## [Presenting KB research](/news/presenting-kb-research) Inhoudsblokken Body Recently several presentations with a connection to the KB lab took place. Here we provide an overview of those presentation and where to find their slides or recordings. ### June **Title:** Is your OCR good enough? Probably so. An assessment of the impact of OCR quality on downstream tasks for Dutch texts **Presenters:** Konstantin Todorov (University of Amsterdam), [Mirjam Cuper](/person/mirjam-cuper "Mirjam Cuper") (National Library of the Netherlands), and [Giovanni Colavizza](/person/dr-giovanni-colavizza "Dr Giovanni Colavizza") (University of Amsterdam) **Congress**: DHBenelux 2021 **Date:** 4 june 2021 **Abstracts:** - Short: - Extensive: **Related:** - Dataset: [Is your OCR good enough?](/dataset/your-ocr-good-enough "Is your OCR good enough?") - Blog: [Is your OCR good enough? A comprehensive assessment of the impact of OCR quality on downstream tasks](/about-us/blog/your-ocr-good-enough-comprehensive-assessment-impact-ocr-quality-downstream-tasks "Is your OCR good enough? A comprehensive assessment of the impact of OCR quality on downstream tasks."). - Blog:[ Is your OCR good enough? Probably so. Results from an assessment of the impact of OCR quality on downstream tasks](/about-us/blog/your-ocr-good-enough-probably-so-results-assessment-impact-ocr-quality-downstream "Is your OCR good enough? Probably so. Results from an assessment of the impact of OCR quality on downstream tasks."). **Title:** Examining a multi-layered approach for classification of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) quality without Ground Truth (part 2) **Presenter:** [Mirjam Cuper](/person/mirjam-cuper "Mirjam Cuper") **Congress**: DHBenelux 2021 **Date:** 4 june 2021 **Slides**: **Abstract:** - Short: - Extensive: ### May **Title:** Cities in interaction. Analysing the Dutch system of cities with computational methods. **Presenter:** [Antoine Peris](/person/antoine-peris-msc "Antoine Peris") **Type:** PhD defence **Date:** 10 May 2021 **Recording:** **Related:** - Blog: [Looking for cities in historical newspapers](/about-us/blog/looking-cities-historical-newspapers "Looking for cities in historical newspapers") - Dataset: [Digger](/dataset/digger "DIGGER") ### April **Title:** Wizards & Prophets on Artificial Intelligence in the Cultural sector, Collaboration is Key **Presenters:** [Martijn Kleppe](/person/dr-martijn-kleppe "Dr Martijn Kleppe") and Erik Boekesteijn **Congress**: Bibliothekstagung der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft **Date:** 27 April 2021 **Slides & abstract**: ### March **Title:** Examining a multi-layered approach for classification of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) quality without Ground Truth **Presenter:** [Mirjam Cuper](/person/mirjam-cuper "Mirjam Cuper") **Congress:** What’s Past is Prologue: The NewsEye International Conference **Date:** 17 March 2021 **Slides:** **Title:** AI in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Dutch) **Presenters:** [Lotte Wilms](/person/lotte-wilms "Lotte Wilms"), [Thomas Haighton](/person/thomas-haighton "Thomas Haighton") and [Martijn Kleppe](/person/dr-martijn-kleppe "Dr Martijn Kleppe") **Congress**: UKB Webinar **Date:** 16 March 2021 **Slides**: **Title**: OCR qva!ity matters in Digital Humanities research **Presenter**: [Mirjam Cuper](/person/mirjam-cuper "Mirjam Cuper") **Congress:** Keynote voor de workshop 'OCR – Processes and Developments' organized by ZB MED – Information Center for Life Sciences, TIB – Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology and ZBW – Leibniz Information for Economics, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz. **Date:** 1 March 2021 **Slides**: