E-corpus

E-corpus was a collective heritage digital platform founded in 2009 in France by the Centre de Conservation du Livre. Its name is sometimes written in lowercase: e-corpus.[1][2][3][4][5] It went offline in September 2016.

Introduction

E-corpus makes known, catalogs, circulates and offers access to many millions of digital documents of all types: texts (manuscripts, archives, books, magazines) as well as iconographic heritage and cultural objects (photos, prints and engravings, sound recordings, videos, works of art). Its interface is available in several languages (French, English, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, Catalan and Italian).

The various partners — principally libraires, museums or archives — deposit their content on this basis.

The description of the documents is hierarchical with metadata in the XML-EAD format, which can then be converted into other formats, notably into Dublin Core. An OAI-PMH archive permits interoperability with other platforms (Isidore (rechercheisidore.fr), Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France), and Google Books).

See also

References

  1. ^ Canart, Paul Monseigneur; Giordano, Carol (January 1, 2011). "Quand des établissements de conservation du patrimoine mobilier se retrouvent sur www.e-corpus.org" [When establishments for the conservation of movable heritage are found on www.e-corpus.org]. Bulletin des bibliothèques de France (in French). Retrieved March 16, 2026.
  2. ^ Vaufrey, Christine (May 5, 2010). "E-Corpus, bibliothèque patrimoniale collective, en accès libre" [E-Corpus, a freely accessible library of collective heritage]. Thot Cursus (in French). Retrieved March 16, 2026.
  3. ^ "E-Corpus une bibliothèque numérique et collective". ActuaLitté.com (in French). October 29, 2009. Retrieved March 16, 2026.
  4. ^ Ginouvès, Véronique (19 September 2010). "E-Corpus". Aldébaran: Lire et repérer les sciences humaines sur Internet (in French). ISSN 2258-2738.
  5. ^ "E-corpus, une bibliothèque numérique collective et patrimoniale, en Europe et en Méditerranée. « mediakitab". zinclafriche.org (in French). June 5, 2012. Archived from the original on June 1, 2014. Retrieved March 16, 2026.