scholarship: Mittwoch, 26. 03., 14:00 h - 17:30 h1. Optical Character RecognitionUnknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-69882331345164322312008-05-08T14:56:00.001+02:002008-05-08T14:58:25.810+02:00BOBCATSSS 2008 Symposium, Zadar, Croatia BOBCATSSS is an annual symposium organized by students at a number of universities in Europe. It takes place under the auspices of EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research) and deals with themes from library and information science. Every year it is organized, managed and filled with content by students from an Eastern and Western European university.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-29900180053887107532008-05-08T14:55:00.000+02:002008-05-08T14:56:24.958+02:00Strategy development for the digitization of special collections within the NUL in order to protect and provide access to the Macedonian written CH The Workshop was held at the National and University Library "St. Kliment Ohridski". I have accepted the invitation from the Director of NUBSK to participate at the workshop with my presentation, but it seems to me that the unprofessional approach is something that I am getting used to when it comes to my colleagues from the National Library. I will need to emphasize the unprofessional Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-79150796272734985472008-05-08T14:52:00.000+02:002008-05-08T14:55:05.980+02:00COBISS 2007 Conference "COBISS – SUPPORTING INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE"The Annual COBISS conference"COBISS – SUPPORTING INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE" held its place in Hotel Habakuk, near Maribor, Slovenia (28–29 November 2007). I have participated at the conference in order to get an insight to the COBISS OPAC which is used by the National and University Library in Skopje. To quote my colleague Alenka Kavcic-Colic from the National and University Library in Ljubljana,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-19722829446491021282007-09-21T14:15:00.000+02:002007-10-18T15:29:58.051+02:00FOR MORE INFO PLEASE VISIT MY SITE!!! Interview for A1 TVUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-24848632994283896602007-09-21T14:03:00.001+02:002007-10-29T13:48:54.706+01:00SEEDI “Digitization of Cultural and Scientific Heritage” conference The Third SEEDI “Digitization of Cultural and Scientific Heritage” conference held its place in Cetinje, Montenegro (13-th until 15-th of September 2007). South Eastern Europe Digitalization Initiative conference was a nice opportunity for me to meet some interesting that work for the Macedonian Ministry of culture that have made an short review of the whole conference at the web site Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-34985012098940783202007-09-21T13:59:00.000+02:002007-09-21T14:03:31.372+02:00International Conference on Knowledge Management 2007My researches were also accepted on the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Management 2007 that have taken place in the heart of Vienna which was a huge success for me. Unfortunately, being unable to pay 490 euro for the registration I haven’t participated with my 15 minutes presentation. I think that a lot of you will agree that it is a pure insanity to give my 2 month salary for a 2 day Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-28603634662614943932007-06-21T14:03:00.000+02:002007-06-21T14:49:28.919+02:00LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2007LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2007The themes of this year's conference wherePart I. Users and Use of DL.Part II. Economics and digital libraries.I have meet a lot of people over there and again actively participated with my "futuristic" poster about OCR done with cheap point and shoot digital camera. A lot of people where again interested in my work (some of them where skeptical about Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-22661481386458201312007-06-19T15:22:00.000+02:002007-06-19T15:24:42.091+02:00Encyclopedia of Knowledge ManagementDavid Schwartz, «Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management»Idea Group Publishing | ISBN: 1591405734 | 2005-09-23 | 902 pages | PDF | 10.4 MbUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-65749542187053410032007-06-19T15:18:00.000+02:002007-06-19T15:21:26.676+02:00New Directions in Cognitive Information RetrievalAmanda Spink, Charles Cole, «New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval»Springer | ISBN: 140204013X | 1 ed. (Dec 22, 2005) | 250 pages | PDF | 1.6 MbUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-12933413181168686252007-06-08T15:18:00.000+02:002007-06-08T15:19:14.331+02:00Edward R. Tufte, «Envisioning Information»Edward R. Tufte, «Envisioning Information»Graphics Press | ISBN: 0961392118 | 1990-05 | 126 pages | PDF | 35 MbUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-71282443336201967542007-04-25T10:55:00.000+02:002007-04-25T14:22:32.844+02:00TERRA INCOGNITA : ART OF LIBRARIANSHIP Third international convention of Slavic Librarians in Sarajevo 19-23 April 2007 At the Sarajevo conference I have done 2 different presentations:I Advanced OCR of Rare Books and Special Collections Using cheap digital camerasII 3D Visual Search presentation about the Interface Design of the future web search. I had a great honour to meet in person Mr. Jens Redmer, Director of Google Book Search (Europe, Middle East, Africa) and have a talk with him about the OCR problems Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-3499392197942725982007-02-20T11:44:00.001+01:002007-04-25T14:24:08.543+02:00Cultural Heritage Protection OfficeOn February 20-th, 2007 I had a great honour to meet with Mr. Pasko Kuzman, Director of Cultural Heritage Protection Office at the Ministry of culture of the Republic of Macedonia.We have discussed the different possibilities for preservation of the written cultural heritage of Macedonia and the interesting project for the opening of the "St.Kliment Ohridski" University at Plaosnik, Ohrid. I canUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-1171012043800044472007-02-09T10:00:00.000+01:002007-02-09T10:07:23.810+01:00Earth's Largest Free Full-Text Science Archiveshttp://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/largest.dtlUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-1170321577201728582007-02-01T10:11:00.000+01:002007-05-22T09:38:25.604+02:00Information Management seminar at MIKROSAMOn 27.01.2007 I held a seminar in MIKROSAM Company about Information management and Global Information Infrastructure with an accent on the advanced search techniques. For more info about the company visit http://www.mikrosam.com.mk/I want to thank the owner of the company Mr. Blagoja Samakovski for his understanding of the importance of Information Science. He is probably one of the few people Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-1165225933038639212006-12-04T10:48:00.000+01:002007-03-13T12:04:20.110+01:00My Poster Presentation from Sofia 2006Dear all,I have finally uploaded my poster presentationfrom Sofia 2006 conference, 8-10 November 2006"Globalization, Digitization, Access, and Preservation of Cultural Heritage".Feel free to download the file and tell me your opinion.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-1163500749694370542006-11-14T10:48:00.000+01:002007-02-16T14:44:19.797+01:00Sofia 2006 conference Dear, I have participated at Sofia 2006 conference from 8-10 November 2006 "Globalization, Digitization, Access, and Preservation of Cultural Heritage" with my poster presentation (I promise you the PDF or TIFF file for download in couple of days). If you will like to know more about the conference visit this link.As most of you may know, my passion for my profession is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-1160858578905864742006-10-14T22:19:00.000+02:002007-05-21T14:05:01.465+02:00Macedonian NewspaperDear visitors,Just today I have made one of my best full text searchable files for the Macedonian branch of the PRISTOP communications agency http://www.pristop.si/The Daily newspaper is UTRINSKI VESNIK dated from 14-th October 2006.It is consisted of 8 color and 24 Black &White TIF files scanned at 300 dpi with total 459 MB.The PDF is OCR-ed and compressed, full text searchable at just 6.4 MB!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-1150958254525742232006-06-22T08:34:00.000+02:002006-06-22T09:43:00.773+02:00Confessions of a Scan ArtistMarch/April 2006Confessions of a Scan ArtistYou, too, can commit your life to digital --and throw away your paper records. By Simson Garfinkel As our lives become more digitized, a number of eminent computer scientists are starting to warn that our most treasured family photos, heartfelt correspondence, and legal documents might Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-1150790665618254052006-06-20T10:00:00.000+02:002006-06-22T08:47:34.526+02:00Design and Usability of Digital LibrariesYin-Leng Theng (Editor), Schubert Foo (Editor),«Design and Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Studies in the Asia Pacific»Information Science Publishing | ISBN 159140441X | 2005 Year| PDF | 6,34 Mb | 395 Pages"Design and Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Studies in the Asia Pacific showcases some of the best digital library practices from organizations in the Asia Pacific. Particular Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-1150721842261589022006-06-19T14:54:00.000+02:002007-05-22T09:23:34.624+02:00Dimitar Poposki's workYou can download my CV, samples of the e-books I've done so far and screenshots of my OCR passion If you can send me articles about Information Science and Library Science, links to scholarships in USA for Master's Degree, various sites of interests on Information Technology I will be more than happy to publish them on my blog.Thank you!--Poposki DimitarOCR Specialist for Rare Books and SpecialUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-1150364275919664422006-06-15T11:36:00.000+02:002006-06-22T08:48:42.326+02:00Creation, Use, and Deployment of Digital InformationMy gift to all the visitors of my blog who are interested in Information Science and Information Technology.Herre Van Oostendorp (Editor), et al, «Creation, Use, and Deployment of Digital Information»Lawrence Erlbaum Associates | ISBN 0805847812 | 2005 Year | PDF | 17,29 Mb | 344 PagesEdited byHerre van OostendorpUtrecht UniversityLeen BreureUtrecht UniversityAndrew DillonThe University of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-1150197248674307722006-06-13T13:09:00.000+02:002006-06-22T08:51:03.363+02:00Transformation of Knowledge, Information and Data: Theory and ApplicationsPatrick van Bommel (Editor), «Transformation of Knowledge, Information and Data: Theory and Applications»Information Science Publishing | ISBN 1591405270 | 2005 Year | PDF | 2,15 Mb | 338 PagesAnother free e-book about"...Transformation of Knowledge, Information and Data: Theory and Applications considers transformations within the context of computing science and information science, as they areUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-1150181498823324802006-06-13T08:20:00.000+02:002006-06-22T09:33:23.900+02:00LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2006 Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia 29 May – 3 June 2006Being part of this International Conference was a valuable experience for me and my passion for OCR.I have won Second place at the posters session for Professional Achievement for my work in the field of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and met a lot of interesting people there. On the picture you can see the actual moment of the award ceremony. On the left is Tefko Saracevic and on the right Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22133276.post-1142501150852706902006-03-16T10:17:00.000+01:002006-03-16T10:25:50.863+01:00Digital PreservationD-Lib MagazineJune 2005Volume 11 Number 6ISSN 1082-9873Digital PreservationArchitecture and Technology for Trusted Digital Repositories Digital Preservation Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0