2013 AOCR Hackathon Wiki

Welcome to the 2013 iDigBio AOCR Hackathon Wiki

• Short URL to this hackathon wiki http://tinyurl.com/aocrhackathonwiki
• Those participating in the first iDigBio AOCR Hackathon need an iDigBio account.
• Note: This wiki page undergoing frequent updates and some participants have wiki edit permissions and will add to / update / edit these pages before, during and after the hackathon.

Links to Logistics, Communication, and Participant Information

• Participant List
  
• Call for Participation
  
• Application Form*
  
• Travel, Food, Lodging, Connectivity Logistics
  
• 2013 Hackathon Listserv, a mailing list for Hackathon Participants at aocr-hackathon-l@lists.ufl.edu

Overview of the Challenge

• 2013 iDigBio AOCR Hackathon Challenge
  • overall description of the problem
  • the specific challenge: parse OCR output to find values for these core data elements
  • read about the_metrics to be used

  "core" fields   

link to explanations and examples of the 3 data sets

  set 1: LBCC label images
  set 2: NYBG and BRIT label images
  set 3: CalBug ENT label images

link to page summarizing the rules we followed to transcribe the gold set (and others)

Text Transcription Issues

Known OCR, ML, NLP Issues and challenges

Human-in-the-loop: User Interface Wish List

*Thank you NESCent, Hilmar Lapp and the HIP working group for this model.