Digital Activities

 Building up knowledge and skills

  1. Since 2007: leading the TraduXio project, an open source, freeware, online translation workbench based on user cooperation for the precise translation of cultural texts (private beta), (http://traduxio.hypertopic.org).

    • Project management: Zanchin NGO (provisions of the law 1901).

    • Funding: UNESCO, International Organisation of La Francophonie, General Delegation for the French language and languages in France. Budget: 25.000 € (2009), 100.000 € (estimation for 2010). Various other institutional partners.

    • Head of technologies: Tech-Cico labs, Troyes University of Technology, France.

    • List of past and future Presentations

  2. Since 2008: building up and managing the new website (Cms: Drupal) of the Giraf NGO, located on the Ways platform (http:/giraf-iffd.ways.org). User training sessions.

  3. Workshops

“Web participatif (dit “Web 2.0”) et sciences de la culture” (Online Cooperation with New Web Tools (so called Web 2.0) for Cultural Sciences), Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin, November 2007; CEFRES (French Centre for Research in Social Sciences) Prague, 28 February 2008.

Presentations

  • “Le cas Wikipédia” (Talking about Wikipedia), seminar on new forms of online exchange: knowledge, economy, law, organised by D. Bourcier (research group “Governance and technologies”), Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin (with M. Foglia). Article “Portrait de l’intellectuel en DJ” (Portrait of the Intellectual as a DJ), March 2008, La vie des idées.
  • «Scholarly Translation meets Web 2.0»,workshop: “Academia 2.0 and Beyond”, 20-23 May 2008, Carry-le-Rouet (France).
  • “Université 2.0: l'utilisation des ressources numériques pour l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche” (University 2.0: Using Web and Computer based Tools in Education and Research), National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz, by invitation of the French Embassy in Bolivia, september 2008. Online video (Spanish).
  • “Les technologies numériques au service de la diversité linguistique et culturelle” (Promoting Diversity of Language and Culture with Web Tools), Fascination Planet Earth. Biodiversity-Interculturalism-Ethics in Science), Paris, organised by the Humboldt Foundation and the French-German University (and: Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin, Univ. Ivry Val d’Essone, Centre for Legal History (UMR 8025 CNRS/Univ. Lille 2), Sophiapol laboratory (EA 3932, Univ. Paris X Nanterre), Nov. 2008.
  • December 2-3d 2008, "Le cosmopolitisme numérique: une utopie concrète pour l'Europe culturelle? (Digital Cosmopolitism: a tangible utopia for European Culture?), conference L'Europe et ses cultures: l'en deçà ou l'au-delà d'un fédéralisme supranational? (Cultures in Europe: Anywhere near Supranational Federalism?)", Humboldt University in Berlin.

  • April 1st, 2009, “Coopération franco-allemande 2.0 – Présentation de deux outils numériques” (French-German Cooperation 2.0 –Two web tools introduced (Giraf website, translation workbench TraduXio), Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin.

  Blogs

Summaries, reviews (pre-print), science news flashes, active since 2009.

 

 

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