User collaboration for improving access to historical texts

LIBER Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 119-128

  Neudecker, Clemens ^a   Tzadok, Asaf ^b  

^a National Library of the Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^b IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

Author keywords

Correction; Crowd sourcing; Digitisation; IMPACT; OCR; User collaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956904008     PISSN: 14355205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18352/lq.7981     Document Type: Conference Paper

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