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Hi, This message is to inform you about the presentation of two new open source tools for publishing collections of digitized images and EAD findings aids : Pleade and Navimages. The presentations will be in French, but questions and comments in English are welcome. Details and program below. Thank you, Martin Sévigny AJLSM ----- Presentation of Pleade and Navimages AJLSM and Anaphore companies, along with the Centre historique des Archives nationales (CHAN) will host on October the 7th a presentation of two open source tools, Pleade and Navimages : - Pleade is a generic platform for searching and browsing archival finding aids encoded in XML/EAD, jointly developed by AJLSM and Anaphore. Pleade’s website is at http://www.pleade.org - Navimages is a generic platform for managing, searching, browsing and viewing series of digital images. The platform is developed by AJLSM under a contract from the Direction des archives de France. Navimages’ website is at http://sdx.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/gpl/navimages/ Both toolkits, which have been designed to closely work together, provide innovative software solutions to build documentary applications from archival resources. They make use of the open source SDX platform (http://sdx.culture.fr ). Both software will be officially introduced during the October 7th meeting; their source code will be publicly available in September. Archivists and other heritage information specialists will be invited, along with their partners, public or private. The meeting will begin at 14h00 in the afternoon, and will be held at the Musée de l’histoire de France at CHAN (Paris, France). The program and exact location are below. Registration is currently open, you just have to email, mail, phone or fax to Ghislaine Darthy (contact information is below), giving your name and institution. ------------ PROGRAM -------------- When : Tuesday, October 5th, 2003, 14h00 Where : Musée de l'histoire de France (CHAN, hôtel de Soubise, 60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, 75003 PARIS, France ; metro : Rambuteau, Arts-et-Métiers, Hôtel-de-Ville) 14h00 - 14h10 : Welcoming message by Martine de Boisdeffre, directrice des Archives de France 14h10 - 14h25 : General introduction, by Marie-Paule Arnauld, directeur du Centre historique des Archives nationales, France (CHAN) 14h25 - 14h50 : Free software and digitization of cultural resources : the research and development politics of the ministry, by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, head of the mission de la recherche et de la technologie au ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France 14h50 - 15h10 : Presentation of PLEADE, by Martin Sévigny, AJLSM 15h10 - 15h45 : Using PLEADE as a complement to Arkhéïa's Aide au classement module, by Louis Colombani, Anaphore ; PLEADE at the departmental archives of Maine-et-Loire (France) : first experiences, by Laurent Salaün, IT specialist at the departmental archives of Maine-et-Loire 15h45 - 16h10 : Break 16h10 - 16h30 : Presentation of Navimages, by Martin Sévigny, AJLSM 16h30 - 16h50 : Using Navimages for the application "Etat civil des Français d'Algérie", by Agnès Goudail, scientific director of the operation at the Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer, France (CAOM) 16h55 - 17h20 : Using Navimages for the Champlain project - general presentation of the project, by Martine Cornède, project leader for France - presentation of the Champlain application, by Martin Sévigny, AJLSM 17h20 - 17h45 : PLEADE and Navimages: basic tools for building an information system, by Florence Clavaud, IT director, CHAN From 18h00, a cocktail will be served to all participants. --------- INSCRIPTIONS ------------- Centre historique des Archives nationales Service des nouvelles technologies Ghislaine Darthy 60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois 75 141 CEDEX 03 Tel : +33 (0)1 40 27 62 32 Fax : +33 (0)1 40 27 66 02 Email: [log in to unmask]