Vaucluse

Status: available

Last update: 15/04/2026

Progress: Service offered to institutions.

Objective

Build a reproducible pipeline to extract, clean, and georeference postcards.

Industrialized by querying paid external servers (billing based on the volume of data processed).
Workshop run as part of the distam+ summer school, on slides described in French and Farsi #academicvalidation
Strengthen metadata cleaning with a database?
Offer the service to other archival collections (and get paid).
Consider additional sources?
Industrialize outreach.

26/02/2026: created the project page and rebuilt timeline history.
15/04/2026: the map for the Vaucluse archives is about to be published. HuggingFace portfolio space built. Offer put together for other archival collections. Benchmark done.
05/2026: first contacts with institutions. Considering (with Maxime) connecting to ongoing / in-development projects.
06/2026: organized a workshop day at the distam+ summer school “From Closure to Sharing: Exploring Research Data on the Heritage of Afghanistan and Neighbouring Territories”. Produced teaching notebooks and deployed our workflow on the IFRI corpus.