Seminar

Chercher des données : les bibliothèques numériques, un nouvel objet

Digital humanities at the heart of cultural heritage

Thursday 13 January 2022 Thursday 13 January 2022

14h-16h

With the participation of

Richard WALTER (Research/ CNRS)

Université de Corse Pasquale Paoli / en ligne

Université de Corse
Avenue Jean Nicoli
20250 Corte
France

42.305616, 9.1555418

Intervention de Richard Walter, Ingénieur de recherche au CNRS, UMR 7172 THALIM, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, ENS

La bibliothèque numérique s'est imposée dans un outil indispensable dans le monde académique et culturel. La bibliothèque a une définition communément admise (« une collection organisée de documents » a minima) mais en y adjoignant le terme numérique, cette définition est devenue très plurielle. Les missions dévolues aux bibliothèques « classiques » (constituer et valoriser une collection, conserver et communiquer un document) sont aussi prises en charge par les bibliothèques numériques mais dans des dimensions autres : les possibilités exponentielles et combinatoires de l'informatique font que les corpus deviennent de plus en plus étendus, avec des services nouveaux mais aussi des protocoles et des standards très hétérogènes. L'apparition de nouvelles exigences « wysiwyg » ou « user friendly », la généralisation des principes FAIR posent alors la question de la relation avec les usagers / utilisateurs qu'on pousse de plus en plus à être acteurs d'une bibliothèque numérique en les impliquant via du "collaboratif". Enfin, cette multiplication de corpus et de bibliothèques numériques accessibles à tous impactera forcément les hiérarchies dans les différentes histoires culturelles.

Thursday 13 January 2022

Digital humanities at the heart of cultural heritage

January 13 - June 30, 2022

With the explosion of the new technologies, the scientific and cultural contents are diffused more and more frequently by the means of the digital; the critical apparatuses which accompany them also tend to be sophisticated. New practices of reading, exploitation, and diffusion are established. To apprehend these new phenomena, a discipline is emerging: Digital Humanities. Its definition, still in flux today, tends to focus on the creation of new knowledge in the humanities and social sciences. The changes, radical and profound, are not only technical but also epistemological, sociological and cognitive.

Moreover, digital content must respect the good practices that are affiliated with them. Structured and documented according to standard and interoperable formats, they pose before our eyes new objects of knowledge that require exploitation tools as well as innovative visualization processes.

These visualization techniques are becoming a crucial issue for all publishing and digital content management projects. They allow, for example, to highlight the ignored aspects of a work, to support a study, to deepen a research track or to provide evidence to a reasoning. But to do this, it is necessary to become aware of new ways of reading and acquiring encoded documents.

Our seminar will expose the main initiatives and practices related to digital humanities in order to publish and exploit cultural content. Digital publishing responds to encoding principles capable of interpreting the diversity of textual meanings in computer tags. The goal is not, however, to train in a tool or a method: that would narrow the scope of an emerging discipline. Rather, we would like to provide a historical overview of the issues and propose elements of approach in the management of cultural heritage.

The entire cycle of seminars takes place in person at the University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli, in the immersive room of the UMR 6240 Lisa (Simeoni building.) Health pass required.

It can be followed remotely in livestreaming on request sent by email to dhlive@univ-corse.fr. Scientific leaders: Christophe Luzi and Richard Walter.

For more information, see the presentation page on the UMR Lisa website.