Biblissima Resources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Search for biblical references in ancient Christian literature.

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.

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.

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

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+.

Platform for automated transcription of handwritten sources using machine learning techniques

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Stylometry tool.

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.

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).