Isabella Di Lenardo
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Expertise
Art History; Digital Art History; Digital Humanities; Urban History; Geographic Information Systems ; Modelling and Urban Reconstruction
Isabella di Lenardo is a scientific researcher and lecturer with experience in the fields of Art History and Archaeology, Digital Humanities, and Digital Urban History.
Her training began with archaeology and then moved to Modern Art History, particularly the Venetian context between 1400 and 1800. Her interest primarily lies in the European circulation of artworks and figurative patterns between 1500 and 1650.
She holds a Ph.D in Theories and Art History. Her doctoral dissertation in 2013 provided insightful analysis into the artistic, social, and economic forces driving the trade and circulation of art between key Italian centers and the Flemish cultural area.
Since 2012 she conducted studies on urban history applying digital methodologies, particularly geographic information systems, collaborating on pioneering projects in this field such as Visualizing Venice held by the University Institute of Architecture in Venice, the University of Padua, and Duke University.
In 2014 she joined the Digital Humanities Laboratory at EPFL as Scientist. She was involved in several projects on urban reconstruction and visual analysis of artworks. She led the Replica project in collaboration with the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice, which involved digitizing the historical photo library and creating a search engine for visual similarity and visual genealogy between images. In this context she coordinated teams of researchers, students, professionals and curators to carry the project.
Between 2018 and 2020, she was Head of projet in Paris holding the role of Principal Investigator National Institute of Art History in Paris initiating and leading the "Richelieu District" urban reconstruction project.
She is Co.PI in the project, SNFS, Parcels of Venice aimed at reconstructing the informational and morphological evolution of urban property in Venice between 1700 and 1808. In this project, thousands of land records were extracted and analyzed to allow for the densification of information related to the owners and functions of the urban before and after the fall of the Ancien Regime in Venice. An exploration and research interface is planned between 2024 and 2025.
Starting in 2016, she was among the initiators of the Time Machine: Big Data of the Past for the Future of Europe project. The aim of the project was that Time Machine design and implement advanced new digitization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to mine Europe's vast cultural heritage, providing fair and free access to information that will support future scientific and technological developments in Europe. From the European Time Machine project originated the Time Machine Organization in which Isabella di Lenardo is coordinator of Local Time Machines on a European scale.
Over the years she has coordinated research teams with diverse profiles: researchers, scholars, public institutions, private foundations, and companies. She is very comfortable in international and interdisciplinary working environments, and regularly acts as an intermediary between computer scientists, humanities scholars, engineers, and representatives of cultural institutions.
She has been teaching ex cathedra courses in Urban History since 2010, at EPFL since 2014 in Digital Urban History and also Digital Art History at other universities on an international scale.
Her training began with archaeology and then moved to Modern Art History, particularly the Venetian context between 1400 and 1800. Her interest primarily lies in the European circulation of artworks and figurative patterns between 1500 and 1650.
She holds a Ph.D in Theories and Art History. Her doctoral dissertation in 2013 provided insightful analysis into the artistic, social, and economic forces driving the trade and circulation of art between key Italian centers and the Flemish cultural area.
Since 2012 she conducted studies on urban history applying digital methodologies, particularly geographic information systems, collaborating on pioneering projects in this field such as Visualizing Venice held by the University Institute of Architecture in Venice, the University of Padua, and Duke University.
In 2014 she joined the Digital Humanities Laboratory at EPFL as Scientist. She was involved in several projects on urban reconstruction and visual analysis of artworks. She led the Replica project in collaboration with the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice, which involved digitizing the historical photo library and creating a search engine for visual similarity and visual genealogy between images. In this context she coordinated teams of researchers, students, professionals and curators to carry the project.
Between 2018 and 2020, she was Head of projet in Paris holding the role of Principal Investigator National Institute of Art History in Paris initiating and leading the "Richelieu District" urban reconstruction project.
She is Co.PI in the project, SNFS, Parcels of Venice aimed at reconstructing the informational and morphological evolution of urban property in Venice between 1700 and 1808. In this project, thousands of land records were extracted and analyzed to allow for the densification of information related to the owners and functions of the urban before and after the fall of the Ancien Regime in Venice. An exploration and research interface is planned between 2024 and 2025.
