Article Review IMPACT: Working Together to Address the Challenges Involving Mass Digitization of Historical Printed Text
Article Review
IMPACT: Working Together to Address the Challenges Involving Mass Digitization of Historical Printed Text
Balk, H. & Ploeger, L. (2009). IMPACT: Working together to address the challenges involving mass digitization of historical printed text. OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, 25(4), 233-248. doi 10.1108/10650750911001824
The article which title is ‘IMPACT: Working Together to Address the Challenges Involving Mass Digitization of Historical Printed Text’, written by Hildelies Balk and Lieke Ploeger is one of the best article that I have read. This is because, through this article, I get to know how Improving Access to Text (IMPACT) project give solutions for the first time to transform large amounts of digitized historical texts into electronic text with a minimum of manual and a significantly improved accessibility for the user.
The authors of this article consist of two, which are Hildelies Balk and Lieke Ploeger. The first author is Hildelies Balk. She holds a PhD in the history of art and is an experienced researcher and programme manager in the field of cultural heritage. She joined the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) in 2006 as head of National Digitisation Programmes. After coordinating the forming of the IMPACT consortium and procuring the funding for this project she became coordinator of the project. She now heads the European Projects section within the department of Research and Development of the KB.
The second author is Lieke Ploeger. She is the project assistant for the IMPACT project. She has graduated in 2005 from the University of Utrecht with MA’s in Modern Western Literature and Translation Studies (English). She has previously worked as an office manager for RAND Europe and as a freelance translator of Dutch, English and Portuguese.
In this paper, I reviewing the article, evaluate the article’s strengths, weaknesses and validity and offer comments about selected aspects,
IMPACT: Working Together to Address the Challenges Involving Mass Digitization of Historical Printed Text
Balk, H. & Ploeger, L. (2009). IMPACT: Working together to address the challenges involving mass digitization of historical printed text. OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, 25(4), 233-248. doi 10.1108/10650750911001824
The article which title is ‘IMPACT: Working Together to Address the Challenges Involving Mass Digitization of Historical Printed Text’, written by Hildelies Balk and Lieke Ploeger is one of the best article that I have read. This is because, through this article, I get to know how Improving Access to Text (IMPACT) project give solutions for the first time to transform large amounts of digitized historical texts into electronic text with a minimum of manual and a significantly improved accessibility for the user.
The authors of this article consist of two, which are Hildelies Balk and Lieke Ploeger. The first author is Hildelies Balk. She holds a PhD in the history of art and is an experienced researcher and programme manager in the field of cultural heritage. She joined the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) in 2006 as head of National Digitisation Programmes. After coordinating the forming of the IMPACT consortium and procuring the funding for this project she became coordinator of the project. She now heads the European Projects section within the department of Research and Development of the KB.
The second author is Lieke Ploeger. She is the project assistant for the IMPACT project. She has graduated in 2005 from the University of Utrecht with MA’s in Modern Western Literature and Translation Studies (English). She has previously worked as an office manager for RAND Europe and as a freelance translator of Dutch, English and Portuguese.
In this paper, I reviewing the article, evaluate the article’s strengths, weaknesses and validity and offer comments about selected aspects,