Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Transforming Japanese Archives into Accessible Digital Books

  Tatsuya Ishihara, Toshinari Itoko, Daisuke Sato, Asaf Tzadok, Hironobu Takagi (2012) — JCDL '12: Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

  This JCDL 2012 paper from IBM Research Tokyo and Haifa tackles a problem that remained invisible in most English-focused digitisation work: producing fully accessible digital books from Japanese archives, where the writing system uses more than 10,00…

  • accessible ebooks
  • digitization
  • japanese
  • OCR
  • DAISY
  • EPUB
  • crowdsourcing
  • print disability
  • structural metadata
  • ALTO
  • kanji
  • national libraries