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FYI France: Digital Library work in France

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"Elizabeth L. Brown" <[log in to unmask]>

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A must-share for your French teachers.... forwarded from another listserv.

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FYI France: Digital Library work in France

Current Digital Library work in France is covered well in the
following resources: most have some form of English language
interface available. Sometimes it is useful to have a non -
English language effort in the mix. Examples, research, catalogs,
search terms --

1) examples of Digital Libraries, in France

* The Bibliothe`que nationale de France

  http://www.bnf.fr/

  * http://gallica.bnf.fr/ -- Gallica, the bibliothe`que
  nume'rique of the BnF --

  Files online at Gallica include:

  "Discover Africa through the Accounts of Travelers" -- texts,
  reviews, maps, sounds, photographs.

  "Learned Societies" -- Science journals and reviews, published
  by 29 societies from 1750 to 1914.

  "Discover France through the Accounts of Travelers" -- text,
  images, sound, a panorama of France from the Middle  Ages to the
  beginning of the 20th century.

  "Utopia" -- the exhibition "Utopia, the Quest for an Ideal
  Society in the West", organised April 4 - July 9 2000 by the BnF
  and the New York Public Library.

  "The Proust File" -- the original manuscript of the final volume
  of _La Recherche du Temps Perdu : Le Temps Retrouve'_.

  "The Voice, on Gallica" -- the first experiments in sound
  recording, from the era before the microphone -- historical
  documents including Pathe' recordings of "Speeches of French
  Politicians of the First World War Era".

  "Discover Italy through the Accounts of Travelers" -- texts,
  reviews, maps, sounds, photographs (coming soon)

  "Gallica Classique" -- for students, researchers, teachers --
  the great authors of French literature, including _La Come'die
  Humaine_ of Balzac, the complete works of Chateaubriand, and the
  famous collection of Classiques Garnier.

  * http://expositions.bnf.fr/ -- "Online Exhibits" of the BnF
    http://expositions.bnf.fr/usindex.htm (in English)

  Current "Online Exhibits" of the BnF include:

  "Comics Before There Were Comics" -- the cartoon, and the
  graphic image generally.

  "Medieval Gastronomy" -- health, wealth and recipes...

  "The Art of the Arab Book" -- sumptuous illustration.

  "Fairy Tales" -- what it takes to make one, and what they look
  and sound like -- "Il e'tait une fois..."

  "Paris, Work and Daily Life" -- images from the last century
  files of L'Aurore - Le Figaro.

  "Brouillons d'Ecrivains" -- how writers write -- from medieval
  manuscripts to Zola, Balzac, Queneau.

  * http://classes.bnf.fr/ -- "Teaching Materials", at the BnF

  Very useful to all sorts of people: for example in History,
  "Maps, Atlases et Globes", including "L'Atlas catalan", "Les
  globes de Coronelli", "Lubinetski", "Le Ce'larius", "L'Atlas
  Apianus", "Orion", "La ge'ographie d'Idri^si^", "Les mappemondes
  en TO" -- or in Literature, "Approaches Through Symbols",
  including "Images of the Internet".

  General note: The national library, the Bibliothe`que nationale
  de France, has mounted a large and increasing number of very
  interesting exhibits online, any or all together of which can
  offer much insight into the French approach to the Digital
  Libraries theme. This is a "national patrimony" strategy, one
  significantly coordinated from a centralized and governmental
  perspective -- in marked distinction to many Digital Library
  efforts elsewhere, but more the common case for countries
  outside of the US. In most places these things are centralized,
  in spite of the supposedly - decentralized nature of the Internet.

* The Bibliothe`que municipale de Lyon

  http://www.bm-lyon.fr/

  Current online exhibits include:

  "Gabriele Di Matteo: The blind man, recent works."

  "Si tu es sage, tu auras une image: Imagery -- the popular, the
  religious and the profane."

  "From Streetcrime to the Front Page: the Belle Epoque in the
  illustrated press."

  "A Jesuit Library: A look at the Fontaines collection."

  "Little Red Riding Hood: in the forest of fable."

  "Prophecies for Trouble Times: Nostradamus over the centuries."

  General note: Decentralization does exist in France, however --
  largely as a product of a very strong and longstanding national
  central government effort in fact. There are, in addition,
  strong and proud regional traditions which add to the local mix
  as well. In Lyon, which has long been an alternative pole to
  Paris throughout French history, the famous bibliothe`que
  municipale there proudly offers examples online of what a French
  regional locality can achieve in Digital Library work. So even
  in countries which have not yet tried this, the French example
  offers hope to local and regional and trans - national efforts.

