Poposki Dimitar

Current

Information Manager/Digitization expert at Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski"

Past

Main Librarian at the Department for Translation and Interpretation at Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski"
Visiting Scholar at Karl Franzens University - Graz, Austria
OCR Specialist at Rutgers _ The State University of New Jersey

Research Analyst, OCR Specialist at Scholarly Communication Center in the Rutgers University Libraries

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Education

Sveuèilište u Zagrebu
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

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Poposki Dimitar’s Summary

Digitization consultant/Information Manager and Optical Character Recognition Specialist with substantial library experience. Research Analyst with proved abilities to work and evaluate any type of OCR software used. Specializing in Rare Books and Special Collections written in non-existing languages ( managed to OCRecognition of Old English, German, French, Macedonian, Bulgarian) along with 176 world languages. Interested in academic work as well, and advising corporations/libraries on Information management/Digitization Initiatives.

Poposki Dimitar’s Specialties:

Creation of Digital Libraries/ Scientific Repositories, Optical Character Recognition, Scanning, Compression, Information Management, Information Architecture - projects about digitization initiatives.

Poposki Dimitar’s Experience

Information Manager/Digitization expert

Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski"

(Education Management industry)

September 2008 — Present (11 months)
Main Librarian at the Department for Translation and Interpretation

Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski"

(Education Management industry)

September 2001 — September 2008 (7 years 1 month)
Visiting Scholar

Karl Franzens University - Graz, Austria

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Education Management industry)

March 2008 — March 2008 (1 month)

Gained experience in the field of Information Science. Held lectures about Digitization and Preservation of the digital content materials. Started International cooperation in the field of Corpora Linguistics and Machine Assisted Translation.
OCR Specialist

Rutgers _ The State University of New Jersey

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2005 — July 2005 (3 months)

05/2005-07/2005
Completed second internship at the SCC - Alexander Library and presented new OCR techniques done on an old English John Milton book from 17-th Century. Investigated the transition of the Fedora Digital Library software from 1.2 to 2.0 version as Research Analyst.
Research Analyst, OCR Specialist

Scholarly Communication Center in the Rutgers University Libraries

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Libraries industry)

December 2004 — June 2005 (7 months)

12/2004-05/2005
Conducted an internship at the Scholarly Communication center in Alexander Library (Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey).
Developed and implemented new OCR techniques working on research and evaluation of the new OCR software programs.

Poposki Dimitar’s Education

Sveuèilište u Zagrebu

PhD , Information Science , 2008 — 2010 (expected)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

non-degree program , Library and Information Science - Digital Libraries, Digitization, Optical Character Recognition , 2004 — 2005

Activities and Societies:

7 month Internship at the http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/scchome/