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On Thursday 22nd October the 9th Annual E-Books Conference was held at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. This event felt timely due to the recent increase in dedicated mass-market e-book readers available on the market and the proliferation of large screen smart ‘phones, such as the iphone.
The first presentation, for which Colin Galloway kindly [...]
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After attending Mash Oop North (#mashlib09) in Huddersfield last week, I’ve been playing around with some of the tools and services mentioned at the event. One service that appealed to my imagination was Dipity, which was shown by Brian Kelly in his Enthusiastic Amateurs session. I particularly liked the example of its use in creating [...]
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Most people are probably familiar with CAPTCHA style authentication, whereby online transactions are verified as being human rather than machine generated through the requirement to type displayed text. This spam filtering mechanism is now common when setting up email accounts, buying goods online or even booking a place at a CILIPS CPD event!
However, the [...]
Filed under: digital libraries | Tagged: CAPTCHA, digital libraries, digitisation, ocr, optical character recognition, reCAPTCHA, spam filters | Leave a Comment »
