Historical-institutional paths through archival documents (and more)

Protection of Archival Documents from Photochemical Eects

Purpose: ­The purpose of this paper is to highlight the destructive effects of light on archival documents/paper materials. ­The research aims to explain the mechanism of photochemical degradation and the damaging effect of light on paper. It also tells us about the measures to be adopted to control the deteriorating effects of light on paper step by step. Design/Methodology/Approach: Th­e res...

Representation and Visualization of Urban Fabric through Historical Documents

Documents serve an important role in understanding change in urban fabric. The available multidimensional (spatial, temporal and thematic) information in these documents narrate not only the various features of the elements of the urban fabric but also notifies their changes during time. CityGML standard is used to spatially and temporally represent the city objects. But it misses features to r...

Discovering the insulin documents: an archival adventure.

Flexible Computer Assisted Transcription of Historical Documents Through Subword Spotting

In the absence of accurate handwriting recognition for historical documents, computer assisted transcription (CAT) methods move into the spotlight. We explore some of the weaknesses of current CAT systems and propose a CAT system which relies on subword spotting that overcomes most of these. The system is ideal crowdsourcing transcription to mobile users.

Enabling the Archival Storage of Signed Documents

Documents in digital formats are increasingly becoming a common form of expression for anything from rants and opinions to transaction records and contracts. Archiving such documents for the long term, particularly when their only form is digital, can be very important. Sadly, the principal digital expression of an author’s intent, the digital signature, is not fit for long-term archives of doc...