Combining historical heritage and industrial innovation, Arts et Métiers access to its digitized works from its historical collections (courses, journals, drawings, etc.) on a website. The aim is to provide professionals and the general public with access to knowledge about the history of technology and industrial engineering.
Since 2009, Arts et Métiers committed to promoting its written cultural heritage. Its digital heritage library presents the chosen approaches to disseminating digitized collections.
It provides access to a selection of previously unpublished documents on the history of education, the history of technology, and industrial engineering, supplemented by an iconographic collection. Courses, journals, technical drawing albums, and old photographs of the institution are made available to the general public in the form of digital files that are free of copyright, downloadable, and shareable on social media.
Since 2009, four digitization campaigns have been carried out. Documents such as Armengaud's "Publication industrielle des machines-outils" (Industrial Publication of Machine Tools) (a former student at the Châlons campus in 1825) and printed materials on the history of science and technology are available for consultation, as are some thirty courses and albums of drawings from the old collections of the Aix-en-Provence, Angers, and Châlons campuses. The "Bulletin technologique de la société des anciens élèves des Ecoles NationalesArts et Métiers (Technological Bulletin of the Society of Former Students of the National Schools of Arts and Crafts), one of the largest French technical periodicals of the late 19th century (1883 to 1914) and which played a leading scientific role, has also been digitized in its entirety.
" We are delighted to present our digital library and make available the wealth of our cultural heritage, which traces the historyArts et Métiers industrial innovation over the past 250 years," comments Laurent Carraro, Director GeneralArts et Métiers. " To date, the sites in Aix-en-Provence, Angers, Châlons, and Cluny offer the general public historical documents dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Gradually, all of our campuses will be included. "
This project was carried out with the support of the Arts et Métiers Foundation.
For Roger Stanchina, its president, " in accordance with its statutes, the Arts et Métiers Foundation Arts et Métiers the promotion of France's scientific, technological, and industrial heritage associated with the work of engineers. After creating the Arts et Métiers archives Arts et Métiers Liancourt, now recognized at the level of the National Archives, it was essential that the Foundation be able to help the institution showcase its documentary collections, which trace the technical developments of our country since the school's creation. These rich archives ofArts et Métiers the Arts et Métiers Foundation further Arts et Métiers the training and technologyArts et Métiers."
