Presentation of the activities performed by the Impact Centre of Competence during the years 2014 and 2015.

1. Management Report
Impact Centre of Competence
2014 - 2015

2. Tools and Resources
(www.digitisation.eu/tools-resources)
● Impact Images and GT Dataset for 7 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch,
French, Polish, Spanish & Slovene (English license under negotiation and
German on demand).
● Impact Lexica Resources for 7 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French,
German, Polish, Spanish, Slovene (English on demand).
Management Report 2014-2015

3. Website and Blog
● New website in wordpress structured in
5 sections:
○ About
○ Tools & Resources
○ Services
○ Training
○ Community
● 427 registered users & 13.088 unique
visits (2014&2015)
● Blog with 5.257 unique visits open to all
members to publish content
Management Report 2014-2015
(www.digitisation.eu & www.digitisation.eu/blog )

4. Online platform
● Online platform demonstrating over
40 tools covering all steps in the
digitisation workflow.
● New features:
○ Workflows can be executed
○ Drag & Drop input
○ Full integration with website (log-in,
dataset viewer).
Management Report 2014-2015
(www.digitisation.eu/tools-resources/demonstrator-platform)

5. ICoC Dataset Viewer
● Dataset with over 250.000 images
and 30.000 GT files.
● Advanced capabilities
○ Filters (search refinement)
○ Clipboard allows using a selection on
the online platform.
Management Report 2014-2015
(www.digitisation.eu/tools-resources/image-and-ground-truth-resources)

6. ICoC Dissemination
● New members
● Social Media
Management Report 2014-2015

7. Events
Organised by the Impact Centre:
● Digitisation Days & DATeCH International Conference
2014 (Almost 200 attendees, 5 companies showcasing,
31 authors presenting)
● Impact Annual General Meeting 2014 (Madrid)
● TPDL2015 Workshop
● Impact Annual General Meeting 2015 (Alicante)
Participations:
LIBER, IFLA, Succeed’s Final Conference.
Management Report 2014-2015

8. Support & liaison activities
The Impact Centre provided support to a number of requests:
● Partnership in a national project in the Netherlands.
● Impact lexica: improving BIT Alpha tool; distribution with the LMU PoCoTo.
● Requests related to specific tools.
The Centre signed MoUs with:
● Open Preservation Foundation.
● PREFORMA project.
Management Report 2014-2015

9. IMPACT & OPF MOOC
Target users:
1. Focused on access.
2. Managers – ITs.
3. Librarians.
4. Researchers.
5. Individuals.
6. Managers.
7. Students.
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Modules:
1. General introduction.
2. Image capture.
3. Conversion.
4. Publication.
5. Management.
6. Preservation.
● Kick-off at TPDL2015 for the identiofication of
● Current phase: distribution of roles.

10. Next Steps
● Consolidation of Latin America expansion, led by Universidad de Guadalajara
(Mexico).
● Launch Asian expansion, led by National Library of Singapore.
● Digitisation Days & DATeCH 2016.
● IMPACT & OPF MOOC
● Enhance the visibility of the Impact Centre.
● IMPACT Awards.
● Definition of new R&D projects.
Management Report 2014-2015