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Biblissima News

30.07.2020

Biblissima+: Observatory of Written Cultures from Clay to Print

Twelve research units in history, literature, philology, archaeology, materials sciences and digital and computational humanities, the GED of the Condorcet Campus, the Service Interministériel des Archives de France, the Archives Nationales and the TEKLIA company are joining forces to build Biblissima+.
07.07.2020

Initiale and Mandragore: the iconography of the manuscripts from French libraries in the Biblissima Portal

More than 306,000 records of illuminations and decoration from the Mandragore and Initiale iconographic databases can now be searched and consulted together in the Biblissima Portal.
25.06.2020

Launch of ThecaeLab, an online scientific publishing laboratory

ThecaeLab is an online publishing laboratory of digital corpora in XML-TEI of ancient inventories of manuscripts and printed books built at the Maison de la recherche en sciences humaines (Pôle Document numérique) of the University of Caen.
16.06.2020

New version of Eulexis with the greek dictionary Bailly 2020

Release of the new version of Eulexis including the Greek-French dictionary Bailly 2020, both in the desktop and online versions.
19.05.2020

Enrichments of the IIIF-Collections search engine

IIIF-Collections, the search engine for digitized and interoperable manuscripts and rare books, now aggregates data from 15 digital libraries and allows a federated search on more than 73,000 records.
05.03.2020

Publication of the Biblissima authority file of shelfmarks of manuscripts and early printed books

The Biblissima team is publishing online the authority file of shelfmarks of manuscripts and early printed books on its platform data.biblissima.fr.
26.09.2019

Mieux diffuser et valoriser ses images sur le Web grâce aux standards IIIF

Materials from a IIIF workshop organized at the 9th Médici event (September 25th, 2019)
27.06.2019

Digital Manuscripts Without Borders: A Discovery Platform of Manuscripts and Rare Books

Presentation of the Biblissima IIIF-Collections prototype by Régis Robineau at the 2019 IIIF Conference in Göttingen (26.06.2019)

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