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Art Mapping in Paris
This is a draft author version of a paper, deposited in line with publisher policy. The definitive version is available in the ACM Digital Library at DOI: 10.1145/2468356.2479602In this work, we describe a proposed technology demonstrator for Art Maps, a collaborative research project exploring the relation between artworks and the location that they depict, through the support of a cloud-based crowdsourcing platform with web and mobile interfaces. The Art Maps demonstration entails two types of hands-on experiences for the conference attendees: an in-CHI-experience and an optional bespoke outdoor activity to experience Paris through Art Maps
Landscape History and Theory: from Subject Matter to Analytic Tool
This essay explores how landscape history can engage methodologically with the
adjacent disciplines of art history and visual/cultural studies. Central to the
methodological problem is the mapping of the beholder � spatially, temporally and
phenomenologically. In this mapping process, landscape history is transformed from
subject matter to analytical tool. As a result, landscape history no longer simply imports
and applies ideas from other disciplines but develops its own methodologies to engage
and influence them. Landscape history, like art history, thereby takes on a creative
cultural presence. Through that process, landscape architecture and garden design
regain the cultural power now carried by the arts and museum studies, and has an effect
on the innovative capabilities of contemporary landscape design
Using an ontology for interoperability and browsing of museum, library and archive information
Ontologies play an important part in the development of the future ‘semantic web’; the CIDOC conceptual reference model (CRM) is an ontology aimed at the cultural heritage domain. This paper describes a Concept Browser, developed for the EU/IST-funded SCULPTEUR project (semantic and content-based multimedia exploitation for European benefit environment (programme IST-2001-no. 35372); May 2002 to May 2005), which is able to access different museum information systems through a common ontology, the CRM. The development of this Concept Browser has required mappings from the legacy museum database systems to the CRM. The crucial process of creating the mappings is described, using the C2RMF catalogue (EROS) and library databases as a case study
RNF: a general framework to evaluate NGS read mappers
Aligning reads to a reference sequence is a fundamental step in numerous
bioinformatics pipelines. As a consequence, the sensitivity and precision of
the mapping tool, applied with certain parameters to certain data, can
critically affect the accuracy of produced results (e.g., in variant calling
applications). Therefore, there has been an increasing demand of methods for
comparing mappers and for measuring effects of their parameters.
Read simulators combined with alignment evaluation tools provide the most
straightforward way to evaluate and compare mappers. Simulation of reads is
accompanied by information about their positions in the source genome. This
information is then used to evaluate alignments produced by the mapper.
Finally, reports containing statistics of successful read alignments are
created.
In default of standards for encoding read origins, every evaluation tool has
to be made explicitly compatible with the simulator used to generate reads. In
order to solve this obstacle, we have created a generic format RNF (Read Naming
Format) for assigning read names with encoded information about original
positions.
Futhermore, we have developed an associated software package RNF containing
two principal components. MIShmash applies one of popular read simulating tools
(among DwgSim, Art, Mason, CuReSim etc.) and transforms the generated reads
into RNF format. LAVEnder evaluates then a given read mapper using simulated
reads in RNF format. A special attention is payed to mapping qualities that
serve for parametrization of ROC curves, and to evaluation of the effect of
read sample contamination
The Cartographic Imagination: Art, Literature and Mapping in the United States, 1945-1980
Introduction “The Cartographic Imagination: Art, Literature, and Mapping in the United States, 1945-1980” was an international conference drawing together speakers and participants from across a range of disciplines at Reid Hall in Paris on 18th and 19th May 2018. Co-organised by Monica Manolescu (University of Strasbourg) and Will Norman (University of Kent), and funded mainly by the Terra Foundation for American Art, together with the SEARCH research group of the English Department at the U..
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Dynamic literature mapping : typography in screen-based media
This paper chronicles the development of a visual map representing a literature search on key theorists and thinkers in two principal topics: Typography and New Media. Its aim is to visualise and facilitate conceptual connections between key ideas and philosophies across disciplines. This literature map was drawn up by reviewing available influential literature within these topics. Related categories were later added and a further series of literature searches were conducted to build references in each topic. This on-going cyclical process serves to construct a comprehensive contextual map of knowledge. The benefit of the map is twofold. Primarily, aiding the researcher to navigate and understand complex layers of information. Secondly, allowing the researcher to present and share representations of knowledge. The clarity of the representation is crucial in eliciting the participation of fellow design researchers and practitioners to the development and growth of the literature map
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