Publications related to Archive

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are sedimented in the form of drafts, protocols of rejected hypotheses and failed experiments, obsolete instruments, outdated visualizations and other residues.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 ...

EPFL2024

Datafication of audiovisual archives: from practice mapping to a thinking model

Yuchen Yang

Purpose Recent archiving and curatorial practices took advantage of the advancement in digital technologies, creating immersive and interactive experiences to emphasize the plurality of memory materials, encourage personalized sense-making and extract, man ...

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2024

Echoing Swiss Coloniality. Land, Archive and Visuality between Brazil and Switzerland

Denise Bertschi

Informed by longstanding artistic practice, this doctoral thesis approaches entanglements of Swiss coloniality in Brazil and Switzerland under the lens of land, archive, and visuality. The enduring legacies of imperial capitalism in the former Colonia Leop ...

EPFL2024

Method for Design Materialization (MDM) for artists, educators and archivists: an introduction

This contribution argues for the potential of Barr, Khaled and Lessard’s Method for Design Materialization (MDM) as a research through design tool that is specifically suited for new media preservation. Building moreover from the ISEA first and second Summ ...

2023

From 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 Group2023

When the industry built the city: business archives, memory and community in a contemporary company town

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

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 Imprint2023

Impromptu Conservation – Unveiling Huế's Mnemonic Sites: Heritagization, (de)Colonization, and Place-making

Phi Nguyen Yen

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 ...

EPFL2023

Encoding and Decoding Narratives: Datafication and Alternative Access Models for Audiovisual Archives

Yuchen Yang

Situated in the intersection of audiovisual archives, computational methods, and immersive interactions, this work probes the increasingly important accessibility issues from a two-fold approach. Firstly, the work proposes an ontological data model to hand ...

ACM2023

Redefining Access to Large Audiovisual Archives through Embodied Experiences in Immersive Environments: Creativity & Cognition 2022 - Graduate Student Symposium

Giacomo Alliata

Audiovisual archives are the mnemonic archives of the 21st century, with important cultural institutions increasingly digitizing their video collections. However, these remain mostly inaccessible, due to the sheer amount of content combined with the lack o ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2022

A Posthumous Rivalry: On Borelli and Viviani's Relationship between the Accademia del Cimento and en Eighteenth-Century Controversy

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Between around 1656 and the late 1660s, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli and Vincenzio Viviani, self-proclaimed last disciple of Galileo, collaborated on a host of math- ematical, physico-mathematical, and experimental problems, notably within the Acca- demia del ...

2022

From Marshall Plan to “Hilton in the wild”: The Transnational History of a Cooperative Housing Block in Esat, Ankara

Sila Karatas

This paper concerns the planning, design, and construction history of a postwar multifamily housing block in Ankara, Turkey, viewed from the perspective of the transnational and local networks behind its realization. Built by the Mintrak Building Cooperati ...

2022

Quand les artistes font forme en habitant ensemble. Usages, présences, imaginaires

Mathilde Coline Chénin

Taking root within a historical and transversal perspective of communities of artists at work, and of the relationship that they nourish with the places that host their creative activity, the present research intends to bring to light the grammars of "the ...

EPFL2022

reference data for "A Critical Comparison of Annual Glare Simulation Methods"

Jan Wienold, Stephen William Wasilewski

Scene and reference results files for: "A Critical Comparison of Annual Glare Simulation Methods" Stephen Wasilewski, Jan Wienold, Marilyne Andersen 2022 Buildsim Nordic, Copenhagen Contents: 01-06*.tar.gz: reference simulation image archives, one ...

Zenodo2022

The Replica Project: Co-Designing a Discovery Engine for Digital Art History

Isabella Di Lenardo

This article explains how the Replica project is a particular case of different professionals coming together to achieve the digitization of a historical photographic archive, intersecting complementary knowledge specific to normally unconnected communitie ...

2022

Computational Archives for Experimental Museology

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Lillian Hibberd

This article addresses the potential for computational practises within archival and museological domains by charting a positional shift occurring in digital archives; from working with an object orientation and containment – to computing with a dimension ...

2021

Archiving the Leftovers of Science: Metadata and Histories of Scientific Institutions

Alina Volynskaya

In this article, I focus on digital scientific archives which are made up of the leftovers of science, such as drafts, obsolete instruments, photographs, documentation, etc. The artifacts exhibited in such collections were neither meant to be representatio ...

2021

Inventory of Problems: The Genesis of the Rotterdam Kunsthal by OMA/Rem Koolhaas, 1987-1992

Tibor Bonaventura Pataky

The Kunsthal in Rotterdam is a key work in the oeuvre of OMA/Rem Koolhaas that marks the threshold between the firmâ s architectural production of the decades before and after 1990. This doctoral thesis aims at a deeper and comprehensive understanding of ...

EPFL2021

Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou: Monument National e Live Centre of Information. Cronache di idea, progetto e fabbricazione, 1968-1977

Boris Hamzeian

The Centre Beaubourg of Paris, now known as the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, conceived by Piano+Rogers Architects and Ove Arup & Partners, between 1971 and 1977, represents one of the rare synthesis of the architectural, constructi ...

EPFL2021

Accessing, Representing, and Transmitting Cultural Heritage through Digital Archives: challenges and opportunities

Yumeng Hou

Digitization has been recognized as effective means to safeguard cultural heritage,simultaneously producing a significant body of data resources within the GLAM sector. Digital curatorial innovations in the museums have created tools to enhance accessibili ...

2021

Aerolysin nanopores decode digital information stored in tailored macromolecular analytes

Aleksandra Radenovic, Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Lucien Fabrice Krapp, Nuria Cirauqui Diaz

Digital data storage is a growing need for our society and finding alternative solutions than those based on silicon or magnetic tapes is a challenge in the era of “big data.” The recent development of polymers that can store information at the molecular l ...

2020