Digital Archives for Nuclear Emulsion Data

Digital Archives as Big Data

Digital archives contribute to Big Data. Combining social network analysis, coincidence analysis, data reduction, and visual analytics leads to better characterize topics over time, publishers ́ main themes and best authors of all times, according to the British newspaper The Guardian and from the 3 million records of the British National bibliography.

XML Retrieval for Digital Archives

Semantic Digital Archives Preface

Current digital preservation is strongly biased towards data objects: digital files of document-style objects, or encapsulated and largely self-contained objects. To provide authenticity and provenance information, comprehensive metadata models are deployed to document information on an object’s context. Yet, we claim that simply documenting an objects context may not be sufficient to ensure pr...

Digital Video Archives

In this paper we discuss the role that a video data base may play in a digital video archive and some of the challenges that video data bases are facing Prob lems related to large scale storage and delivery of video data are brie y discussed while a modelling and query ing aspecs are treated more thoroughly We propose a generic data model that captures video data struc tures and that supports t...

Extending the Digital Archives of Italian Psychology with Semantic Data

ASPI is a project that aims at creating a digital library of historical documents of Italian Psychology and extending it with semantic data. The extension makes it possible to retrieve archival documents not only on the basis of archival metadata, but also according to the connections the documents have with specific activities of researchers, groups and institutions, as well as with more gener...