Starting in 2016, she was among the initiators of the Time Machine: Big Data of the Past for the Future of Europe project. The aim of the project was that Time Machine design and implement advanced new digitization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to mine Europe's vast cultural heritage, providing fair and free access to information that will support future scientific and technological developments in Europe. From the European Time Machine project originated the Time Machine Organization in which Isabella di Lenardo is coordinator of Local Time Machines on a European scale.
Over the years she has coordinated research teams with diverse profiles: researchers, scholars, public institutions, private foundations, and companies. She is very comfortable in international and interdisciplinary working environments, and regularly acts as an intermediary between computer scientists, humanities scholars, engineers, and representatives of cultural institutions.
She has been teaching ex cathedra courses in Urban History since 2010, at EPFL since 2014 in Digital Urban History and also Digital Art History at other universities on an international scale.
Formation
Histoire Urbaine ; Histoire de l'Art ; Histoire du collectionnisme
|2009 – 2013 SSAV Scuola Superiore di Studi avanzati in Venezia (Venice) || IUAV Istituto Universitario di Architettura (Venice) ||University Ca' Foscari, scuola interateneo in Storia delle Arti (Venice)
Histoire de l'Art Moderne
|2008 – 2008 University Ca' Foscari (Venice)
Fellow
| Histoire de l'Art et du Collectionnisme2010 – 2011 Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut (NIKI)(Florence)
Expériences professionnelles
Project Leader, Post Doc
Post Doc. Researcher
Faculty
Post Doc. Researcher
Post Doc. Researcher
Recherche
Domaines de recherche actuels
Histoire urbaine numérique, reconstruction 4D et cartographie computationnelle :
développement de chaînes de traitement intégrées pour la géoréférenciation et l’alignement de sources cadastrales et cartographiques, l’HTR/OCR et l’extraction de toponymes, la segmentation de cartes et le liage sémantique permettant d’ingérer des cartes historiques multilayer dans des modèles HGIS/4D. Ces pipelines rendent possible un suivi systématique des transformations urbaines dans le temps, facilitent des analyses à l’échelle de la parcelle comme de la ville, et produisent des jeux de données interopérables et documentés en termes de provenance pour la recherche historique comparative.
développement de chaînes de traitement intégrées pour la géoréférenciation et l’alignement de sources cadastrales et cartographiques, l’HTR/OCR et l’extraction de toponymes, la segmentation de cartes et le liage sémantique permettant d’ingérer des cartes historiques multilayer dans des modèles HGIS/4D. Ces pipelines rendent possible un suivi systématique des transformations urbaines dans le temps, facilitent des analyses à l’échelle de la parcelle comme de la ville, et produisent des jeux de données interopérables et documentés en termes de provenance pour la recherche historique comparative.
Enrichissement computationnel du patrimoine culturel :
Je développe des pipelines algorithmiques (HTR/OCR, annotation sémantique, photogrammétrie 3D et modèles de similarité visuelle) qui transforment les sources archivistiques primaires en objets de recherche interopérables et traçables. Ces enrichissements numériques augmentent la densité interprétative, permettent des interrogations multilayer, des analyses comparatives à grande échelle et une interopérabilité fondée sur les principes du Linked Open Data, tout en soutenant une gestion éthique, une accessibilité élargie et une curation participative des ressources patrimoniales.
Je développe des pipelines algorithmiques (HTR/OCR, annotation sémantique, photogrammétrie 3D et modèles de similarité visuelle) qui transforment les sources archivistiques primaires en objets de recherche interopérables et traçables. Ces enrichissements numériques augmentent la densité interprétative, permettent des interrogations multilayer, des analyses comparatives à grande échelle et une interopérabilité fondée sur les principes du Linked Open Data, tout en soutenant une gestion éthique, une accessibilité élargie et une curation participative des ressources patrimoniales.
