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Index-Driven Digitization and Indexation of Historical Archives

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

Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition Transkribus as a case study

Frédéric Kaplan, Sofia Ares Oliveira

Purpose An overview of the current use of handwritten text recognition (HTR) on archival manuscript material, as provided by the EU H2020 funded Transkribus platform. It explains HTR, demonstrates Transkribus, gives examples of use cases, highlights the af ...

EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Symposium ‘Ghost Writers: Collectors, Creators, Archives, and Memory’

Matthew Skjonsberg

Design practice depends heavily on display of drawings or photographs – representations of buildings and landscapes – from architecture schools to competitions and from client meetings to the final publicity of a completed project. Archives and other recor ...

2019

Beyond Keyword Search: Semantic Indexing and Exploration of Large Collections of Historical Newspapers

Maud Ehrmann

For long held on library and archive shelving, historical newspapers are currently undergoing mass digitization and millions of facsimiles, along with their machine-readable content acquired via Optical Character Recognition, are becoming accessible via a ...

2019

“Inventions Represented by Models”: How Switzerland’s First Patent System Excluded Chemical Inventions (1888-1907)

Nicolas Christophe Chachereau

In matters of patents of invention, Switzerland was a unique case in the nineteenth century. After a brief experiment between 1801 and 1803, the country remained without a patent system until 1888. Not only was this situation exceptional in Europe and espe ...

2019

Linked Books: un indice citazionale per la storia di Venezia

Matteo Romanello, Giovanni Colavizza

We present the outcomes of the Linked Books project, resulting in a prototype citation index interlinking the Italian national library catalog (Opac SBN) with the information system of the State Archive of Venice and international authority records or “met ...

2019

Beyond Classical Resonances. Stockholm Mass-Housing Experiments Before the 1930

Chiara Monterumisi

The goal of the 1930 Stockholm exhibition was to illustrate a national project around dwellings and household goods for the Swedish mass. Indeed, in the manifesto acceptera, the organisers masterminded by Gregor Paulsson, investigated the cultural situatio ...

2018

Phonological Posterior Hashing for Query by Example Spoken Term Detection

Hervé Bourlard, Afsaneh Asaei, Dhananjay Ram

State of the art query by example spoken term detection (QbE-STD) systems in zero-resource conditions rely on representation of speech in terms of sequences of class-conditional posterior probabilities estimated by deep neural network (DNN). The posteriors ...

ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2018

Beyond ePortfolios: Creating, Exploiting, and Archiving Activity Traces, Learning Outcomes, and Learning Analytics as Personal Shareable Online Spaces

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk

The concept of an ePortfolio was introduced in 1999 as an electronic learning record and further developed to overcome the limitation of learning management systems lacking persistent storage for learning artifacts. Nowadays, educational platforms have evo ...

IEEE2017

The Search for Affordable Cement and Concrete in the 18th and 19th Century

Salvatore Aprea

The interest of German building masters towards hydraulic binders grows at the third decade of the 19th century. This acute interest is stimulated by the import of «Roman Cement» from England and by the acquisition of the knowledge related to it. The disse ...

2017

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