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Querying the Digital Archive of Science: Distant Reading, Semantic Modelling and Representation of Knowledge
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are sedimented in the form of drafts, protocols of rejected hypotheses and failed experiments, obsolete instruments, outdated visualizations and other residues.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 ...
EPFL2024Actors and Objects of Heritage Preservation. The Singular and Dual Condition of Historical Architectural Archives
Salvatore Aprea, Barbara Galimberti
In a society that recognizes the urgency of safeguarding the environment and drastically limiting land transformations and energy-intensive activities like constructing new buildings, the protection of architectural and environmental heritage is no longer ...
2024From Archival Sources to Structured Historical Information: Annotating and Exploring the "Accordi dei Garzoni"
Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Orlin Biserov Topalov
If automatic document processing techniques have achieved a certain maturity for present time documents, the transformation of hand-written documents into well-represented, structured and connected data which can satisfactorily be used for historical study ...
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group2023Impromptu Conservation – Unveiling Huế's Mnemonic Sites: Heritagization, (de)Colonization, and Place-making
This dissertation interrogates postcolonial cities’ syncretic territories, using Huế’s mnemonic sites – historically and culturally significant locales that aid in remembrance – to explore displaced communities’ cohabitation tactics and decolonization effo ...
EPFL2023Living industrial heritage in a persistent company town.
In recent decades, industrial heritage has gained notoriety among the richness of heritage narratives. However, its promotion is primarily done by the production entities and business archives, and less attention is given to the significant contribution of ...
2023Villas through Press. The Endorsement of the Escape by Hoepli and Görlich in Postwar Italy
In the collective imagination, the villa is a manifesto of ‘the good life’, often representing for architects a laboratory for stylistic experimentation, as an exception in their portfolio. The fate of the villa in contemporary architecture and research cu ...
2023When the industry built the city: business archives, memory and community in a contemporary company town
This short essay illustrates the role of the business archive in the transmission and maintenance of contemporary industrial culture, with a focus on the company town of Dalmine. In the context of Dalmine, the business archive managed by the Fondazione Dal ...
EPFL Press English Imprint2023Concrete: Cosmetic and Care
Sarah Nichols, Akshar Shaileshkumar Gajjar, Marion Moutal
‘Concrete: Cosmetic and Care’ focuses on a heavy heritage: the mass of mainly post-war structures in reinforced concrete. The post-war building boom covered the globe with an unprecedented amount of concrete. Production of every ton of cement alone release ...
2023AiiDA-defects: an automated and fully reproducible workflow for the complete characterization of defect chemistry in functional materials
Nicola Marzari, Sokseiha Muy, Conrad Johnston
Functional materials that enable many technological applications in our everyday lives owe their unique properties to defects that are carefully engineered and incorporated into these materials during processing. However, optimizing and characterizing thes ...
IOP Publishing Ltd2023Authenticated private information retrieval
Bryan Alexander Ford, Simone Maria Stefano Colombo, Henry Nathaniel Corrigan-Gibbs, Kirill Nikitin
This paper introduces protocols for authenticated private information retrieval. These schemes enable a client to fetch a record from a remote database server such that (a) the server does not learn which record the client reads, and (b) the client either ...
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