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**[[IDigBio Augmenting OCR Workshop|iDigBio Augmenting OCR Workshop]] - Our working group is meeting in Gainesville, Florida, October 1 - 2, 2012. We've put together an exciting and challenging meeting agenda. | **[[IDigBio Augmenting OCR Workshop|iDigBio Augmenting OCR Workshop]] - Our working group is meeting in Gainesville, Florida, October 1 - 2, 2012. We've put together an exciting and challenging meeting agenda. | ||
=== [https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/iSchools2013 iSchools Conference 2013] === | === *[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/iSchools2013 iSchools Conference 2013] === | ||
The iDigBio AOCR working group successfully proposed a half-day workshop put together by members of our working group at the [http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/ 2013 iSchools Conference], Februay 12 in Fort Worth, Texas. | The iDigBio AOCR working group successfully proposed a half-day workshop put together by members of our working group at the [http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/ 2013 iSchools Conference], Februay 12 in Fort Worth, Texas. | ||
=== Hackathon I === | === *Hackathon I === | ||
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. | ||