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**Our working group is planning a [http://tinyurl.com/aocrHack Hackathon], concurrent with the above iSchools workshop to reach out beyond our natural history collections boarders for those with skills needed to improve and enhance our existing strategies for using OCR of images and parsing OCR output. The Hackathon is scheduled for February 13 - 14 at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT). Members of the natural history community will be invited to participate and a general call will go out to the broader community for interested applicants in early to mid November of 2013. | **Our working group is planning a [http://tinyurl.com/aocrHack Hackathon], concurrent with the above iSchools workshop to reach out beyond our natural history collections boarders for those with skills needed to improve and enhance our existing strategies for using OCR of images and parsing OCR output. The Hackathon is scheduled for February 13 - 14 at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT). Members of the natural history community will be invited to participate and a general call will go out to the broader community for interested applicants in early to mid November of 2013. | ||
**[http://tinyurl.com/iDigBioAOCRHackathon Application to Participate in the iDigBio 2013 Hackathon] | **[http://tinyurl.com/iDigBioAOCRHackathon Application to Participate in the iDigBio 2013 Hackathon] | ||
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/citscribe-hackathon| iDigBio CITScribe Hackathon] | |||
**The iDigBio AOCR working group participated in iDigBio's second hackathon, the [https://www.idigbio.org/content/citscribe-hackathon| iDigBio CITScribe Hackathon]. Members of the aOCR working group, Andrea Matsunaga, Jason Best, William Ulate, Reed Beaman, and Deborah Paul were joined by Miao Chen (Syracuse University, currently Visiting Scholar at Indiana University's Data to Insight Center) and [http://botany.si.edu/staff/staffpage.cfm?thisName=68| Sylvia Orli], Information Management & Research Support, Botany Department at the Smithsonian. | |||
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