Histoire de l’art numérique et étude computationnelle de la circulation des images :
approches quantitatives et computationnelles appliquées à de vastes corpus iconographiques et archivistiques pour cartographier les réseaux d’acteurs (commanditaires, marchands, collectionneurs, ateliers) et retracer la diffusion géo-temporelle des formes visuelles. En mobilisant des modèles de similarité d’images, l’analyse de réseaux, le liage prosopographique et la cartographie spatio-temporelle, cet axe reconceptualise les dynamiques centre/périphérie et met en lumière des agents et trajectoires de transmission sous-étudiés, tout en articulant lecture visuelle fine et détection de motifs à grande échelle, reproductible et cumulative.
approches quantitatives et computationnelles appliquées à de vastes corpus iconographiques et archivistiques pour cartographier les réseaux d’acteurs (commanditaires, marchands, collectionneurs, ateliers) et retracer la diffusion géo-temporelle des formes visuelles. En mobilisant des modèles de similarité d’images, l’analyse de réseaux, le liage prosopographique et la cartographie spatio-temporelle, cet axe reconceptualise les dynamiques centre/périphérie et met en lumière des agents et trajectoires de transmission sous-étudiés, tout en articulant lecture visuelle fine et détection de motifs à grande échelle, reproductible et cumulative.
Conferences
Invited Keynote
2025
Cities, sources, and data: Urban History in the age of AI
100 Years of the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Sep 4 -5.
2020
Paintings by AI. Large Scale search for Visual Similarities
La mesure des images : approches computationnelles en histoire et théorie des arts”, DHNord 2020 (on line) https://www.meshs.fr/page/dhnord2020fr, November 2020
2019
Chercher dans les grands corpus d’images à travers l’Intelligence Artificielle : défis et résultats”
Intelligence artificielle et institutions patrimoniales : enjeux, défis et opportunités, Journée de l’Association des diplômés et des étudiants de master de l’École nationale des chartes (Ademec), École nationale des Chartes et Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Sep. 2019
http://www.chartes.psl.eu/fr/intelligence-artificielle-institutions-patrimoniales, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndT3NLPeQFM
Les Musées dans l’ère des répliques authentiques et des Mondes Miroirs
Faut-il vider les Bibliotheques et les Musées?, Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres
et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique avec le parrainage du Collège de France, (with Frèdéric Kaplan) Bruxelles, Oct. 2019 https://lacademie.tv/conferences/les-musees-dans-l-ere-des-repliques-authentiques-et-des-mondes-miroirs
et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique avec le parrainage du Collège de France, (with Frèdéric Kaplan) Bruxelles, Oct. 2019 https://lacademie.tv/conferences/les-musees-dans-l-ere-des-repliques-authentiques-et-des-mondes-miroirs
Repeupler le Quartier Richelieu (1839-1922)
Semaine académique du partenariat entre l’Université de WUDA et École nationale des chartes (Enc), Paris, Octobre 2019
Lausanne Time Machine Project
Launch of the Center in Digital Humanities EPFL and UNIL, Lausanne, Octobre 2019
The Venice Time Machine Project: Digitising Heritage in Time and Space
Warburg Institute - London, Jan. 2019, (with Frédéric Kaplan)
Venice Time Machine Project, Modelling the Past
Journées de la recherche de l'IGN (Institut National de l’Information Geographique et Forestière), Cité Descartes, Marne la Vallée, Apr. 2019 – Paris, Apr. 2019, (with Frédéric Kaplan), http://recherche.ign.fr/jr/jr19/resumes/DiLenardo.pdf
2017
The Venice Time Machine
European Union and members of the European Archives Group in Malta (EBNA Meeting), Malta, Apr. 2017, (with Frédéric Kaplan)
2016
European circulation of people, goods and patterns: The Venice Time Machine methodology” CREATE Conference, An e-humanities perspective –University of Amsterdam, Oct. 2016, (with Frédéric Kaplan)
2015
La numérisation massive des oeuvres d’art et ses conséquences sur l’histoire de l’art : REPLICA project”
Cloud Collections. Aspects juridiques, scientifiques et techniques de la numérisation de l’art Neuchâtel, November 2015
Plenary speeches
2025
Theory and Practice of Historical Data Versioning
DigiHistCH24, curated by Joelle Prunel, Burkhardt, Baudry, Basel, Switzerland,
Feb. 11. 2025
Revealing the Structure of Land Ownership through the Automatic
Vectorisation of Swiss Cadastral Plans
DigiHistCH24, curated by Joelle Prunel, Burkhardt, Baudry, Basel, Switzerland,
Feb. 11. 2025 (with Rémi Petitpierre)
Information Indexing for Time Machine
Build your 4D Time Machine Atlas workshop series
Time Machine Organisation (online). Role: workshop presentation. (Organised by Time Machine Organisation).
