The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre collections provide open access to significant New Zealand and Pacific Island texts and materials.
This encompasses both digitised heritage material and born-digital resources. The collections contain over 2,600 texts (around 65,000 pages) which are made available in several formats and, where possible, under a Creative Commons license.
The overall price of your project is determined using our price matrix. This involves three characteristics: typeface, legibility, and condition. A text that uses a standard modern or equivalent typeface is easier to digitize than a text that uses an obscure or difficult to decipher typeface or handwriting. Likewise, a text that is clear and uses a minimal number of character sets, or a text on pages that are not marred by physical damage such as smudges, tears, or unusual textual features, will be easier to digitize than a smudged text on worn pages. Learn more about the types of documents that can be submitted.
A hybrid of window system, shell, and editor, Acme gives text-oriented applications a clean, expressive, and consistent style of interaction. Traditional window systems support interactive client programs and offer libraries of pre-defined operations such as pop-up menus and buttons to promote a consistent user interface among the clients. Acme instead provides its clients with a fixed user interface and simple conventions to encourage its uniform use.
ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object) is a XML Schema that details technical metadata for describing the layout and content of physical text resources, such as pages of a book or a newspaper. It most commonly serves as an extension schema used within the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Schema (METS) administrative metadata section. However, ALTO instances can also exist as a standalone document used independently of METS.
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C. Rose, A. Roque, D. Bhembe, and K. VanLehn. Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 03 workshop on Building educational applications using natural language processing - Volume 2, page 68--75. Stroudsburg, PA, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, (2003)
M. Paukkeri, I. Nieminen, M. Pöllä, and T. Honkela. Coling 2008: Companion volume: Posters, page 83--86. Manchester, UK, ACL, Coling 2008 Organizing Committee, (August 2008)