Digitalization of Otto Encyclopaedia

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Authors	SOJKA Petr
Year of publication	2001
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Kritické edice hudebních památek IV
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Informatics
Citation
Web	http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/sojka/publ.html
Field	Use of computers, robotics and its application
Keywords	digitalization; Otto encyclopaedia; OCR; navigation
Description	An experience from the process of adding logical markup to visually tagged scanned data is presented. Method of gradual markup enhancement is outlined. Methods of navigation in a~large hypertext document based on typesetting from logical markup are suggested---physical, logical and semantic user views. Their application on a~29,000 page digitization project to create an electronic encyclopaedia is described. Problems faced in applying Adobe's Acrobat technology for encyclopaedia publishing are discussed.
Related projects:	Natural Language Processing Laboratory (with applications supporting education of people with limited sight) Human-computer interaction, dialog systems and assistive technologies