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Catalogues régionaux des Incunables : CRI & CR2I en 2017, entre poursuite & aboutissement

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Si 2015 a été une année où le travail sur les anciens possesseurs est venu compléter l’informatisation, 2016 aura vu une avancée conséquente que ce soit au niveau de l’informatisation des notices ou de la rédaction des volumes papier.

CRI Papier, deux nouvelles régions bientôt décrites

L’année avait débuté avec la parution en mai d’un nouveau volume consacré aux bibliothèques parisiennes (Alliance Israëlite Universelle, Archives Nationales, Assemblée Nationale, Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris, Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français, etc.) rédigé par Dominique Coq. 

2017 ne devrait pas déroger à la tradition. Le premier Catalogue régional des Incunables attendu à la publication sera celui de Marie-Claire Waille consacré à la Franche-Comté (le XIXe volume de la collection). Fort de 1 354 éditions réparties en 1 577 exemplaires (dont 12 unica et plusieurs dizaines d’éditions très rares), il s’ancrera dans la lignée de la série des CRI en ajoutant aux notices, la présentation et l’analyse des fonds, des index d’imprimeurs-libraires, de reliures et de provenances. Deux tomes seront nécessaires pour contenir la matière de ce volume. Continuer la lecture →

The BVH in Tours: digital library of image, text and data – TEI Conference Wien, September 30th 2016

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The BVH in Tours: digital library of image, text and data[1]

TEI Conference
Wien, September 30th 2016

Sandrine Breuil, Mathieu Duboc, Guillaume Porte et Toshinori Uetani

1-1 BVH

The Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes (BVH, or Virtual Humanistic Libraries) are a research project run since 2002 at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours, France (CESR, or Center for Advanced Renaissance Studies) in collaboration not only with academic partners like the Humanism Section of the IRHT, the computer science team of the University of Tours or some linguistic laboratories of Tours, Lyons or Poitiers, but also with Libraries and Archives mainly from the French Centre Region.

1-2 Main goal

The objective of the BVH is clearly stated in 2003.  It has never changed since: “to develop a digital library of original documents of the Renaissance period, delivering two types of reliable digital representations, facsimile and text, closely linked together”[2].  Fidelity to the original document has always guided our choices.  A facsimile contains in principle the entire part of the original document including binding, blank pages, end-papers, edges or back.  We describe as precisely as possible its bibliographical and codicological states in order to guarantee the authenticity of its digital version.  In the Epistemon corpus, XVIth century French texts are transcribed directly from the original documents.  The encoding schema of our specific TEI-Renaissance guidelines is adapted to the spelling and punctuation of the XVIth century French and the page layout of the Early Modern prints. This scrupulous fidelity to the original document makes our TEI files sometimes very complex. Continuer la lecture →

Development of text and image processing for digital libraries: the Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes project and the digitization of Renaissance documents | Succeed Awards 2014, Nomination

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En Mai 2014, Les Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes se sont vues décernées le prix Succeed, soutenu par l’Union Européenne et par Impact Centre of Competence, qui récompensait « la mise en œuvre réussie d’un programme de numérisation exploitant les nouvelles technologies et les travaux de recherche en matière de numérisation des documents historiques ». Nous vous proposons ici, pour mémoire, la lecture du dossier complet soumis au comité des Succeed Awards.

Nomination summary

Development of text and image processing for digital libraries: the Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes project and the digitization of Renaissance documents

Abstract

The BVH (Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes: Virtual Humanistic Libraries) is a research program devoted to the digitization and electronic publication of original source documents from the Renaissance period. Since 2003, its website has published digital facsimiles, selected Early Modern imprints (1450-1650) mainly from regional collections, and transcriptions of French texts of the same period, encoded according to the XML-TEI standard. Particular attention is paid to achieving great accuracy in the bibliographical description as regards the true states of originals and the closest correspondence between two distinct corpora, facsimile and text, linked by several levels of metadata in the main catalogue. The BVH team works in close collaboration with researchers from the Computer Science Laboratory of Tours (LI-Tours) to develop new technologies in the fields of image processing and pattern recognition. Open source software for layout analysis and text transcriptions, AGORA and RETRO, enables us to perform automatic extraction of graphic components from digitized books, and thus to build up specialized databases of iconographic and typographical material. As a member of the TEI consortium, we actively contribute to the development of a specialised schema for the transcription of Renaissance documents. Each step of processing and every component developed at the BVH is also intended for use by the whole digital community, creating a model for the digital library of the future.

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