* The French national Ministry of Culture

  http://www.culture.fr -- outstanding example of a centralized
  and governmental approach to Digital Libraries work -- one -
  stop shopping for everything "digital" going on in the country's
  cultural affairs, including several not to be missed online
  exhibits, such as,

  http://www.saqqara.culture.gouv.fr/ -- a fascinating tour
  through the Louvre's "Mastaba de Akhethe'tep"...

* The National Library School -- the ENSSIB / Ecole Nationale
Supe'rieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothe`ques --

  http://www.enssib.fr/ -- the school
  http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque/ -- the ENSSIB library
  http://bbf.enssib.fr/ -- the BBF / Bulletin des Bibliothe`ques
  de France (online and printed editions)

  http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque/dossthem/Bibliotheque-electronique/programme.html
  -- "Programs in Digital Libraries, including "Collections de
  textes e'lectroniques" and "Ressources documentaires de la
  bibliothe`que de l'enssib".

  http://debora.enssib.fr/ -- something relatively new, called,
  intriguingly, "Digital accEss to BOoks of the RenAissance"...

* IRCAM / Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique /
Musique -- offering many Digital Library resources, including,

  http://mac-texier.ircam.fr/index.html -- About Composers --

  Entering "ginastera" retrieves "Alberto Ginastera, Compositeur
  argentin ne' le 11 avril 1916 a` Buenos Aires, mort le 25 juin
  1983 a` Gene`ve", and "passacaglia" retrieves "De Mey, Ligeti,
  Penderecki, Semini, Stravinsky, Webern..." no Bach, though...

* The exhibit of and tour through the phenomenal "L'Abbaye Saint
Germain d'Auxerre" site, online -- "worth a journey..." --

  http://www.auxerre.culture.gouv.fr/


2) Digital Library teaching / techniques / research, in France

* INRIA / Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
Automatique

  http://www.inria.fr
  http://www.inria.fr/index.en.html (in English)
  http://www.inria.fr/recherche/equipes/index.fr.html -- research
  http://www.inria.fr/multimedia/ -- some pretty neat projects...

* ENSSIB / Ecole Nationale Supe'rieure des Sciences de
l'Information et des Bibliothe`ques -- the library school

  http://www.enssib.fr/

* IRCAM / Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique /
Musique -- an impressivly - maintained list of upcoming
conferences, worldwide, on music and the Internet and Text
Retrieval and Data Mining and "Algorithmic Learning Theory", and
then some... --

  http://mediatheque.ircam.fr/conferences/2002.html


3) catalogs -- links to other Digital Library efforts, in France
-- "Linkothe`ques" (their term, not mine) --

* "Les Signets de la Bibliothe`que nationale de France" --
  http://www.bnf.fr/pages/liens/index.htm

* "L'Internet Culturel", of the Ministry --
  http://www.portail.culture.fr/sdx/pic/culture/int/index.htm

* Yahoo.fr --
  http://www.yahoo.fr/ (or) http://yahoo.fr (or)
  http://fr.yahoo.com/
  http://fr.search.yahoo.com/search/fr?p=bibliotheques
  http://fr.dir.yahoo.com/sciences_et_technologies/informatique/laboratoires_et_centres_de_recherche/


4) operative search terms -- for search & retrieval in Digital
Library things, in French -- for "nations separated by a common
Latin"...

  automatisation
  banque(s) de donne'e(s)
  bibliothe`que(s) nume'rique(s)
  bibliothe`que(s) e'lectronique(s)
  bibliothe`que(s) en ligne(s)
  bibliothe`que(s) virtuelle(s)
  centre(s) de documentation
  digital library(ies)
  digitalisation
  digitisation
  documentation
  e'dition(s) e'lectronique(s)
  e'dition(s) nume'rique(s)
  innovation(s)
  logiciel(s)
  nume'risation...

  and,

  le Web, la Webbe, le Ouebbe, la Ouebbe, "sur Internet", "sur
  l'Internet", l'araigne'e...


The French nearly always do things a little differently -- always
very useful for Digital Library comparisons, comparative
analysis, an "outside view" -- they don't do it in English, for
example... not first, anyway...


                                 --oOo--


FYI France (sm)(tm) e-journal                   ISSN 1071 - 5916

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