The future of online digitized heritage: the example of the Great War

The appearance of digital libraries such as “Gallica” at the French National Library (BnF) or “Archives and images” at the Library of Contemporary International Documentation (BDIC) calls into question their differences of contents and usages in vis-à-vis physical libraries. In the larger framework of cluster research on the mediation of history, this project seeks to observe the life of online heritage in the diversity of its reuses (discussion forums, blogs, microblogs, etc.), from the example of digitized collections concerning the First World War, notably created by the BnF and the BDIC. It will study the manner by which Internet users understand, appropriate, and sometimes transform these collections as a function of diverse uses of collective memory. This study should permit the rigorous testing of analytical tools that will supply heritage establishments with practical orientations for their policies of digitization and methods of evaluating them.

Project Leader

Philippe CHEVALLIER , Chef de projet à la délégation à la Stratégie et à la recherche, en charge de la programmation des études , Bibliothèque nationale de France

Internal cluster partners

• French National Library (BnF)
• La contemporaine | library, archives, museum of contemporary societies

Associated partners

Telecom Paristech
https://www.telecom-paristech.fr

Duration