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Calames — the Catalogue en Ligne des Archives et des Manuscrits de l'Enseignement Supérieur (Online Catalogue of Higher Education Archives and Manuscripts) — is a union catalogue developed and maintained by the Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur (ABES) in France. It provides centralized online access to descriptions of archival fonds and manuscript collections held by some sixty member institutions across French higher education and national research.
The Calames project grew out of two initiatives undertaken by ABES from 2002 onward. Between 2002 and 2008, ABES participated in the retrospective conversion of the Catalogue Général des Manuscrits (CGM) of French public libraries, encoding approximately 70,000 pages of manuscript descriptions in EAD (Encoded Archival Description) XML format. A second initiative in 2006–2007 converted the Palme directory of contemporary French literary manuscripts into EAD. Development of the Calames application was completed in November 2007, and the public-facing catalogue launched on December 1, 2007. Member institutions began cataloguing in Spring 2008.
Calames covers archives and manuscripts held by French universities, national institutions such as the Institut de France and the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, and research institutions including the Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet and Sciences Po Paris. The catalogue spans all subject areas in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Holdings range from medieval manuscripts to contemporary literary papers, political archives, and institutional records. Each member institution provides a descriptive profile listing its collections and associated finding aids.
Calames is freely accessible online at calames.abes.fr. Users can search by keyword, browse by institution, and locate documents with permanent URL citations. The Calames Plus feature allows authenticated users to annotate records and propose additional bibliographic references. Digitized items can be viewed directly when institutions have associated images with catalogue records. In-person consultation must be arranged directly with each holding institution.
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