Publications by Lucas Arnaud André Rappo

Revealing the Structure of Land Ownership through the Automatic Vectorisation of Swiss Cadastral Plans

Isabella Di Lenardo, Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre

This paper explores how the dynamics and structure of land ownership can be studied by automating the vectorisation of historical cadastral sources. Our analysis focuses mainly on three cadastres of Lausanne (1722, 1831, 1883). The plans are first georefer ...

2024

An end-to-end pipeline for historical censuses processing

Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Marion Kramer

Censuses are structured documents of great value for social and demographic history, which became widespread from the nineteenth century on. However, the plurality of formats and the natural variability of historical data make their extraction arduous and ...

2023

Lausanne Historical Censuses Dataset HTR 35k

Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Marion Kramer

This training dataset includes a total of 34,913 manually transcribed text segments. It is dedicated to the handwritten text recognition (HTR) of historical sources, typically tabular records, such as censuses. This dataset is based on a sample of 83 pages ...

Zenodo2023

Recartographier l'espace napoléonien : Une lecture computationnelle du cadastre historique de Lausanne

Isabella Di Lenardo, Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre

Le cadastre napoléonien est une source historique relativement homogène et largement répandue. Cela rend une approche computationnelle particulièrement pertinente. Dans cette étude, nous proposons une méthode de reconnaissance et de vectorisation automatiq ...

2023

1805-1898 Census Records of Lausanne : a Long Digital Dataset for Demographic History

Isabella Di Lenardo, Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Marion Kramer

This historical dataset stems from the project of automatic extraction of 72 census records of Lausanne, Switzerland. The complete dataset covers a century of historical demography in Lausanne (1805-1898), which corresponds to 18,831 pages, and nearly 6 mi ...

Zenodo2023