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SUMMARY:The Venice Time Machine
DTSTART:20151117T121500
DTEND:20151117T130000
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Frédéric Kaplan\, Digital Humanities Lab (DHLAB)\nAbstrac
 t :\nThe Venice Time Machine is an international scientific programme laun
 ched by the EPFL and the University Ca’Foscari of Venice with the genero
 us support of the Fondation Lombard Odier. It aims at building a multidime
 nsional model of Venice and its evolution covering a period of more than 1
 000 years. The project ambitions to reconstruct a large open access databa
 se that could be used for research and education. Thanks to a parternship 
 with the Archivio di Stato in Venice\, kilometers of archives are currentl
 y digitized\, transcribed and indexed setting the base of the largest data
 base ever created on Venetian documents. The State Archives of Venice cont
 ain a massive amount of hand-written documentation in languages evolving f
 rom medieval times to the 20th century. An estimated 80 km of shelves are 
 filled with over a thousand years of administrative documents\, from birth
  registrations\, death certificates and tax statements\, all the way to ma
 ps and urban planning designs. These documents are often very delicate and
  are occasionally in a fragile state of conservation.\nIn complementary to
  these primary sources\, the content of thousands of monographies have bee
 n indexed and made searchable.\nThe documents digitised in the Venice Time
  Machine programme are intricately interweaved\, telling a much richer sto
 ry when they are cross-referenced. By combining this mass of information\,
  it is possible to reconstruct large segments of the city’s past: comple
 te biographies\, political dynamics\, or even the appearance of buildings 
 and entire neighborhoods. The information extracted from the primary and s
 econdary sources are organized in a semantic graph of linked data and unfo
 lded in space and time in an historical geographical information system. T
 he resulting platform can serve for both research and education. About a h
 undred researchers and students collaborate already on this programme. A d
 octoral school is organised every year in Venice and several bachelor and 
 master courses currently use the data produced in the context of the Venic
 e Time Machine. Through all these initiatives\, the Venice Time Machine ex
 plores how “big data of the past” can change research and education in
  historical sciences\, hopefully paving the way towards a general methodol
 ogy that could be applied to many other cities and archives. \nMore infor
 mation : http://vtm.epfl.chShort biography:\nProf Frederic Kaplan holds th
 e Digital Humanities Chair at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EP
 FL) and directs the EPFL Digital Humanities Laboratory (DHLAB). He conduct
 s research projects combining archive digitisation\, information modelling
  and museographic design and working recently with the Archivio di Stato\,
  the fondation Cini\, the Marciana in Venice\, the Bibliothèque Nationale
  de France\, the Bibliothèque Nationale Suisse\, the Bodmer Foundation\, 
 the Musée de l’Elysée. He also participated to exhibitions in several 
 museums including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Ar
 t in New York.\nFrederic Kaplan published more than a hundred scientific p
 apers and 6 books. He is the chief editor of Frontiers in Digital Humaniti
 es and co-directs the Digital Humanities book collection at EPFL Press. He
  created the first Digital Humanities Master course in Switzerland and is 
 now taking an active role for shaping a complete new curriculum at EPFL. H
 e was the co-local organizer of the Digital Humanities 2014 conference in 
 Lausanne\, the largest scientific meeting ever conducted in this domain.
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