CONSORTIUM
ARCHIVES
DES ETHNOLOGUES

Preservation, management and dissemination
of materials collected during anthropological fieldwork

A New Journey Through Shared Ethnological Archives
For Understanding Anthropology

The "Archives Des Ethnologues", A Multifaceted Consortium

Véronique Ginouvès (MMSH), Fabrice Melka (IMAF)

https://ethnologia.hypotheses.org

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COLLECT

Support for the
collection surveying,
the arrangement and
the preservation of
materials produced and
collected by French
anthropologists (notes,
fieldbooks, photographs,
films or sound recordings)

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DOCUMENT

Archival work and data
documentation:
classification, description,
indexation, production of
finding aids and of
document catalogues.
Converging efforts in the
standardization of data
and metadata.
Highlighting the
geolocation of data.

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Calames: online catalogue
of archives and manuscripts
in French university
and research libraries

Respect du fonds and provenance:
Finding aid of the Marceau Gast fonds (EAD)

Ganoub: sound archive database

Maison Méditerranéenne
des Sciences de l'Homme (MMSH)

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Calames: online catalogue
of archives and manuscripts
in French university
and research libraries

Archival description:
Item "La jeune fille voyageuse"
in context (EAD)

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Nakala: interoperable and secure
service for depositing all types
of data

Access to the metadata and the audio
file of "La jeune fille voyageuse"
(Persistent IDentifier, Triple Store,
OAI-PMH)

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Isidore: search engine
Classify, enrich and link "La jeune fille
voyageuse" using vocabularies
(web portal, API, SPARQL endpoint)

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ACCESS
AND REUSE

Digitize and deposit data,
improving the way in
which this material is
traced and accessed.
Diversify access, explore
legal and ethical issues in
dissemination of
research data.
Participatory scientific
projects.

Cartography of
fieldwork sites

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Telemeta: Open web audio platform
Annotations through sound player

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Transcrire: online
collaborative transcription tool
Fieldbooks projects

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CONNECT

Facilitate the exchange of
metadata and its
harvesting. Align, enrich,
link data with
vocabularies using
national tools and
services (Huma-Num,
Abes) to increase
interoperability.

Europeana collections
The Marceau Gast photos (EDM metadata)

IdRef (Identifiers and Referentials)
an authority database for the
French higher education community

Linking Marceau Gast with catalogues,
other archives and publications

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