An experimental workflow development platform for historical document digitisation and analysis

Clemens Neudecker; Sven Schlarb; Zeki Mustafa Dogan; Paolo Missier; Shoaib Sufi; Alan Williams; Katy Wolstencroft

doi:10.1145/2037342.2037370

An experimental workflow development platform for historical document digitisation and analysis

Clemens Neudecker, Sven Schlarb, Zeki Mustafa Dogan, Paolo Missier, Shoaib Sufi, Alan Williams, Katy Wolstencroft

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Abstract

The paper presents a novel web-based platform for experimental workflow development in historical document digitisation and analysis. The platform has been developed as part of the IMPACT project, providing a range of tools and services for transforming physical documents into digital resources. It explains the main drivers in developing the technical framework and its architecture, how and by whom it can be used and presents some initial results. The main idea lies in setting up an interoperable and distributed infrastructure based on loose coupling of tools via web services that are wrapped in modular workflow templates which can be executed, combined and evaluated in many different ways. As the workflows are registered through a Web 2.0 environment, which is integrated with a workflow management system, users can easily discover, share, rate and tag workflows and thereby support the building of capacity across the whole community. Where ground truth is available, the workflow templates can also be used to compare and evaluate new methods in a transparent and flexible way. © 2011 ACM.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series\|ACM Int. Conf. Proc. Ser.
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	161-168
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9781450309165
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2037342.2037370
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	1st International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, HIP'11, Held in Conjunction with ICDAR 2011 - Beijing Duration: 1 Jul 2011 → … http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2037342.2037370

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Name	HIP '11

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Conference	1st International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, HIP'11, Held in Conjunction with ICDAR 2011
City	Beijing
Period	1/07/11 → …
Internet address	http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2037342.2037370

Keywords

digitisation
evaluation
historical documents
optical character recognition
scientific workflow
web service

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

Manchester Institute of Biotechnology

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Neudecker, C., Schlarb, S., Dogan, Z. M., Missier, P., Sufi, S., Williams, A., & Wolstencroft, K. (2011). An experimental workflow development platform for historical document digitisation and analysis. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series|ACM Int. Conf. Proc. Ser. (pp. 161-168). (HIP '11). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2037342.2037370

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Neudecker, C, Schlarb, S, Dogan, ZM, Missier, P, Sufi, S, Williams, A & Wolstencroft, K 2011, An experimental workflow development platform for historical document digitisation and analysis. in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series|ACM Int. Conf. Proc. Ser.. HIP '11, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 161-168, 1st International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, HIP'11, Held in Conjunction with ICDAR 2011, Beijing, 1/07/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2037342.2037370

An experimental workflow development platform for historical document digitisation and analysis. / Neudecker, Clemens; Schlarb, Sven; Dogan, Zeki Mustafa et al.
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series|ACM Int. Conf. Proc. Ser.. Association for Computing Machinery, 2011. p. 161-168 (HIP '11).

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