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Digitisation of Historical Agricultural Censuses

(photo INBO)
(photo INBO)

Details

The goal of this pilot is to fine tune the methodology to digitise the historical agricultural censuses. In a follow up project, we will digitise these historical agricultural cesusses in a database including the metadata and GIS links with the aim to publish this as open data. The goals of this pilot inclute: 1) Recognising the table structure during OCR procedure (rows, kolumns, headers) 2) Improving and validating the OCR recognition of the numbers 3) Creating a data flow from pdf to data table and finally database
Status Running
Actual start/end date 01/01/2024 - 01/01/2025

Teams

INBO Research theme(s)

  • Protected nature
  • Forest
  • Data & infrastructure

Tags

  • historical-ecology
  • historicalmaps