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Analysis and reconstruction of catastrophes in history within interactive virtual environments and simulation
This project is now merged into ICTLab.
-“Navigable corpus”: is expected to gather, scan, analyze and build a navigable, sharable and expendable corpus from the datasets that document a past catastrophic event.The expected outcome is an interactive document browser, assisting the historian (considered here as an end-user) in the semi-automatic transcription of historical documents and enabling him/her to easily navigate in a collection of documents.
“Geo-historical database”: is expected to build a spatial representation of the Red River in the region of Hanoi over time and to link it with the previous corpus, so as to allow building a geo-historical GIS that supports spatial and temporal navigation within past events.
“Geo-historical agent-based model”: is expected to propose a methodology to design agent-based models of past catastrophic events, built upon the data gathered in the corpus and in the geo-historical database; to run, using these models, simulations faithful to historical accounts in order to verify the completeness of these accounts; to allow users to explore uchronias produced, for example, by a change in the decisions made by simulated actors and leading to "alternative realities", that potentially carry valuable lessons for a contemporary audience.
Analysis and reconstruction of catastrophes in history within interactive virtual environments and simulation
This project is now merged into ICTLab.
- Description
-“Navigable corpus”: is expected to gather, scan, analyze and build a navigable, sharable and expendable corpus from the datasets that document a past catastrophic event.The expected outcome is an interactive document browser, assisting the historian (considered here as an end-user) in the semi-automatic transcription of historical documents and enabling him/her to easily navigate in a collection of documents.
“Geo-historical database”: is expected to build a spatial representation of the Red River in the region of Hanoi over time and to link it with the previous corpus, so as to allow building a geo-historical GIS that supports spatial and temporal navigation within past events.
“Geo-historical agent-based model”: is expected to propose a methodology to design agent-based models of past catastrophic events, built upon the data gathered in the corpus and in the geo-historical database; to run, using these models, simulations faithful to historical accounts in order to verify the completeness of these accounts; to allow users to explore uchronias produced, for example, by a change in the decisions made by simulated actors and leading to "alternative realities", that potentially carry valuable lessons for a contemporary audience.
