Currently, the French multidisciplinary open archive HAL hosts research data and supplementary materials as annexes. In an attempt to define guidelines for this infrastructure, this thesis presents a state of the art of the stakeholders and issues linked to research dat...

In the textual stories of polytheistic religion we see patterns of character traits, images and situations that seem to repeat themselves across the barriers of time and space. In search of these patterns one could wish for a method for collecting and comparing these sm...

The scientific and academic archives in humanities are, amongst the French higher education system, a quite new matter. This essay is a report of the situation of those archives, especially the ways of defining and organizing them.; Les archives scientifiques sont des a...

As a result of technological obsolescence, nowadays long-term archiving proves to be unavoidable and represents an issue in the field of Higher Education and Research. Nevertheless, long-term preservation requires specific skills and technics, as it implies human and fi...