For historian Annette Becker, a specialist in the First World War, all these initiatives confirm " the memorial and emotional turn" taken by France since the Great Collection of individual archives organized during the centenary of the Great War, and those organized after the attacks of 2015 and 2016. "It was time that we understood that it is not only the texts that count during a great event. The closer we get to the everyday, the better we understand life. The role of the historian is to analyze everything together.
Yves Rozenholc, professor in data sciences at the University of Paris-Descartes, promotes the project of a participative virtual museum named Covid-19 Museum.
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"To give a memory to this unique moment in the history of humanity
On April 21, the MUCEM launched a call for collections "of the traces of this unprecedented moment. Propose the objects or documents that for you symbolize, embody, translate your confined daily life. What objects do you think speak to the situation in which you live, work, spend time or teach your children? What objects translate the way you organize your outings, your relationships with others, close or far, at home and abroad, in France or abroad?"The European House of Photography launched a competition "Open Window" which invited to stage this object of the everyday life that is the window.
The Forum des images launched a call for videos. To participate, you had to film a moment of life in these times of confinement in less than a minute from your home or window.
The Club Innovation et culture France (CLIC France) has listed the initiatives of museums and cultural places which tried "to give a memory to this unique moment of the history of humanity".
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The BNF saves the memory of confinement on the Internet
As of March 17, the digital legal deposit team at the National Library of France (BNF) began archiving online content related to Covid and containment: websites, blogs, containment diaries, content posted on social networks, YouTube videos. The permanent digital legal deposit team has been reinforced by the watchful eye of 50 additional librarians. A network of correspondents from 26 territorial libraries and archive services has been activated, for a local refinement of the documents collectedAbout 40 percent of this coronavirus content comes from social networks, librarians estimate. The size of this collection is expected to be between 8 and 10 terabytes of data, depending on the duration of the outbreak.
This curation work dedicated to the coronavirus stored on the BNF's servers will be shared with the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) to contribute to the international archiving Novel Coronavirus outbreak,Références :
launched in February 2020 in association with Internet Archive. A collective memory of the health crisis in which some thirty libraries around the world are participating.
How museums, archives and the BNF "archive" and "document" the health crisis
For historian Annette Becker, a specialist in the First World War, all these initiatives confirm " the memorial and emotional turn" taken by France since the Great Collection of individual archives organized during the centenary of the Great War, and those organized after the attacks of 2015 and 2016. "It was time that we understood that it is not only the texts that count during a great event. The closer we get to the everyday, the better we understand life. The role of the historian is to analyze everything together.
Yves Rozenholc, professor in data sciences at the University of Paris-Descartes, promotes the project of a participative virtual museum named Covid-19 Museum.
Référence :
"To give a memory to this unique moment in the history of humanity
On April 21, the MUCEM launched a call for collections "of the traces of this unprecedented moment. Propose the objects or documents that for you symbolize, embody, translate your confined daily life. What objects do you think speak to the situation in which you live, work, spend time or teach your children? What objects translate the way you organize your outings, your relationships with others, close or far, at home and abroad, in France or abroad?"The European House of Photography launched a competition "Open Window" which invited to stage this object of the everyday life that is the window.
The Forum des images launched a call for videos. To participate, you had to film a moment of life in these times of confinement in less than a minute from your home or window.
The Club Innovation et culture France (CLIC France) has listed the initiatives of museums and cultural places which tried "to give a memory to this unique moment of the history of humanity".
Référence :
The BNF saves the memory of confinement on the Internet
As of March 17, the digital legal deposit team at the National Library of France (BNF) began archiving online content related to Covid and containment: websites, blogs, containment diaries, content posted on social networks, YouTube videos. The permanent digital legal deposit team has been reinforced by the watchful eye of 50 additional librarians. A network of correspondents from 26 territorial libraries and archive services has been activated, for a local refinement of the documents collectedAbout 40 percent of this coronavirus content comes from social networks, librarians estimate. The size of this collection is expected to be between 8 and 10 terabytes of data, depending on the duration of the outbreak.
This curation work dedicated to the coronavirus stored on the BNF's servers will be shared with the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) to contribute to the international archiving Novel Coronavirus outbreak,Références :
launched in February 2020 in association with Internet Archive. A collective memory of the health crisis in which some thirty libraries around the world are participating.
