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HTML for this article, including the attribution and page view counter, is below: h2 Machine learning and big data are unlocking Europe’s archives /h2 br p These issues are well-known in Amsterdam, which is trying to disclose its entire archives. For the notary records alone ‘there s about three and a half kilometres in paper,’ said Pauline van den Heuvel, an archivist at Amsterdam City Archives in the Netherlands. That’s around 11,800 pages of A4 paper laid end-to-end. She says the total collection is about 50km long, equivalent to 170,000 A4 pages. ‘We know they are really important (documents), but it s really a black hole.’ /p
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Unique record: 220,000 years of earthquake history
A 457-metre long “data treasure” in the shape of a drilling core from the Dead Sea provides a unique insight into past earthquake history. These findings are essential for improving seismic hazard assessment. Yin Lu is an expert in the field of paleoseismology and has recently joined the Sedimentary Geology research group at the Department of Geology.
Earthquakes are among the most devastating natural disasters on our planet. Especially large earthquakes with a magnitude above 7 are very dangerous. In order to understand the dynamics behind earthquakes, a look into the past is essential. However, this look does not go very far, as reliable seismological recordings only reach back about 100 years, and historical data are not sufficient in this respect. Researchers therefore rely on drilling cores from sediment deposits from the deep sea or even lakes to obtain precise data from prehistoric times. “The different sedi
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