Collaborations
The members of the institutions designated below produce historical data for the ALPAGE programme:
- The Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (IRHT): Caroline Bourlet, Boris Bove, medievalist historians specialised in the economic and social history of Paris;
- Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS): Sandrine Robert, archaeo-geographer specialised in the study of road networks, Eric Mermet, computer scientist, developer of the GeoGraphLab
- The Laboratoire Dynamiques patrimoniales et culturelles (DYPAC) of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University : Davide Gherdevich, research engineer specialised in historical GIS.
Numerous maps and plans were generously made available or have been subject to agreed exchanges with the following institutions:
- Paris Urban Planning Agency (APUR): current plots and 19th century plans georeferenced or non-georeferenced (shapefiles, rasters);
- Archives départementales de Paris and the Archives nationales (maps and plans department): P. Vasserot’s cadastre by urban block (rasters);
- Ville de Paris, Direction de l’Urbanisme, ‘action foncière’ division, Service de la Topographie et de la Documentation Foncière (STDF): 19th century georeferenced or non-georeferenced plans (rasters, shapefiles);
- Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris (BHVP): 19th century expropriation plans (black and white prints);
- Service départemental archéologique du Val d’Oise (SDAVO): 19th century georeferenced plans (shapefiles);
- Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (INRAP, M. Belarbi, P. Raymond): plans by Berty (shapefiles);
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Maps and plans department (BnF, Jean-Yves Sarazin): plot plans by Delagrive (scanned rasters).
Associate Research Laboratories
The ALPAGE programme is based on the active collaboration of 4 research teams (3 Humanities and Social Sciences and 1 Information and Communication Technology) who signed a consortium agreement in 2009:
- Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LAMOP), Paris 1, project director, comprised of historians, specialists in urban history and digital tools: Hélène Noizet;
- LIttoral ENvironment and Societies (LIENSs), La Rochelle, with geographers specialised in geomatics: Frédéric Pouget;
- Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité (ArScAn), Nanterre, bringing together archaeologists and geomaticians specialised in GIS and in the archaeology of the Parisian region (Ile-de-France): Laurent Costa;
- Laboratoire Informatique, Image et Interaction (L3i), La Rochelle, bringing together computer scientists specialised in pattern recognition and vectorisation: Jean-Christophe Burie.
Funding
The following institutions provided financial support:
- ANR (The French National Research Agency);
- CNRS (The National Center for Scientific Research).
- LabEx DynamiTe (cluster of excellence “Territorial and Spatial Dynamics”);
- IUF (Institut Universitaire de France);
- LAMOP (Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris);
- The “Bassin parisien” programme in association with the ArScAn (Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité) laboratory.