Publications related to Data curation

impresso Text Reuse at Scale. An interface for the exploration of text reuse data in semantically enriched historical newspapers

Text Reuse reveals meaningful reiterations of text in large corpora. Humanities researchers use text reuse to study, e.g., the posterior reception of influential texts or to reveal evolving publication practices of historical media. This research is often ...

2023

Why is the winner the best?

Gabriel Girard, Jian Wang, Ho Ling Li, Adrien Raphaël Depeursinge, Yong Yang, Fan Xia, Xiao Wang, Jing Li, Hui Wang

International benchmarking competitions have become fundamental for the comparative performance assessment of image analysis methods. However, little attention has been given to investigating what can be learnt from these competitions. Do they really gener ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

Radical Intangibles: Materializing the Ephemeral

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Lillian Hibberd, Jeffrey Shaw

New materialism considers that the world and its histories are produced by a range of material forces that extend from the physical and the biological to the psychological, social and cultural. In recognizing that heritage is not held in objects alone, new ...

2021

Materials Cloud, a platform for open computational science

Berend Smit, Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Martin Uhrin, Fernando Gargiulo, Aliaksandr Yakutovich, Christoph Leopold Talirz, Sebastiaan Philippe Huber, Snehal Pramod Kumbhar, Casper Welzel Andersen, Spyros Zoupanos, Elsa Passaro, Daniele Passerone

Materials Cloud is a platform designed to enable open and seamless sharing of resources for computational science, driven by applications in materials modelling. It hosts (1) archival and dissemination services for raw and curated data, together with their ...

2020

Designing Singlet Fission Candidates from Donor-Acceptor Copolymers

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Sergio Vela Llausi, Maria Fumanal Quintana, Jacob Terence Blaskovits

Singlet fission (SF) has demonstrated significant promise for boosting the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of solar cells. Traditionally, SF is targeted as an intermolecular process; however, its dependence on crystal packing makes molecular design diffi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Recommender Systems for Healthy Behavior Change

Onur Yürüten

Sedentary lifestyles and bad eating habits influence the onset of many serious health problems. Healthy behavior change is an arduous task, and requires a careful planning. In this thesis, we propose that behavior recommenders can help their users achieve ...

EPFL2017

A Framework for Collaborative Curation of Neuroscientific Literature

Sean Lewis Hill, Elisabetta Iavarone, Christian O'Reilly

Large models of complex neuronal circuits require specifying numerous parameters, with values that often need to be extracted from the literature, a tedious and error-prone process. To help establishing shareable curated corpora of annotations, we have dev ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2017

A Map for Big Data Research in Digital Humanities

Frédéric Kaplan

This article is an attempt to represent Big Data research in digital humanities as a structured research field. A division in three concentric areas of study is presented. Challenges in the first circle – focusing on the processing and interpretations of l ...

2015

DiNoDB: Efficient Large-Scale Raw Data Analytics

Anastasia Ailamaki, Marko Vukolic, Ioannis Alagiannis, Erietta Liarou, Yongchao Tian

Modern big data workflows, found in e.g., machine learning use cases, often involve iterations of cycles of batch analytics and interactive analytics on temporary data. Whereas batch analytics solutions for large volumes of raw data are well established (e ...

2014

Adaptive Physical Design for Curated Archives

Anastasia Ailamaki, Debabrata Dash

We introduce AdaptPD, an automated physical design tool that improves database performance by continuously monitoring changes in the workload and adapting the physical design to suit the incoming workload. Current physical design tools are offline and requ ...

2009