Digital projects
Cylinder seals of the Ancient Near East
As part of AssyrOnline Project, cylinder seals kept in the Cabinet des médailles et antiques of the Bibliothèque nationale de France have been digitized and published on the SESPOA (Sceaux et empreintes de sceau du Proche-Orient ancien) website.
As part of AssyrOnline Project, cylinder seals kept in the Cabinet des médailles et antiques of the Bibliothèque nationale de France have been digitized and published on the SESPOA (Sceaux et empreintes de sceau du Proche-Orient ancien) website.
The cylinder seals of the Ancient Near East are small objects engraved with figurative or non-figurative illustration and sometimes with text ; they were produced and used between 3300 and 300 BC. Generally made of hard stone and more or less the size of a bottle cap, they were unrolled on fresh clay to seal containers and doors, or to leave an impression on some types of cuneiforms texts. The main function of the seals was to verify and authenticate transactions or protect access to property and buildings.
These objects were also used as jewellery, votive objects or amulets. The cylinder seals and their impressions on clay constitute one of the most important documentary sets of the Ancient Near East. Due to the variety of the objects themselves - of the materials as well as of the scenes and motifs engraved in miniatures - they represent a major source of information for researchers.
Digital atlas of ancient libraries
The atlas of ancient libraries is a sub-programme of Project NimRoD: from Nimrud to Rome, Discovering ancient libraries. The online platform has been planned to allow multiple entry points.
The atlas of ancient libraries is a sub-programme of Project NimRoD: from Nimrud to Rome, Discovering ancient libraries. The online platform has been planned to allow multiple entry points.
Our primary focus has been on the atlas part of this website. Its aim is to present synthetically ancient libraries attested by textual or material sources (and those that have been supposed), as well as the sites where they were located. Additional developments give the opportunity to interested readers to explore more deeply some aspects of these libraries.
The first sites and libraries are now online, in French and —for some of them— in English.
Come and discover them here : http://nimrod.huma-num.fr/
In a later phase, we plan to develop an encyclopaedic part, which will present tendencies and similarities between some libraries, or, on the contrary, focus on remarkable cases.
Artists' libraries
The team of project "Dialectical Images, imaginary museums, virtuel museums" developed a specific analysis of artists' librairies and a documentary web portal.
The team of project "Dialectical Images, imaginary museums, virtuel museums" developed a specific analysis of artists' librairies and a documentary web portal.
This project uses new technologies to explore an often overlooked archive type, that of the artists' libraries of the 19th and 20th centuries. These archives are less than well known in art history and yet are very important to a more comprehensive understanding of artworks as well as of the artists’ creative process. Browsing through the collections of books, magazines, catalogs and illustrations of these libraries allows us to discover the cultural world of the artists and the making of their art from a new angle.
This website is designed as a portal dedicated to the study of artists libraries. You will not only find the lists of their books, but you will also be able to leaf through their digitized version, to discover a constantly updated inventory of library collections through an interactive map. You will also be given access to methodological tools and instruments to better analyze these resources.
Triplestores CIDOC-CRM
In the framework of the research project "Modeling, frames of reference, and digital culture", 3 triplestores were created. They give access to the semantic descriptions CIDOC-CRM of data from 3 projects conducted within the cluster.
In the framework of the research project "Modeling, frames of reference, and digital culture" (ModRef), 3 triplestores were created. They give access to the semantic descriptions CIDOC-CRM of data from 3 projects (Assyronline, Archeological objects with mythological iconography in the BNF’s Department of Medals, and Digital library of the BDIC) conducted within the cluster.
Access to the datawarehouses of RDF files of the ModRef project
In the footsteps of the 1946 Ogooué-Congo Mission
Virtual exhibition proposed in the framework of Europeana Sounds and conceived thanks to ethnomusicology archives kept at the Musée de l'Homme and curated by the Center for Research in Ethnomusicology (LESC-CREM). These archives were digitized in the framewok of the project "Sources of ethnomusicology" developed within the Pasts in the Present cluster.
In 1947, 70 years ago, the public discovered one of the first sound recordings of Pygmy music collected in Equatorial Africa by the French ethnomusicologist Gilbert Rouget.
These were recorded during the Ogooué-Congo Mission, a scientific expedition led by the 23-year old French ethnologist Noël Ballif. This mission was the first organised by the Liotard group, a collective of young French explorers from Paris’ Musée de l’Homme.
From July to December 1946, the 12 members of the expedition travelled across the former Middle Congo (the current Republic of the Congo) and Gabon. They spent six weeks completely immersed in Babinga Pygmies tribes from the Haute Sangha region, in the North of Moyen Congo - an experience that turned out to be decisive for some of them.
Whether they are sound recordings, photographs, films, artifacts or scientific studies, the documents collected and produced during and after the Ogooué-Congo Mission allow us to discover their adventure.
This virtual exhibition is proposed in the framework of Europeana Sounds and conceived thanks to ethnomusicology archives kept at the Musée de l'Homme and curated by the Center for Research in Ethnomusicology (LESC-CREM). These archives were digitized in the framewok of the project "Sources of ethnomusicology" developed within the Pasts in the Present cluster.
