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Actors and Objects of Heritage Preservation. The Singular and Dual Condition of Historical Architectural Archives

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 ...

2024

Living industrial heritage in a persistent company town.

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

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 ...

2023

Index-Driven Digitization and Indexation of Historical Archives

Maud Ehrmann, Giovanni Colavizza

The promise of digitization of historical archives lies in their indexation at the level of contents. Unfortunately, this kind of indexation does not scale, if done manually. In this article we present a method to bootstrap the deployment of a content-base ...

2019

X-ray spectrometry and imaging for ancient administrative handwritten documents

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin, Marco Stampanoni

‘Venice Time Machine’ is an international program whose objective is transforming the ‘Archivio di Stato’ – 80 km of archival records documenting every aspect of 1000 years of Venetian history – into an open‐access digital information bank. Our study is pa ...

2015

X-ray spectrometry and imaging for ancient administrative handwritten documents

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin, Marco Stampanoni

‘Venice Time Machine’ is an international program whose objective is transforming the ‘Archivio di Stato’ – 80 km of archival records documenting every aspect of 1000 years of Venetian history – into an open-access digital information bank. Our study is pa ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

X-ray Spectrometry and imaging for ancient handwritten document

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin, Marco Stampanoni

We detected handwritten characters in ancient documents from several centuries with different synchrotron x-ray imaging techniques. The results were correlated to those of x-ray fluorescence analysis. In most cases, heavy elements produced high image quali ...

2014

Information exchange in user communities

Thomas Langenberg

In this dissertation I examine information processing in communities of product technology users – that is the question of how individual level information exchange in networks of personal relationships influences firm-level outcomes. I draw on research in ...

EPFL2007

Unsupervised Learning for Information Distillation

Kamand Kamangar

Current document archives are enormously large and constantly increasing and that makes it practically impossible to make use of them efficiently. To analyze and interpret large volumes of speech and text of these archives in multiple languages and produce ...

IDIAP2007

Lazy Asynchronous I/O for Event-Driven Servers

Willy Zwaenepoel

In this paper , we introduce Lazy Asynchronous I/O (LAIO),a new API for performing I/O that is well-suited but not limited to the needs of high-performance, event-driven servers. In addition, we describe and evaluate an implementation of LAIO that demonstr ...

2004

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