2024
The hidden order in the grammar of artistic attribution
Annual Conference of the Digital Humanities Alliance (ADHO)2024, Washington, DC, USA, 6–10 August 2024.
Cartographic Stemmatology: Segmenting Local Deformation Similarities in Historical Maps of Jerusalem
18th ICA Conference on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, Bologna, Italy, Oct. 23 2024 (with Beatrice Vaienti and Frédéric Kaplan)
Reinvigorating thematic historical maps – Insights into the Parcels of Venice project
18th ICA Conference on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, Bologna, Italy, Oct. 23 2024 (with Raimund Shnurer)
A computational eye for an architectural history of Venetian facades
CIHA World Congress, Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art, — Materiality in History of Architecture and Urban Planning: evolutions of techniques, perceptions and analyses, Lyon, France, 26 June 2024 (with Paul Guhennec)
2023
Machine Reading for Demographic Time Series: 1805–1898 Lausanne Records
5th Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography — The Challenge of Comparing Across Space and Time, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Aug. 30 – Oct. 2, 2023 (with Rémi Petitpierre and Lucas Rappo)
The Skin of Venice: Automatic Facade Extraction from Point Clouds
Annual Conference of the Digital Humanities Alliance (ADHO) 2023, Graz, Austria, June 2024 (with Paul Guhennec)
Ce que les machines ont vu et nous ne savons pas encore
Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art 12eme édition, Ce que l’oeil numérique fait aux images, en honneur de l’apparition du volume, Société et Représentations, Nᵒ 55, Château de Fontainebleau, Jun. 2023
Controversial cities. A 4D versioned model for the convergence of historical information
Workshop on Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital
Libraries, (UHDL) 2023, (Controversial Cities session), Munich, 27–29 March 2023
A data structure for scientific models of historical cities: extending the CityJSON format
6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, Seattle, WA, USA, (1 Nov 2022)
New Approaches to Historical Spatial Data
EPFL / Digital Humanities Laboratory seminar series (various internal presentations). Role: invited seminar / internal talk. (EPFL).
2019
Repopulating Paris: massive extraction of 4 Million addresses from city directories between 1839 and 1922
Annual Conference of the Digital Humanities Alliance (ADHO), Utrecht, July 2019 (with Albane Descombes) https://dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.34894/MNF5VQ
A Deep Learning Approach to cadastral computing
Annual Conference of the Digital Humanities Alliance (ADHO), Utrecht, July 2019 (with Sophia Ares Oliveira)
Repopulating Paris. 4 Million of addresses (1839-1922)
Symposium in collaboration with Getty Research Institute Los Angeles, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), Paris, (June 2019)
Richelieu. Histoire du quartier
Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA) Paris, Oct. 2018
2018
The Digital Cadastre of Venice in 1808
European Association of Urban History (EAUH) – Rome, Sep. 2018 (with Bastien Tourenc), https://eauh2018.ccmgs.it/users/index.php?pagename=cms&name=sessiontracks&trackname=new-technologies-and-methods-for-historical-cadastral-studies
2017
Le projet de la Time Machine Européenne
Bibliothèque Nationale de France – Atelier Corpus Data BNF – Paris, Nov. 2017, Invited Speaker, https://bnf.hypotheses.org/2299
The Venice Time Machine Project
German Center for Art History - Paris Mai. 2017, Invited Speaker
Web interfaces for 4D Urban Model
Institut National de l’Information Géographique et Forestière (IGN)– Paris, June 2017, (with Frédéric Kaplan), Invited Speaker
Optimized scripting in Massive Open Online Courses
Dariah Teach, Université de Lausanne - Lausanne, Mar. 2017, (with Frédéric Kaplan), Invited Speaker
2016
European circulation of people, goods and patterns: The Venice Time Machine methodology
CREATE, An e-humanities perspective – Amsterdam, Oct. 2016, (with Frédéric Kaplan)
Mapping the Flow of Paintings in the Renaissance
Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Boston, Mar. 2016
2015
Venice Time Machine: Recreating the density of the past
Annual Conference of the Digital Humanities Alliance (ADHO) – Sydney, Jun. 2015, (with Frédéric Kaplan)
La numérisation massive des oeuvres d’art et ses conséquences sur l’histoire de l’art : REPLICA project
Cloud Collections. Aspects juridiques, scientifiques et techniques de la numérisation de l’art Neuchâtel, March 2015
2014
Trading knowledge across Europe: database analysis networks (1550-1650)
Annual meeting conference of Renaissance Society of America (RSA) – Berlin, March 2014
2013
Built cities, Designed cities, Virtual cities : The museum of the city
Conference on Cultural Heritage, “Can the European cities be considered as a Cultural Heritage ? Per una storia della città europea come Cultural Heritage” – Politecnico di Torino, Turin, June 2013
2012
Patron, Collector and Agent: On Carlo Helman and his Network Role in the Production, Circulation and Consumption of Pictures between Antwerp and Venice, ca. 1600
Symposium at Kasteel Well (Nederland), for the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek: Artists on the Move: Migrating artists from the Low Countries, 1400-1750, Well-Limbourg (The Netherlands), December 2012
Dalla scala urbana all’allestimento : l’insula delle Gallerie dell’Accademia
“Digital Urban History – La storia della città (raccontata) all’epoca della rivoluzione informatica”, Politecnico di Turin, March 2012
2011
L’oratorio dei tedeschi. Artisti oltramontani nella chiesa di San Bartolomeo
La chiesa di San Bartolomeo e la comunità tedesca, Studium Generale Marcianum; Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani (Deutsche Studienzentrum in Venedig) – Venice, November 2011
Mercanti, collezionisti, agenti. Il ruolo delle nationi fiamenga e todesca nella nascita e diffusione dei Generi pittorici
International conference for Foundation Ermitage Italia (FEI): Alle origini dei Generi Pittorici fra l’Italia e l’Europa attorno al 1600 – Ferrara, September 2011
Cities of Fire”. Iconography, Fortune and the Circulation of Fire Paintings
Flanders and Italy in the XVI Century”. V Convegno AISU, Fuori dall’ordinario: la città di fronte a catastrofi ed eventi eccezionali, Rome, September 2011
Firenze e Venezia, convergenze: il network nederlandese e i rapporti con il collezionismo mediceo
Lesson for the Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell’Arte di Firenze/ Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut – Florence, June 2011
2010
The Oltramontani Network in Venice: Hans von Aachen in context
Conference to the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic: Hans von Aachen and new research in the transfer of artistic ideas into Central Europe – Prague, September 2010
Exploring the Natione fiamenga in Venice. The influence of this newly created Establishment and its impact on pictorial exchanges: The Bassano case
Annual meeting conference of Renaissance Society of America (RSA) – Venice April 2010
Chair session
2019
Organizer Richelieu. Histoire du quartier : état des lieux
Series of lectures as part of the research program “History of the Richelieu District,” National Institute of Art History (INHA)
Steffan Hogg, La documentation visuelle de mon livre ». Walter Benjamin et ses recherches iconographiques dans le Cabinet des Estampes pour le Livre des passages, German Center for Art History, Paris, Mai 2019
Corinne Le Bitouzé (BnF) : Les collections de mode du département des Estampes et de la photographie de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Corinne Le Bitouzé, Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), site Richelieu, 24 mai 2019
Néguine Mathieux (Musée du Louvre) : De l’archéologie aux archives : des sources pour un quartier disparu, le quartier du Louvre, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), April 2019
Olivier Poncet (École nationale des chartes) : Wall Street sur Seine ? L’attraction de la finance au quartier Richelieu (XVIIe-XIXe siècle), Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), April 2019
