Workshop

Symposium: launch of DatArt_Asie

Wednesday 15 February 2023 Wednesday 15 February 2023

From 2 to 4 PM

With the participation of

Lea SAINT-RAYMOND (Researcher/ ENS-PSL)

Quentin Bernet (Student/ ENS-PSL)

ENS-PSL, salle de conférences du Centre Sciences des Données

ENS-PSL
45 rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris
France

48.8422951, 2.3442717

The Observatory of Digital Humanities of ENS-PSL and the University of Tokyo are honored to officially launch the DatArt_Asie digital project, co-directed by Léa Saint-Raymond and Torahiko Terada. This symposium will welcome students from UTokyo, accompanied by Albéric Derible.

The Datart_Asie project

In the continuity of GeoMAP, DatArt_Asie studies the market for Asian objects in Paris since the middle of the 19th century. Indeed, the forced economic opening of China and Japan in 1860 led to a boom in trade with the West and, from the 1870s, to the vogue for "Japonism". While this phenomenon is largely documented by studies, essentially monographic or devoted to a short period, it is necessary to analyze, over a long period of time, the evolution of these commercial relations with Asia based on homogeneous and diachronic data.

The DatArt_Asie project is based on a twofold corpus:

The Bottin du commerce, published annually from 1815 onwards, presents the various dealers established in Paris according to a classification by category, mentioning their addresses and, optionally, a short description of their activity. The entirety of the "chinoiseries (marchands de)" and "japoneries (marchands de)" sections has been analysed and georeferenced, thus forming a corpus of 432 companies between 1868 and 1954
On the Japanese side, the Japan Directory, published in 1868, is currently being analysed in the Yokohama departmental archives.

DatArt_Asie data is displayed on a digital library and an interactive map. Each point corresponds to a single dealer, an address and a given date. The description of the activity in the Bottin du commerce is displayed in a pop-up window.

It is possible to filter the dealers according to their heading ("chinoiseries" and/or "japoneries"). Their counters in Asia are also displayed, when the Bottin du commerce mentions them. When a company has, for the same period, several stores or counters, these different addresses are linked together by a line on the map. Finally, addresses located on the street are distinguished from those located in the city.

Team

Database:

Léa Saint-Raymond (ENS-PSL) : retranscription and georeferencing of "chinoiseries dealers" and "japoneries dealers" in the Bottin du commerce, between 1865 and 1954.
Torahiko Terada (UTokyo) and the UTokyo students : retranscription of the Japan Directory from 1868

Programming and web design : Quentin Bernet.