Awards 2014
[Prizes]
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library is a remarkable, distributed and cooperative effort aiming to preserve endangered content, as well as to provide online services supporting rich access to facsimilar documents.
Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance
The CESR is committed to produce both high-quality digital editions (in XML-TEI) and facsimile with reliable transcriptions, and this activity has led to the development of new open-source tools for layout analysis and for transcription.
[Commendations of Merit]
Technilógica
Tecnilógica maintains a constant innovative spirit, creating, for example, new technology for the digitisation of perforated hard cardboard disks and their conversion into MIDI files.
London Metropolitan Archives - University College London
http://www.greatparchmentbook.org
The Great Parchment Book project aimed to publish both the images and transcript online of this of fire-damaged book (165 parchment pages). As a result, new technology (planned to be open-sourced) has been created, specifically, algorithms to flatten pages from images obtained with multiple photographs.
[Full list of candidate institutions]
National Library of Finland
Austrian State Archives
Biodiversity Heritage Library
National University of Ireland, Galway
Centre d'Étude Supérieures de la Renaissance
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Digital Library for Dutch literature
Tecnilógica
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
Trier Center for Digital Humanities
London Metropolitan Archives
UC Riverside Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research
Ministry of Culture Croatia
University of Granada
Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
University of Innsbruck
National Library Board Singapore
Vinfra