Conference Organizer Time Machine Conference”, EPFL, Lausanne Oct. 2018
Session organizer / chair New Technologies and Methods for Historical Cadastral Studies (1500-1950)
European Association of Urban History (EAUH ) – Rome, September 2018 (with Frédéric Kaplan)
2016
Session organizer / chair Images on the Move: The Weaving of Circulations and Transfers during the Renaissance through Digital Analysis
Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) – Boston, March 2016
2015
Session organizer / chair Le porte dopo le porte. Varchi, barriere, caselli daziari: le chiavi dell'accesso e dell'approvvigionamento urbano
European Association of Urban History (EAUH ) – Padova, September 2015 (with Vittorio Zucconi)
2013
Session organizer / chair The ephemeral city : invention, rhetoric and counterfeiting (XV-XVIII centuries)
Associazione italiana storia urbana (AISU), Visibile invisibile, percepire la città tra descrizioni e omissioni – Catania, September 2013
2011
Conference Organizer La chiesa di San Bartolomeo e la comunità tedesca, Studium Generale Marcianum; Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani (Deutsche Studienzentrum in Venedig) – Venice, November 2011 (With Gianmario Guidarelli and Natalino Bonazza)
Parcels of Venice
FNS GRANT_NUMBER: 185060
The Parcels of Venice project created one of the most comprehensive geohistorical computational model of city of Venice by extracting and aligning cadastral data, with a diachronic model of the city and its population. Built on a robust “informational skeleton” of 19th cadastral sources, the project integrated additional datasets from the 16th to the 18th centuries, as well as a medieval Venice dataset.
Two public platforms were developed: The Time Atlas (https://timeatlas.eu/), for the general public to connect places with archival documents, and a Visual Analytics Dashboard for researchers to explore thematic maps, analyze property distribution, ownership patterns, and institutional change, and test historical hypotheses. The project also introduced key processing pipelines for cadastral maps and registers, enabling both Venice-specific and cross-national applications.
The resulting datasets, covering cadastral surveys from 1582 to 1808, land registers, ownership records, commercial directories, and historical toponyms, are available on parcelsofvenice.epfl.ch and timeatlas.eu, with open access on Zenodo planned for 2025. Through workshops and community-building initiatives, the project has laid the foundation for a growing network of scholars, heritage institutions, and digital humanists using its methods and data to explore historical urban morphology at unprecedented scale and detail.
The Parcels of Venice project created one of the most comprehensive geohistorical computational model of city of Venice by extracting and aligning cadastral data, with a diachronic model of the city and its population. Built on a robust “informational skeleton” of 19th cadastral sources, the project integrated additional datasets from the 16th to the 18th centuries, as well as a medieval Venice dataset.
Two public platforms were developed: The Time Atlas (https://timeatlas.eu/), for the general public to connect places with archival documents, and a Visual Analytics Dashboard for researchers to explore thematic maps, analyze property distribution, ownership patterns, and institutional change, and test historical hypotheses. The project also introduced key processing pipelines for cadastral maps and registers, enabling both Venice-specific and cross-national applications.
The resulting datasets, covering cadastral surveys from 1582 to 1808, land registers, ownership records, commercial directories, and historical toponyms, are available on parcelsofvenice.epfl.ch and timeatlas.eu, with open access on Zenodo planned for 2025. Through workshops and community-building initiatives, the project has laid the foundation for a growing network of scholars, heritage institutions, and digital humanists using its methods and data to explore historical urban morphology at unprecedented scale and detail.
