La carte, de l’analogique au numérique. Modes de traitement et éléments de méthode

In the context of a research program dedicated to the automatic vectorisation of ancient cartographic documents, the authors examine maps as combinations of conventional symbols representing reality in a partial and biased way. After a detailed examination of the problems raised by the interpretation of documents and of the ambiguities they might contain, the authors consider the categorisation of the data as a crucial point and propose a multi-scalar and inter-scalar approach to facilitate their investigation.