Biblissima Resources

This page lists all the resources and tools developed and maintained by Biblissima's founding partners that fall within the scope of the two ÉquipEx, Biblissima (2012-2021) and Biblissima+ (2021-2029), as well as those produced within the framework of the Biblissima partner projects.

The list below includes digital libraries of manuscripts and early printed books, various types of catalogues and scientific databases, specialised corpora and textual editions, as well as resources that can be found in the Biblissima toolkit.

Many of these resources are intended to be integrated or linked to the Biblissima portal. Some of them were integrated during the first phase of the EquipEx (2012-2021), others will be treated during the second one (2021-2029).

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27 resources displayed
Resource name Image Description Resource type Partner Partner project or cluster
Archetype copie d'écran

Archetype (formerly known as 'The DigiPal Framework') is freely-available generalised software for the online presentation of images with structured annotations and data. Designed primarily for the palaeographical analysis of handwriting, it allows users to search for, view, and organise detailed characteristics of handwriting or other material in both verbal and visual form.

Tool / service AOrOc

Cluster 4 – In-depth treatment of graphic systems and document analysis

Arkindex copie d'écran

A complete document processing platform developed by Teklia. It offers optical character recognition software (printed or handwritten) to extract text, analyze the content, then classify and index data according to your own setup.

Tool / service Teklia, IRHT-CNRS

Cluster 3 – Artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and handwriting recognition

Biblissima Authority Files copie d'écran data.biblissima

Collaborative platform for managing and publishing the Biblissima+ authority files, powered by Wikibase software. Its primary aim is to create a hub of identifiers and structured, accessible, interoperable and reusable data. It plays a central role in ensuring the interoperability of the resources processed as part of Biblissima+, while enabling other projects to benefit from the data reconciliation and harmonisation work carried out in this area.

Tool / service Biblissima+ Portal Team

Biblissima Portal copie d'écran portail biblissima

Point d'entrée unique sur le patrimoine des cultures écrites anciennes de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance. Il agrège des ressources électroniques hétérogènes produites par les partenaires du consortium Biblissima (2012-2021) puis Biblissima+ (2021-2029). Il a pour but de mettre en interopérabilité collections patrimoniales, archives de la recherche et littérature scientifique.

Tool / service Biblissima+ Portal Team

BnF Authority Files copie d'écran catalogue bnf

Authority records of persons, organisations, works, concepts and geographical names from the BnF's General Catalogue.

Tool / service BnF

Chronocarto copie d'écran chronocarto

Open online geographic information system, aiming at free access to interoperable archaeological and epigraphical data, allowing their mapping at small, medium and large scales.

Tool / service AOrOc

Citations bibliques dans les textes patristiques (BIBLINDEX) copie d'écran biblindex citations bibliques

Search for biblical references in ancient Christian literature.

Tool / service HiSoMA

Cluster 7 – Text interoperability and analysis

Collatinus copie d'écran collatinus

This lemmatisation and morphological analysis tool for Latin texts is available for Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux. Lemmatise a single word or a whole text in Latin, translate the lemmas using the bundled Latin translation dictionaries, and display the corresponding syllable quantities and flexion.

Tool / service Biblissima+ Portal Team

Cluster 7 – Text interoperability and analysis

Collatinus-web copie d'écran collatinus web

Online version of Collatinus, a lemmatiser and morphological analyser for Latin texts. Use it to look up a word in 6 Latin dictionaries, to inflect a lemma, or to scan, lemmatise or analyse the morphology of a Latin text.

Tool / service Biblissima+ Portal Team

Cluster 7 – Text interoperability and analysis

Correspondances bibliques (BIBLINDEX) copie d'écran biblindex correspondances bibliques

Correspondences between the texts of aligned multilingual Bibles (Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syriac, French, English).

Tool / service HiSoMA

Cluster 7 – Text interoperability and analysis

Documentation Biblissima+ copie d'écran doc.biblissima.fr

Technical documentation of the Biblissima+ digital infrastructure published under an open licence by the Biblissima+ Portal team. It includes a vademecum describing the requirements and procedures for integrating and updating data in the infrastructure, general documentation about IIIF standards, and a series of pages on the various APIs provided by Biblissima+.

Tool / service Biblissima+ Portal Team

eScriptorium copie d'écran escriptorium

Platform for automated transcription of handwritten sources using machine learning techniques

Tool / service AOrOc

Cluster 3 – Artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and handwriting recognition
Cluster 4 – In-depth treatment of graphic systems and document analysis

Eulexis copie d'écran eulexis

Online lemmatiser of Ancient Greek texts: use it to look up terms in Ancient Greek dictionaries, check the flexion of a lemma, and lemmatise a Greek text. Eulexis is developed by Philippe Verkerk, with support from the Biblissima team.

