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Useful links

Below is a selection of interesting sites relative to the world of archiving in general,
and, more specifically, the world of research and our schools...

A specific space is reserved for new developments in the field of archives: presentation of a few themes.

In our schools:

• Report of a themed seminar 'documents and corporate memory' organised in April 2000 at INSA in Rouen by the Written Communication Research Group attended by professors from INT and Télécom Paris.
• Implementation of the 'cours chemin' project concerning the production and exploitation of multimedia educational archives is the result of a partnership between GET and the Fondation Louis Leprince Ringuet.

In general:

• THE reference on the subject: les Archives de France (Archives of France)
• the Association des archivistes de France (Association of French Archivists): AAF
• at worldwide level , the International Council on Archives (ICA), the Association internationale des archives francophones (International Association of French-Language Archives)
• at European level, the historical archives of the European Union
• other archives from public institutions ... including, in particular, the French Post Office
• bibliography
• a few examples of bodies presenting archives (outside the research context) :
  
  - CERN , UNESCO, Historic Archives of the European Community
  
  - grandes écoles: Polytechnique, Ponts & Chaussées (including a course from 1906 ),
  
  - companies: federating site 'histoires d'entreprises' ('company histories') Crédit Lyonnais (a good illustration of what can be done with old documents)

In terms of research:

• the CNRS and its scientific archives
  
  - It also focuses on archives and the law
  
  - It is interested in the definition of the term 'document' and 'electronic document'
• the INRIA , its archives
• the archives of the Institut Pasteur
• the archives at the French Ministry of National Education, Research and Technology,
• Scientific iconography archives (USA),
• the archives of Albert Einstein
  (the site entitled 'Einstein Papers Project' has more than 40,000 entries and gives access to almost 3000 high-definition images),
• Cooperation on archives of science in Europe