Enseignement et PhD
A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de
Benoît Laurent Auguste Seguin, Paul Guhennec, Beatrice Vaienti, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre
Cours
AI for urban history
URB-409
Ce cours explore l'usage de l'IA et des LLM pour analyser des donnees urbaines historiques. Les etudiant·e·s etudient l'evolution des villes (1700-now) via des projets melant visualisation web et livret imprime.
Histoire urbaine digitale: Lausanne Time Machine I
HUM-450
Ce cours fait partie d'une série de cours interdisciplinaires et collaboratifs ouverts aux étudiants de l'UNIL et de l'EPFL. Il se concentre sur l'histoire urbaine à travers l'application de méthodes informatiques et le développement d'un projet numérique en groupe.
Histoire urbaine digitale: Lausanne Time Machine II
HUM-454
Ce cours fait partie d'une série de cours interdisciplinaires et collaboratifs ouverts aux étudiants de l'UNIL et de l'EPFL. Il se concentre sur l'histoire urbaine à travers l'application de méthodes informatiques et le développement d'un projet numérique en groupe.
Digital Humanities
The Digital Humanities course provides a comprehensive theoretical foundation in digital humanities while also offering a hands-on approach to digital prosopography.
Students will learn to transform biographical narratives, traced across time and space, into digital data. The primary objective is for participants to create wiki-based sources by piecing together biographical profiles of individuals who, though mentioned in historical records like newspapers, lack an online presence. The curriculum covers essential skills such as wiki syntax, person identification, Ngram analysis, and digital cartography. Through this course, students will uncover the 'dark matter' of history—those personalities referenced in historical documents but absent from the digital realm. This exploration emphasizes the importance of digitizing historical data, a key process for expanding and refining our collective understanding of history.
Students will learn to transform biographical narratives, traced across time and space, into digital data. The primary objective is for participants to create wiki-based sources by piecing together biographical profiles of individuals who, though mentioned in historical records like newspapers, lack an online presence. The curriculum covers essential skills such as wiki syntax, person identification, Ngram analysis, and digital cartography. Through this course, students will uncover the 'dark matter' of history—those personalities referenced in historical documents but absent from the digital realm. This exploration emphasizes the importance of digitizing historical data, a key process for expanding and refining our collective understanding of history.
AI for urban history
AI for Urban History, URB 409, course explores how AI and LLMs can be used to analyze historical urban data. Students study city evolution (1700-now) through hands-on projects, producing a web interface and a visual booklet based on sources like maps, directories, and cadastral records.
Histoire Urbaine Digitale
The Digital Urban History course is part of a new range of interdisciplinary and collaborative courses open to UNIL and EPFL students.
This course aims to develop interdisciplinary skills by combining the fields of expertise of history and digital studies.
It mainly focuses on theoretical and practical learning of digital methods applied to the analysis of past cities.
The course explores the digitization of historical cartography and information modeling of historical data concerning the city.
The use and extraction of cadastral, demographic, and iconographic sources but also various sources that tell the story from other perspectives such as historical press, trade almanacs, and more.
The course has a theoretical part in which various case studies are analyzed across Europe.
Students work on data extracted from ongoing urban analysis projects.
Since 2020 they develop projects on Lausanne and the surrounding area. The site is analyzed in its evolution over time under multiple aspects: the morphological evolution of the city, population history, cultural heritage history, aspects related to uninhabited space and ecology, textual sources such as the press or some literary sources. All the projects are published online.
This course aims to develop interdisciplinary skills by combining the fields of expertise of history and digital studies.
It mainly focuses on theoretical and practical learning of digital methods applied to the analysis of past cities.
The course explores the digitization of historical cartography and information modeling of historical data concerning the city.
The use and extraction of cadastral, demographic, and iconographic sources but also various sources that tell the story from other perspectives such as historical press, trade almanacs, and more.
The course has a theoretical part in which various case studies are analyzed across Europe.
Students work on data extracted from ongoing urban analysis projects.
Since 2020 they develop projects on Lausanne and the surrounding area. The site is analyzed in its evolution over time under multiple aspects: the morphological evolution of the city, population history, cultural heritage history, aspects related to uninhabited space and ecology, textual sources such as the press or some literary sources. All the projects are published online.