Scientific Information, Archives and Heritage Department
Missions
The department's main missions are:
- Advising and assisting departments with the management of their documents (paper and electronic)
- Collecting administrative and scientific archives when they are no longer of immediate use to departments
- Classifying and organizing archive holdings
- Material conservation of archives
- Promoting and communicating the department's documents
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- Physical conservation of archives
- Valorization and communication of documents for Inalco's internal needs, as well as for the outside public
- Definition and implementation of Inalco's open science policy in close collaboration with the Dirved and the Vice-Presidency for Research
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Activities
Advice
- Accompaniment in the day-to-day management of documents and in the preparation of deposits
- Training and awareness-raising in archiving
Collection
- Taking charge of archival deposits
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- Elimination of archives whose legal retention period has expired
- Drafting of retention guidelines (management tables)
Classification
- Classification and detailed description of collections of notable historical or scientific interest
- Updating the status of the Institute's holdings
Conservation
- Management of storage spaces and monitoring of physical conservation conditions
Valorization
- Research and communication of archives
- Reception of the public for document consultation
- Digitization of scientific archives for dissemination on the internet
- Coordination of the scientific archive digitization program (D-SAAS)
- Participation in events (Journées du patrimoine, symposiums ...)
Open science
- Monitoring the national and international context
- Establishing collaborations and partnerships
- Representing Inalco at the HAL Partners Assembly and at the CPU Open Science Referents group
- Establishing official documents (charter, guides, roadmaps, etc..) in conjunction with the Inalco Presidency
- Actions to raise awareness and relay information
- Organization of a seminar with the Doctoral School
- Accompaniment of the D-PaRSAS
Status of holdings
Inalco's archives are made up of documents whose subject, form and medium are varied: correspondence, minutes of proceedings, study booklets, examination papers, personnel files, photographs, records, research materials, plans. The oldest fonds (1795-1945) were transferred to the Archives nationales in compliance with public archive regulations.
Archives institutionnelles
Archives nationales
- Inventory of the archives of the Ecole nationale des langues vivantes 1764/1944
- Detailed digital directory of the DRH archives
- Detailed directory of the Presidency archives 1871/2005
- Detailed directory of the DGS archives 1894/2003
- Detailed Directory plans and buildings of 2 and 4 rue de Lille 1886/1965
Inalco
(fonds de la présidence, fonds du secrétariat général, fonds de la direction des études)
Private archives
Complementary sources
Archives from other institutions that also document the history of Inalco. A non-exhaustive list of these complementary sources is available[i1]