This project is about modelling and visualizing maritime paths of ships from the XVIIIth Century. In this report, we explain the steps of how from a filemaker database containing historical information, we have extracted the data, created a model, stored the information in a postgresql database, computed and visualized the multiple paths from harbours to harbours along the French coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

Anderson, Paul, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, paul.anderson@epfl.ch

Choi, Byung-Geun, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, byung-geun.choi@epfl.ch

Procedural architecture is a growing area within the discipline of Digital Humanities and has many potential applications in terms of research, education, and media. Maïm et al. [1] developed a model of Pompeii with the goal of visualizing everyday life. Their model represents pedestrian interactions and includes a level of detail aspect, which is important because procedural architecture methods are still limited by computing power.

In the past 20 years, television storytelling has changed drastically. First we had traditional episodic and serial forms of television and then they turned into more complex narrative forms, changing our TV perception.  In our research project, we wanted to tackle this idea of narrative complexity in TV series. In the past years new techniques of directing and producing of motion pictures were introduced.

The purpose of this report is to summarize the steps undergone by now, creating an overview of the work done, results obtained on different stages, as well as preliminary conclusions and methodological concerns. It must be noted that the purpose of this project was to test certain digital methods of word identification, mapping and narrative complexity analysis on a modern television series.

Introduction

The EPFL Media Control Room project is concerned with classifying tweets that are related to and about EPFL as well as displaying or visualizing them in an interesting manner in order to get an idea of what EPFL-related events are happening or how EPFL is being discussed (in a positive or negative way for example).  The visualization of the tweets along with their respective classes was envisioned to be displayed in a media control room for further examination and analysis by the operators as well as for taking the appropriate actions.  

Since the beginning mankind has been interested in it's history although not always for the same reason: a "propaganda" tool, to not reproduce the errors of the past, to rediscover lost knowledges ...  This also the reason behind our project: trying to recover lost knowledge with the help of computational tools.

The Indus Valley civilization has been a well established community for hundreds of years yet today, it is impossible with our knowledge to decipher what they left behind.

Digital humanities have experienced an amazing boom in last several years. Some fields, which were parallel with digital humanities a couple of years ago, have become inter-sectional or even integrative with it. As a result, increasingly number of subjects are raised every year. And the coverage of digital humanities has stretched so far away that sometimes we want to figure out how large this scientific discipline is and what the most hottest topics in this area are.

The Kodak Instamatic was a brand of Instamatic cameras designed by Kodak and introduced to the market in 1963. The term Instamatic refers to the film loading process, which is quite simply to insert the film cartridge into the camera and it is ready to shoot[1]. Our focus in this paper is the classification and “genetic relationships” of all the Instamatic Cameras during 1963 to 1997.

Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the most prominent figures in the history of Western philosophy, left an enduring legacy behind. His challenging philosophical work had a profound impact on the thinking of twentieth century political leaders and intellectuals. For decades arduous scholars and interpreters (among them Michel Foucalt, George Bataille, Jacques Derrida and Leo Strauss) have been pondering over questions regarding Nietzsche’s extraordinary personality and grandiose controversial ideas.

Project Definition

The goal of the project is to create a converter for LaTeX documents to the EPUB/Mobipocket format with focus on mathematical formulas. The latest version of the EPUB format (version 3) includes support for MathML, but it is currently mostly unsupported by e-readers on the market (Kindle, Kobo, etc.). However, it is possible to display formulas using characters or to convert them to PNG images.