The project > Stage 3 of a series of workshop

The workshop will be held from 3 June to 8 June 2024 in Bagnères-de-Bigorre and Campans in the Hautes Pyréennées region.

The Haut Adour workshop follows on from an initial workshop held from 28 June to 2 July 2021 at Royaumont Abbey (Asnières-sur-Oise, Val d'Oise), and a second workshop held from 27 June to 1 July 2022 south of Limoges in the Château de Ligoure (Commune du Vigen, Haute-Vienne).

These first two meetings on geohistory and the digital humanities were set up as part of the development of the Fabrique numérique du passé open data platform, and discussions on the processing chain and the opening up of geohistorical data (https://www.fabriquenumeriquedupasse.fr/) conducted as part of the IR* uma-Num Projects Time Machine Consortium (Cst PTM).

Our ambition was to question and rethink the digital information chain in the historical sciences.

Both events brought together between forty and fifty participants from various research units and disciplines (geographers, archaeologists, historians, mathematicians, statisticians, geomaticians, planners, etc.) for a week of sharing and collective reflection on digital geohistorical data (see the Royaumont programme, see the Ligoure programme).

The Royaumont workshop looked at the theoretical aspects of the life cycle of geohistorical data, while the Ligoure workshop took a more practical approach, combining theoretical approaches with long periods of hands-on experience designed as collective learning tools. For each stage of the digital data life cycle, from acquisition to dissemination, the aim of the workshops held in recent years has been to alternate between two phases: the first consisting of presentations by experts, discussed in the form of participatory seminars; the second organised in the form of immersive workshops, ranging from feedback to the pooling of know-how, and even collective experimentation.

This principle once again underpins the third edition of our workshop, and has even been strengthened by new arrangements involving local associations and residents.