Historical and Biographical Research and Archives

Digital Archives and Study of Historical Towns

The basic aim of this work is to create a multimedia data-base (an electronic-graphical system containing dimensional, qualitative and graphical data) and to make data available on the Internet as their representation evolves.. The theme of the work is thus on the one hand the study of harbour towns and the identification of the system of historical architectures that represented the physical p...

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: metadiscourse in introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics research articles: exploring variation in frequency and type

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...

Image Analysis for Historical Japanese Book Archives

This paper describes methods of image analysis for historical Japanese book archives with a dominant focus on character segmentation. The segmentation methodology includes stain and smear removal, binarization, character line extraction, and character extraction by region labeling with integration and separation techniques. The experimental results show that the proposed method can segment all ...

Comparison between historical population archives and decentralized databases

Differences between large-scale historical population archives and small decentralized databases can be used to improve data quality and record connectedness in both types of databases. A parser is developed to account for differences in syntax and data representation models. A matching procedure is described to discover records from different databases referring to the same historical event. T...