This thesis combines audio-analysis with computer vision to approach Music Information
Retrieval (MIR) tasks from a multi-modal perspective. This thesis focuses on the information …

The increasing demands faced by repository systems and the growing popularity of workflow
systems introduces new risks, creating new challenges to the digital preservation …

This article gives an overview on how different components developed by the SCAPE
project are intended to be used in composite file format migration workflows; it will explain …

We consider the task of content based analysis and categorization in large-scale historical
book scanning projects. Mixed content, deprecated language, noise and unexpected …

We describe a method for defect detection and classification for collections of digital images
of historical book documents. Undistorted text images from various books characterized by …

Museums, archive and libraries are often confronted with the challenge to preserve not just
analogue data, but also digital objects for the long term. While one challenge is to store the …

Dieser Artikel gibt einen Überblick über das Europäische Forschungsprojekt SCAPE. Das
Thema „Big Data “wird im Kontext der digitalen Bibliothek mit einem Fokus auf …

This article presents an open source infrastructure for processing large collections of digital
books available at the Austrian National Library with a special focus on quality assurance …

Huge document image collections in digital libraries are prone to reduced quality and
require automatic quality assurance. This paper presents an approach for bringing together …

This paper presents an evaluation of different methods for automatic duplicate detection in
digitized collections. These approaches are meant to support quality assurance and …