Tool / service Biblissima+ Portal Team

Cluster 7 – Text interoperability and analysis

Eulexis-web copie d'écran eulexis web

Web version of the lemmatization software for ancient Greek texts. It allows you to search for a term in Greek dictionaries, to inflect a lemma and to lemmatise a text. Eulexis-web was developed by Philippe Verkerk with the help of the Biblissima portal team.

Tool / service Biblissima+ Portal Team

Cluster 7 – Text interoperability and analysis

Extractor

Application to isolate iconographical elements in a manuscript, and compare them from one manuscript to another

Tool / service IRHT-CNRS

Cluster 3 – Artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and handwriting recognition

Filigranes pour tous copie d'écran filigranes pour tous

Research project on watermarks on paper in the medieval and modern West and on the processes of their optical shape recognition. The goal is to create a smartphone application that allows you to take a photo of a watermark, download it and obtain its description, through an image-identification system.

Tool / service IRHT-CNRS, Centre Jean Mabillon-EnC, Archives nationales

Cluster 3 – Artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and handwriting recognition

Guide to Cataloguing Bookbindings copie d'écran bibnum reliures

This guide to cataloguing medieval and early modern bookbindings includes TEI schemas for describing the bindings, developed by the Réserve des livres rares at the BnF in cooperation with the École nationale des chartes. Available for anyone to use, this tool will be particularly useful for cultural heritage institutions whose collections include old books.

Tool / service BnF, Centre Jean Mabillon-EnC

IIIF@Biblissima copie d'écran IIIF@Biblissima

Website that presents the implementations and services developed by Biblissima+ around the IIIF standards for the interoperability of images, in particular the actions carried out for French archives within the framework of Biblissima+ cluster 1.

Tool / service Biblissima+ Portal Team

Cluster 1 – Acquisition of interoperable source corpora

Interactive Album of Medieval Palaeography copie d'écran du site

A collection of transcription exercises which provide students and amateurs who wish to improve their skills with the opportunity to train themselves in the practical application of palaeography: reading manuscript texts.

Tool / service CIHAM

Kraken copie d'écran kraken

Kraken is a turn-key OCR and layout analysis system optimized for historical and non-Latin script materials.

Tool / service AOrOc

Cluster 3 – Artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and handwriting recognition
Cluster 4 – In-depth treatment of graphic systems and document analysis

MaX copie d'écran max

XML Display Engine that relies on BaseX as the XML database engine, and RESTXQ and XSLT technologies. MaX is a generic and extensible tool capable of producing reading interfaces for all XML standards, and coming with a number of modules to support TEI.

Tool / service MRSH Caen

Cluster 5 – Editing sources in TEI

mirador3-biblissima copie d'écran mirador3-biblissima

Source code of the Mirador instance used on the Biblissima portal, including adaptations to the viewer parameters and a number of plugins to extend Mirador's core functionality.

Tool / service Biblissima+ Portal Team

Cluster 1 – Acquisition of interoperable source corpora

MultiPal copie d'écran multipal

Interactive tutorial in palaeography to learn how to decipher original manuscripts, documents and inscriptions in the full range of ancient and medieval scripts and languages.

Tool / service SAPRAT-EPHE

Cluster 4 – In-depth treatment of graphic systems and document analysis

Pyrrha copie d'écran pyrrha

Post-correction lemmatisation application for Greek, Classical Latin and Old French.

Tool / service Centre Jean Mabillon-EnC

Cluster 7 – Text interoperability and analysis

SuperStyl copie d'écran superstyl

Stylometry tool.

Tool / service Centre Jean Mabillon-EnC

Cluster 7 – Text interoperability and analysis

Theleme copie d'écran theleme

Techniques pour l’Historien en Ligne : Etudes, Manuels, Exercices. This portal provides access to a number of educational tools (studies, manuals, exercises) designed to be an introduction for students and a wider audience to the different scientific methods and techniques used in historical research.

Tool / service Centre Jean Mabillon-EnC

XML Editing Tools copie d'écran outils xml

XML editing tools and environments (EAD and TEI) to work on ancient sources, developed by the Pôle Document numérique of the MRSH (University of Caen-Normandie).

Tool / service MRSH Caen, CRAHAM

Cluster 5 – Editing sources in TEI