Digital Heritage 2015: Workshop Presentation by Agnès Vatican, Conseil Général de la Gironde - Archives Départementales de la Gironde, France Granada, Spain 1st October 2015

1. Dynamics and partnerships with
local associations involved in
LoCloud: a case study in Gironde
Agnès Vatican, Director of the Gironde Archives
In collaboration with Nathalie Gascoin and Julien Dutertre, Lo Cloud project managers

2. The Gironde Archives
A public institution created by
the French Revolution
(1796), tasked with
collecting, conserving,
classifying and
communicating to the public
archival documents
produced in the Gironde by
public administrative
authorities (state, local
authorities, public
establishments, lawyers) and
private archival collections of
historic interest.

3. The Gironde Archives
Modern cultural facilities conserving and making available to the public
more than 70 linear kilometres of archived material and a library.
A site for mediation and promotion of archival heritage, with an exhibition
hall, conference room and educational area.
=> 12,000 to 15,000 visitors each year

4. A regional digital centre
 Annual digitisation programmes since 2004:
- 3.5 million digitised images including 2.3 million accessible
online
- More than 1,000 online catalogue
 Internet site created in 2004: http://archives.gironde.fr (45,000
visits/month) and its search engine GAEL.
 Implementation of an electronic archiving platform jointly with the
City of Bordeaux and Bordeaux Métropole since 2009

5. Why the Gironde Archives take part in
LoCloud ?
Previous participation in
 - regional networks:
- Aquitaine Digital knowledge bank (since 2006)
- ‘Estuaire’ network (2006-2011)
 European projects:
- Europeana Local (2008-2011)

6. Our contribution to LoCloud
 Testing the tools developed as part of the project: digital library,
addition and validation of metadata, web-harvesting OAI
 Exhibiting our digital archives on Europeana, with tools
developed by the technical partners of LoCloud
 Encouraging local players to participate in Europeana and
assisting them to exhibit their resources on Europeana

7. Pôle de la Mémoire Locale du Bourgeais
http://pml.bourg-en-gironde.fr/
 Public service provided by the local authority of Bourg-sur-Gironde:
- Local history resources and exchange of information
- Digital expertise: document digitisation
 Already included on LoCloud: postcards and oral/audiovisual
accounts collected by the PML (19th and 20th centuries)
- 700 items
https://pml-bourgeais.locloudhosting.net/
Gironde partners and LoCloud

8. Conservatoire de l’estuaire de la Gironde
http://www.estuairegironde.net/
 Local association working to promote cultural and heritage wealth
particularly via a Gironde Estuary interpretation centre in Blaye.
 Already included on LoCloud: photographic inventory of tools, boat parts,
documents about the collections in their museum (19th and 20th centuries)
- 200 items
http://ceg.locloudhosting.net/
Gironde partners and LoCloud

9. Société archéologique de Bordeaux
http://www.societe-archeologique-bordeaux.fr/
 Academic society founded in 1873, which studies, promotes and
participates in the protection of the archaeological, historical and
artistic heritage of Bordeaux and the Gironde, via public classes and
a journal. Conserves major documentary and archaeological
collections.
 To be included on LoCloud: books of drawings and sketches of
monuments by Emilien Piganeau (1833-1911), archaeologist and
founder member of the society.
- Approximately 1,800 items
Gironde partners and LoCloud

10. In Video Veritas
http://www.invideoveritas.com/
 Local rural association using light video production means to promote all
kinds of heritage, particularly old films.
 To be included on LoCloud: video collections showing local life, river
transport, architectural and local heritage (1st
half of 20th century)
- 5 items for approximately 15 minutes
Gironde partners and LoCloud

11. Musée National des Douanes
http://www.musee-douanes.fr/
 National museum about evolution and administration of customs
from Antiquity to present day and history of the constitution of the
French State
 To be included on LoCloud: collection of posters, notices, postcards,
engravings, photos (19th – 20th centuries)
- 100 items
Gironde partners and LoCloud

12. Feedback on use of LoCloud tools by partners
This feedback is still provisional, but :
 the standardisation of the data is specific and a lot of local partners
were not confident with it
 this is an area of the IT that is foreign to most of them, even for
those who used to work as ingeneers or developpers : the
technologies have changed
Overview of the project

13. Project still in progress and requiring regular assistance to our partners
Modification of the role of the local archives:
– Traditionally a reservoir of data
– Today an active advisor in documentary engineering for partners
located in the area
– Players in the promotion of heritage and local players who have been
anonymous until now
Thoughts in progress about the next stage of this experiment at the end of
project LoCloud (2016)
Overview of the project

14. Do you have any questions?
Contact
archives.gironde@cg33.fr
Thank you

15. LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's
ICT Policy Support Programme
The views and opinions expressed in this
presentation are the sole responsibility of the
authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of
the European Commission.