{"id":11799,"date":"2026-07-10T12:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/?p=11799"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:18:00","slug":"geodesic-cnrs-collective-crystal-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/en\/geodesic-cnrs-collective-crystal-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Geodesic: CNRS Collective Crystal 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Geodesic digital library has received the CNRS 2026 Collective Crystal Award.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Geodesic, developed by Mathdoc, is an open-access digital library dedicated to the global mathematical community. Launched in 2025, it now offers more than 472,000 mathematical documents, collected from 42 different sources. <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/cristal-217x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"cristal 217x300\" class=\"wp-image-11790\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpes.cnrs.fr\/fr\/personne\/geodesic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNRS\u2019s \u2018Cristal Collectif\u2019 award<\/a> recognises teams of engineers and technicians who have carried out projects characterised by particularly outstanding technical expertise, a collaborative approach, practical applications, innovation and impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Cristal collectif award thus recognises the excellence of the work carried out by the Geodesic team, which is committed to the international open-access dissemination of mathematical research findings and is fully aligned with the open science approach promoted by the CNRS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Geodesic team<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2026 Cristal Collectif award for Geodesic has been attributed to:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Philippe Besnier (Mathdoc)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sacha Besombes (Mathdoc)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thierry Bouche(Institut Fourier)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Taban Danei (Mathdoc)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Olivier Labbe (Mathdoc)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Franck Lontin (Mathdoc)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>C\u00e9line Smith (Mathdoc)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>C\u00e9line Talbi (Mathdoc)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gr\u00e9gory Thureau (IRMA, RNBM)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Olaf Teschke (FIZ Karlsruhe)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nathan Tien You (Mathdoc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Geodesic<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Initially funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouvrirlascience.fr\/geodesic\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ouvrirlascience.fr\/geodesic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Fund for Open Science<\/a>, and with specific support from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insmi.cnrs.fr\/fr\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.insmi.cnrs.fr\/fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNRS Math\u00e9matiques<\/a>, Geodesic was launched in 2025.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Geodesic is a digital library intended for the international mathematical community. Its aim is to provide researchers with the shortest route to open-access articles. Geodesic compiles complete collections of journals, which users can browse, thereby offering a single point of access to a vast corpus of documents: journal articles, conference and seminar proceedings, theses and books.  <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-3e41869c wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-background-color has-background has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/geodesic.mathdoc.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Geodesic<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Geodesic\u2019s sources are rigorously selected with the support of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnbm.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rnbm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">R\u00e9seau National des Biblioth\u00e8ques de Math\u00e9matiques (RNBM)<\/a> to ensure the reliability and quality of the resources provided. The Geodesic team also enhances the metadata for the documents by drawing on reference databases, in particular the <a href=\"https:\/\/zbmath.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/zbmath.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">zbMATH Open<\/a> bibliographic database, operated by FIZ Karlsruhe. Interoperability and free circulation of mathematical research results are thus at the heart of the project.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Geodesic is now continuing to expand its collections by regularly incorporating new sources of documents.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geodesic.mathdoc.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/geodesic.jpg\" alt=\"geodesic\" class=\"wp-image-11793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/geodesic.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/geodesic-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/geodesic-768x250.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Geodesic digital library has received the CNRS 2026 Collective Crystal Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"Geodesic: CNRS Collective Crystal 2026","_seopress_titles_desc":"The Geodesic digital library has received the CNRS 2026 Collective Crystal Award.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11799"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11805,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions\/11805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdoc.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}