Mathdoc participated in several meetings with the Service inter-établissements de coopération documentaire, inter-institutional documentary cooperation department (SICD) for the Grenoble site in the early 2010s with the aim of developing a site collections policy. Mathdoc, which works in solidarity with digitisation projects, shared the budget of a common framework contract with SICD for Numdam. This set the stage for the following two projects that were carried out.
Géologie Alpine
Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), the observatory unit linked to Université Joseph Fourier, asked Mathdoc to add the journal Géologie Alpine to the Numdam III production chain. This led to cooperation with the head of the Scientific and Technical Information Department of OSUG, both for the drafting of the specifications and for production controls and corrections. Mathdoc therefore had to make a large number of corrections and additions prior to the online release. The journal is distributed via a website dedicated to Alpine geology at the Grenoble Observatory currently administered by Mathdoc.
This website contains digitised articles from the journal Géologie Alpine, formerly known as Travaux du Laboratoire de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Grenoble. The entire publication period, from 1890 to 2001, has been digitised. The period covered provides a better understanding of the arrangement of rocks and the structures affecting them, enabling the history and processes involved to be reconstructed. All articles are freely accessible and available in PDF format. In addition to the full text, there are also bibliographical references for each article, as well as plates and figures that have been digitised in colour or greyscale.
Revue d'Écologie Alpine
In 2012, as part of a development project related to the scientific and technical heritage of Université Joseph Fourier (UJF), funded by the Department of Research and Technology Transfer (DRV), Mathdoc digitised Revue d’Écologie Alpine, a journal published by the Alpine Ecology Laboratory (LECA) and Jardin du Lautaret. Mathdoc distributes this collection on a dedicated website. It provides access to numerous vegetation maps from the plant biology laboratory of Professor Paul Ozenda (Université de Grenoble, 1963-1988).
The Revue d’Ecologie Alpine published research conducted by the laboratory and other researchers on mapping vegetation in the Alps (French, Italian and Austrian) and other mountains (Massif Central, Nepal, etc.). The journal then expanded to include ecological studies beyond simple vegetation. Funded by the university and the CNRS, 1,000 copies were printed and exchanged with numerous laboratories and universities.
In addition to the journals, the collection of vegetation maps and ecological maps published in this journal is a remarkable feature of these publications. Their value lies in the fact that they represent a heritage of the university’s history as well as a scientific tool for providing information on changes in vegetation over the past 30 or 40 years.
Digitisation and online release
The activities involved in the preparation and production phases were similar to those of the Numdam programme. However, the online phase required the use of different tools to present the maps and the links between the articles and the maps. It also made it possible to test technologies different from those used on the numdam.org platform. The website was therefore developed in Python in the Django framework with the SolR search engine.
Volumetry
Journal title (publication period covered) | Volumes | Articles | Pages | Plates |
Documents for the Vegetation map of the Alps (1963-1972) | 10 | 68 | 1763 | 73 |
Ecological Mapping Documents (1973-1988) | 22 | 165 | 2489 | 76 |
Revue d’Ecologie Alpine (1991-1997) | 4 | 28 | 435 | 30 |
Total | 36 | 261 | 4687 | 179 |