The lifecycle of a digital historical document: structure and content

This paper describes the lifecycle of a digital historical document, from template-based structure definition through to content extraction from the scanned pages and its final reconstitution as an electronic document (combining content and semantic information) along with the tools that have been created to realise each stage in the lifecycle. The whole approach is described in the context of different types of typewritten documents relating to prisoners in World-War II concentration camps and is the result of a multinational collaboration under the MEMORIAL project

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: DOCENG
• Authors: Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Dimosthenis Karatzas, Henryk Krawczyk, Bogdan Wiszniewski
• Keywords: Digital Historical Document, DOCENG 2004, II Concentration Camps, Template-based Structure Definition