Le goût de l’archive numérique et les archives du web

Presentation (2023, April 04)

Historian cultures – the epistemology and methodology of history in the digital age - CulturHist

E-print/Working paper (2023)

CulturHist has its sights particularly on the community of researchers, who have done little to make the results and suggestions offered by the digital humanities their own. We want to focus the ... [more ▼]

CulturHist has its sights particularly on the community of researchers, who have done little to make the results and suggestions offered by the digital humanities their own. We want to focus the discussion on a cross cutting issue: the link to archives, as the raw material for writing an account of the past. The habit of working digitally of those historians who do not nowadays verbalise their computer practices is now widespread and is bolstered by policies aimed at making many digitised document collections available online. For example, a search using the Internet Archive wayback machine developed by a not-for-profit company which archives the Web, shows that, in January 2002, Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library of France), reported having 80 000 documents online, as compared to a little over 5.8 million on 4 September 2019. These days, it is possible to carry out international historical investigations without being in physical contact with a document, as was demonstrated as far back as 2011 by the Data mining with criminal intent project (Cohen et al.). This means that researchers often become data managers (Cartier et al.). Most researchers now practise these habits, and there is an urgent need to analyse them and adapt initial and further training in history in order to help students and historians grasp how ways of writing history are being changed. [less ▲]

Une informalité bien ordonnée ? La conversation académique sur Twitter

in Tracés. Revue de sciences humaines. (2021), (#21), 65-84

Twitter and social media do not have a good reputation. However, this reputation does not correspond, or only partly corresponds, to the experience of many researchers. Based on a corpus of tweets, we ... [more ▼]

Twitter and social media do not have a good reputation. However, this reputation does not correspond, or only partly corresponds, to the experience of many researchers. Based on a corpus of tweets, we argue in this article that academic Twitter reflects the material conditions of research in France, allows for greater visibility of researchers and consequently for the formation of atypical networks that does not occur in the more traditional places of academic socialization, all in a form of a “well-ordered” informality, partly constrained by the hierarchies of higher education and research. [less ▲]

Le goût de l'archive à l'ère numérique

in La gazette des Archives (2019), 2019-1(253),

En 1989, Arlette Farge publie Le goût de l’archive. Elle y décrit ce que tout·e his­to­rien·ne a pu vivre : une rela­tion intime aux sour­ces pri­mai­res – que l’on s’appro­prie phy­si­que­ment et ... [more ▼]

En 1989, Arlette Farge publie Le goût de l’archive. Elle y décrit ce que tout·e his­to­rien·ne a pu vivre : une rela­tion intime aux sour­ces pri­mai­res – que l’on s’appro­prie phy­si­que­ment et intel­lec­tuel­le­ment –, qui s’ins­crit dans un espace par­ti­cu­lier, la salle de lec­ture. Cette rela­tion intime condi­tionne pour partie l’inter­pré­ta­tion de nos sour­ces et le récit du passé que nous en tirons. Aujourd’hui, la mise en don­nées des sour­ces pri­mai­res bou­le­verse cette rela­tion intime : nous consul­tons des corpus en ligne, et nos séjours en cen­tres d’archi­ves sont trans­for­més par de nou­veaux usages, à l’exem­ple de l’appa­reil photo. Ce numéro de La Gazette des archi­ves est la pre­mière cap­ture d’un projet qui ques­tionne l’évolution de ce lien au docu­ment d’archi­ves. Archivistes et his­to­rien·­nes s’inter­ro­gent : à l’ère numé­ri­que, les archi­ves ont-elles tou­jours le même goût ? Ce numéro a été conjoin­te­ment coor­donné par Frédéric Clavert, pro­fes­seur assis­tant en his­toire contem­po­raine (uni­ver­sité du Luxembourg), et Caroline Muller, maî­tresse de confé­ren­ces en his­toire contem­po­raine (uni­ver­sité Rennes 2). [less ▲]