1. RESEARCH TOPICS Web-Interface Performance DTD Extensibility Imaging
Distillation
Other topics?
2002 September -- ejk/UF

2. CONTEXT Image Only Pilots
Australian Periodical Publications,
National Library of New Zealand. Papers Past
Image & Indexing/Tagging Pilot
University of Florida. Caribbean Newspaper Imaging Project
University of Florida. Florida Newspaper Project
Image & OCR Pilots
Lambrakis Press Archives
ProQuest. Historical Newspapers™
TIDEN Project : a Nordic Digital Newspaper Library
Olive Software Pilot
The British Library
2002 September -- ejk/UF

3. WEB-INTERFACE PERFORMANACE
Primary Purpose:
Characterize the bias of individuals conducting study
Products:
How to use ActivePaperTM to Your Advantage
Integration with CONTENTdm, XPAT 5.0, other
Alternate deliverable images
Centralized service – Distributed content – Variable platforms
2002 September -- ejk/UF

4. DTD EXTENSIBILITY Primary Purpose:
Assess the XML against established newspaper uses
Products:
How to use ActivePaperTM to Your Advantage
Document the XML as a public DTD
Establish a maintenance authority
Provide for extension of the DTD
Automation for extended tagging
How to construct a style sheet
Integration with CONTENTdm, XPAT 5.0, other
Define issues per the Economic Model
2002 September -- ejk/UF

5. IMAGING Directory Structure and File Naming Archival Formats
Optimized Imaging
2002 September -- ejk/UF

6. IMAGING: Directory Structure and File Naming
Primary Purpose:
Recommended practices
Products:
Methods for dealing with anomalies
Automated name capture during imaging
2002 September -- ejk/UF

7. IMAGING: Archival Formats
Primary Purpose:
Description of file formats & their characteristics for archive, distillation, and distribution
Products:
Preservation metadata
Anticipate migration
Schedule & fee structure for inspection & migration
Strategy for format migrations & emulation
2002 September -- ejk/UF

8. IMAGING: Optimized Imaging
Primary Purpose:
Best practices for microfilming and digitizing (quantitative assessments)
Film reduction ratio
Evenness of illumination on film
Film background density
Quality Index & DPI/PPI
Skew
Color-space & Bit-depth
Image density/black & white points
Despeckling and Sharpening
Image restoration methods
2002 September -- ejk/UF

9. IMAGING: Optimized Imaging
Environments:
Operating System
Scanning Hardware
Lighting and Light Filtration
Post-processing
Other?
Other Products:
Control target for OCR assessment
Revision: RLG Preservation Microfilming Guidelines
2002 September -- ejk/UF

10. DISTILLATION Document Zoning Optical Character Recognition
2002 September -- ejk/UF

11. DISTILLATION: Document Zoning
Primary Purpose:
Confirm assumptions re: document zoning
OCR has difficulty processing large letters
Smaller zone yield more accurate text
Products:
Establish reference to the . . .
PDF (fully scaled)
TIFF
Other derivative file formats (fully scaled)
2002 September -- ejk/UF

12. DISTILLATION: OCR Primary Purpose:
Provide quantitative OCR accuracy information
Areas of Investigation:
Distillation Source Images
Language and Fonts
Column & Line Density
Relative Density/Contrast
Text Curvature and Other Defects
2002 September -- ejk/UF

13. DISTILLATION: OCR Distillation Source Images Primary Purpose:
Predict accuracy contingent upon source document (printing technologies & filming standards)
Test-Set Characterization:
Source type (newspaper or microfilm)
Production date (technologies & standards used)
Additional Products:
Best practices
Accuracy : Cost – Matrix
2002 September -- ejk/UF

14. DISTILLATION: OCR Language and Fonts Primary Purpose:
Demonstrate ability to distill languages, character sets & fonts
Test-Set Characterization:
Language & character set groups
Font face & font size groups
Regional variant spellings
Additional Products:
Olive Software Speaks Your Language
How Olive Software Learns Your Lingo
Stylized text recognition & distillation guide
2002 September -- ejk/UF

15. DISTILLATION: OCR Column & Line Density Primary Purpose:
Demonstrate ability to distill compact text
Test-Set Characterization:
Pre-1900 newspapers
Advertisement pages
Pages predominantly 8 pt. type or less
Pages with less than 1 mm space between lines
Pages with characters spaced at or below ⅓ mm
2002 September -- ejk/UF

16. DISTILLATION: OCR Relative Density/Contrast Primary Purpose:
Investigate low and uneven contrast materials
Test-Set Characterization:
Low contrast pages
Pages with low contrast zones
Printing, Filming, & Age/Storage Defects
Additional Products:
Best practices
Accuracy : Cost – Matrix
Don’t forget to buy the Life Insurance
2002 September -- ejk/UF

17. DISTILLATION: OCR Text Curvature and Other Defects Primary Purpose:
Benchmark current capability to distill curved text & other defects of printing or filming
Test-Set Characterization:
Curved text zones
Broken character zones
Broken line zones
Garbage elements (stains, etc.)
Additional Products:
(Additional automatic image correction processes)
2002 September -- ejk/UF