ousmane-hamadou/M.Sc.-thesis

LaTeX repository for M.Sc. thesis (University of Ngaoundéré): Frugal semantic indexing of handwritten civil status records and knowledge graphs for archival governance in Sub-Saharan Africa. # 🎓 Master's Thesis (M.Sc. in Computer Science) **Title:** Frugal Semantic Indexing of Handwritten Civil Status Records for Archiving: Knowledge Graph for Archival and Document Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa **Author:** Ousmane Hamadou **Institution:** University of Ngaoundéré (Cameroon) **Degree:** Master 2 Research in Computer Science --- ### 📌 About the Project This repository contains the LaTeX source code and Git versioning workflow for my Master's thesis. The primary objective of this research is to design a frugal semantic indexing approach tailored to the processing, preservation, and long-term archiving of handwritten civil status registers within the Sub-Saharan African context. By leveraging knowledge graphs and semantic web standards, the system aims to improve document governance, interoperability, and retrieval efficiency. --- ### 🛠️ Keywords & Technologies - **Research Domains:** Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs (Ontologies, RiC-O), Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), Frugal AI, Document Governance. - **Writing & Tooling:** LaTeX, Git / Git Flow, BibTeX, VS Code. --- ### 📁 Repository Structure ```text . ├── bibliography/ # BibTeX reference databases ├── chapters/ # Individual LaTeX chapter files ├── figures/ # Diagrams, architectures, and charts ├── livrables_officiels/# Compiled official PDF releases ├── preamble/ # LaTeX packages and custom macros └── main.tex # Main document root file ``` ```bash # Clone the repository git clone github.com cd memoire-master2 # Compile the main document pdflatex main.tex bibtex main pdflatex main.tex pdflatex main.tex ```