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| Keynote | Invited Keynote Speaker: Curt Witcher, Historical Genealogy Department, Allen County Public Library | |||
| Session 1 | Record Linkage |
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Development of an Evaluation Paradigm for “RecordMatch” and its Application to GenMergeDB Clustering Results |
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Record Linkage and Tagging for the BYU Historic Journals Project
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Genealogical Record Linkage: Features for Automated Person Matching |
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| Session 2 | Human Interface to Genealogical Data |
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The Folk Date Pattern |
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Using Microsoft Pivot to Display Genealogical Data |
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Go Forward and not Backward: Dramatically Accelerating the Rate of Innovation in Family History Technology ‐‐ lessons learned from genomics and the space race |
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| Lunch and Speaker | Family History Technology: Where have we been and where are we going? William Barrett, Professor, BYU CS Department |
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| Session 3 | Document Digitization and Processing |
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High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) for Preservation of Historical Documents |
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Contrast Enhancement using Locally Adaptive Binarization Techniques |
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Measuring Image Quality |
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Using GPUs for Image Processing |
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| Session 4 | Modern Apps and Interfaces |
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Capstone: Gather Valuable Information Found on Headstones as an Automated Process |
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Relative Finder Facebook Application: Generating Genuine Interest in Genealogy |
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The Gamification of Genealogy: Potential Impact on Participation in Family History |
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Important Dates
- January 21, 2011
Papers Due - February 11, 2011
Day of Conference