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Mapping Bibliotheca Hertziana

The project introduces an innovative visual method for analysing libraries and archives, with a focus on Bibliotheca Hertziana’s library collection. This collection, which dates back over a century, is examined by integrating user loan data with deep mappi ...

2024

Querying the Digital Archive of Science: Distant Reading, Semantic Modelling and Representation of Knowledge

Alina Volynskaya

The archive of science is a place where scientific practices are sedimented in the form of drafts, protocols of rejected hypotheses and failed experiments, obsolete instruments, outdated visualizations and other residues. Today, just as science goes more a ...

EPFL2024

Fine Arts in Transition: An Operative Research and Teaching Approach between Analogue and Digital

Nicola Braghieri, Filippo Fanciotti

The volume collects the material produced for the exhibition 'The Sky in the Room' and a selection of scientific texts on the question of analogue continuity in digital transition. The contributions will be focused on verifying the operative method in teac ...

EPFL Press2024

Understanding Digital Libraries as Open Spaces

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Building on an ongoing case study of how readers navigate the corpus of BnF Gallica and on a nascent project at OpenEdition, I will venture an understanding of digital libraries as open spaces at the crossroads of political spaces—with their governance res ...

2023

What about Diamond Open Access?

Guillaume Anciaux

Diamond Open Access is a scholarly publishing model characterized by journals and platforms that do not impose fees nor on authors neither on readers. These journals typically operate as community-driven, academically-led, and academically-owned initiative ...

2023

Genetic Algorithms for the Discovery of Homogeneous Catalysts

Rubén Laplaza Solanas, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Puck Elisabeth van Gerwen, Alexandre Alain Schöpfer, Simone Gallarati

In this account, we discuss the use of genetic algorithms in the inverse design process of homogeneous catalysts for chemical transformations. We describe the main components of evolutionary experiments, specifically the nature of the fitness function to o ...

2023

Technology Mapping Using Multi-output Library Cells

Giovanni De Micheli, Alessandro Tempia Calvino

Technology mapping transforms a technology-independent representation into a technology-dependent one given a library of cells. Even if technology libraries contain multi-output cells, state-of-the-art techniques fully exploit single-output cells only. Mul ...

2023

Design of an artificial phage-display library based on a new scaffold improved for average stability of the randomized proteins

Ghérici Hassaïne

Scaffold-based protein libraries are designed to be both diverse and rich in functional/folded proteins. However, introducing an extended diversity while preserving stability of the initial scaffold remains a challenge. Here we developed an original approa ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

“Methodological Criss-Crossing”: A Mixed Methods Ethnography of a Digital Library

Simon François Dumas Primbault

At the crossroads of the ethnography of scholarly practices and digital humanities, this study proposes to consider the exploratory aspect of the scientific activity as an intellectual path through a corpus made accessible by an online platform. My case st ...

2022

How to Orient Oneself in Thinking in the Digital Era: A mixed-methods ethnography of researchers' navigational practices on Gallica

Simon François Dumas Primbault

The birth and development of digital libraries—broadly understood as curated collections of electronic documents accessible online on dedicated platforms with tools for search and consultation—have radically transformed research activities. Consequently, t ...

2022

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