Conception : Aude Julien Da Cruz Lima, Thomas Henry (Ceints de bakélite), Joséphine Simonnot.
Texts & research : Thomas Henry (Ceints de bakélite)
Go to the exhibition "In the footsteps of the 1946 Ogooué-Congo Mission"
At the birth of French ethnology
Created by the LESC, this website on ethnographic missions to sub-Saharan Africa between 1928 and 1939 documents an important moment of the professionalisation process of the French ethnology.
The site “At the birth of French ethnology. The ethnographic missions to sub-Saharan Africa (1928-1939)” is the result of the project of the same name developed within the labex in association with the Library Éric-de-Dampierre of the Laboratory of comparative ethnology and sociology, French National Library, and the Quai Branly Museum-Jacques Chirac.
The project has a double objective: elucidate the institutionalization of French ethnology and promote the ethnographic archives and collections of each partner by making public a sum of documents and analyses on the missions conducted in sub-Saharan Africa by a new generation of professional ethnologists.
Visit the website At the birth of French ethnology. The ethnographic missions to sub-Saharan Africa (1928-1939)
INOUI, Music from the world of Nanterre
The web documentary “INOUI, music from the world of Nanterre,” presents one part of the ethnomusicological audiovisual corpus on the musical and dance heritage of one population: the inhabitants of Nanterre.
The web documentary “INOUI, music from the world of Nanterre,” presents one part of the ethnomusicological audiovisual corpus on the musical and dance heritage of one population: the inhabitants of Nanterre. The culmination of the research-action program “The musical heritage of Nanterrians,” the project was initiated by the University of Paris Nanterre’s department of anthropology (master’s EMAD) and developed within the LabEx The pasts in the present. Conducted in Nanterre since 2010, this ethnomusicological program mobilizes students in ethnomusicology and anthropology of dance and managed by a faculty member-researcher.
Beyond the archiving of repertoires and life stories, the project seeks to promote and bring to life the practices of Nanterrians. It aims to chart a living heritage, make known, and give legitimacy to little-known yet extraordinary musical practices
Go to the web documentary INOUI, Musiques du monde de Nanterre
Inouï (teaser) - EMAD (Univ. Paris Nanterre) - CREM (CNRS) - Ville de Nanterre - Musée du Quai Branly. from CAP Films on Vimeo.
Archives deposit in the Argonnaute digital library
The digitization campaigns accomplished during the projects “Valois Albums” and “European posters,” populated the BDIC's digital library, the Argonnaute.
The digitization campaigns accomplished during the projects “Valois Albums” and “European posters,” populated the BDIC's digital library, the Argonnaute.
The portal provides access to more than 150,000 documents digitized by the BDIC: printed materials and archival documents, drawings, paintings, photographs, posters, and objects that provide the opportunity to swim in the primary sources of 20th century history.
Go to the Argonnaute digital library
Digital toolkit of the BDIC
Following the digitization campaigns accomplished during the projects “Valois Albums” and “European posters,” which populated its digital library, the Argonnaute, the BDIC proposed a digital toolkit, an interactive and pedagogical tool for secondary teachers and students, making available online sources and documents with history programs.
Following the digitization campaigns accomplished during the projects “Valois Albums” and “European posters,” which populated its digital library, the Argonnaute, the BDIC proposed a digital toolkit, an interactive and pedagogical tool for secondary teachers and students, making available online sources and documents with history programs.
Four currently proposed themes:
- The First World War
- The arts, witnesses to history in the 20th century
- The rise of fascisms in the 1930s
- The Second World War
Go to the digital toolkit of the BDIC
Website of the project "Comédie-Française Registers"
To give access easy access to the database “Registers of the Comédie-Française and with the goal of promoting the tools created and put at the service of the community, a general site web has been developed.
To give access easy access to the database “Registers of the Comédie-Française and with the goal of promoting the tools created and put at the service of the community, a general site web has been developed. It contains a veritable mine of complementary resources for researchers and teachers and it gives free access to scientific publications directly linked to the database. The site also represents the showcase for the project, its team, its events, its archives, and it furnish a data dictionary (in progress).
Go to the website of the "Comédie-Française Registers" project
The Arkeotek Journal
The project of putting online the experimental and ethnoarcheological reference datasets on the archeological techniques materialized through the publication in The Arkeotek Journal of 6 reference datasets.
The project of putting online the experimental and ethnoarcheological reference datasets on the archeological techniques materialized through the publication in The Arkeotek Journal of 6 reference datasets:
- 3 on ceramic techniques (original article by C. Jeffra, 2015, and republished articles by A. Gelbert, 2003),
- 1 on finishing techniques on hard rock beads (republished article by Errico et al.),
- 1 on grinding materials (original article by S. Delgado, 2015), 1 on the collection modalities of the Columbella Rustica (original article by C. Perlès, 2016),
- and 1 dataset on the function of bone points (original article by A. Legrand, 2016). These reference datasets feature the organization of data, illustrated with photographs, drawings, and films, depending on their analysis and interpretation, thereby offering their readers true knowledge bases.
The engineering work surrounding the editing and publishing of reference datasets is assured by MRSH of Caen.