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Dossiers

Base your chronology of performances on a region, an institution, a career, or a work. The dossier is the completed form of a publication in Dezède: it is a corpus of events or images, created and compiled by one or several scientific editors who ensure(s) the production of it. The aim of the events dossier is to reconstruct the schedules of performances in a geographical area and period of time, to establish the programming of an institution, to follow the career of a performer, singer or actor, or to follow the dissemination and reception of a work. The events are presented in chronological order. Submitted to the expert editorial committee, the dossiers are classed according to an order established by a general table, which will evolve depending on new contributions; A set of visualisation tools is proposed in addition to the event chronology (maps, broadcasts, historical timeline, diagram of the strings). The dossiers produced in Dezède can be exported in their entirety in PDF format, with the page layout generated automatically. They can thus form an archive or an appendix to a university dissertation.

List of files

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Authority records

At the heart of Dezède, there are thousands of authority records that everyone can access ! The application's flexibility and the homogeneity of the publication arise from the pooling of interrelated authority records by a relational and recursive management system: events, works, individuals, ensembles, places, roles, instruments, professions, etc. The authority records are subject to a scientific control based on the cross-checking of reference material.

Bibliography of authority records

Sources

The rule: at least one source per event. The publication of a chronology in Dezède follows a principle dear to the historian: critical transparency. It is why the programme imposes a sine qua non on the user: the creation of an event is only possible if it is linked a minima to one source. The editorial procedure suggests moreover to start work by creating a source that then needs to be linked to an event. Sources come in different types: periodicals, archives, correspondence, memoirs, ephemera, images, audio, videos. They are presented in different ways: from a simple bibliographical reference (particularly for archives) to a partial or full diplomatic transcription (searchable in plain text via the search engine), from a hyperlink to permanent electronic resources to the publication of digitised images that can be viewed in an online flipbook.

Filter and events

Researching events in Dezède: there's nothing easier ! All you have to do is visit the «events» menu and use the filter. This allows different sorting queries to be cross-checked: free search, period, sort by calendar year or season, place, work, individual, ensemble.

Search and filter events

Search engine

Search in the whole of the contents. The search engine is permanently attached to the menu bar and allows you to search the contents of Dezède at any time: dossiers of events, events, individuals, ensembles, works, places and institutions, sources, events, roles and instruments, professions. The search can be carried out in two different ways: by a free search: typing one or more key words; by an advanced search: selecting one or more filters.

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From researchers to students

Dezède is available for researchers and students who wish to publish a documentary corpus on an artist, a work, a venue, a musical or theatrical phenomenon. Modelled on a spirit of interdisciplinarity, Dezède addresses itself to researchers working in different disciplinary fields: musicology, modern literature, modern and contemporary cultural history, performing arts, art history, history of dance, etc.

Dezède offers a publication aid to researchers registered on a masters or doctoral programme (availability of authority records, appendix export module with page layout and automatic indexing) and the valorisation of university work (confidentiality of personal data, possibility to delay the online publication).

Geared towards the development of innovative pedagogical practices in part financed by a BQE obtained in 2014 at the Université de Rouen, Dezède is also a support for university teaching, particularly for information technology and its methodology. Student personal accounts are linked to a group under the responsibility of a teacher.

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Partners

Dezède is an archival solution for institutions and for the promotion of the performing arts. The application is at the disposition of institutions who seek a secure portal for the valorisation of their heritage and their history. Between 2013 and 2015, three partnerships were initiated. Since 2013, students of the Masters in Musicology programme at the Université de Rouen have been working on the production of a dossier which contains programmes of concerts organised at the Fondation Royaumont. The concert seasons and audiovisual archives of the members of theAFO were published in 2014, and are freely accessible in Dezède. The Opéra Comique archives have been searchable in Dezède since 13 November 2014. Their publication was made possible through a delegation to the CNRS (IRCL, UMR 5186).

Concerts at l’abbaye de Royaumont – Association Française des Orchestres – Archives de l'Opéra Comique

To become a partner, contact: institution@dezede.org

Authors

Each user is the owner of their data. By generating them from their account, the user (researcher, student, institution, etc.) automatically becomes the author and owner of them. This output offers a total transparency regarding the ownership and provencance of the data.

Choice of name

Logo

The logo draws its inspiration from a manuscript conserved in Rouen. It reproduces the author's name that appears on the title page of Auguste et Théodore, more specifically the example conserved at the Bibliothèque municipale de Rouen - manuscript copy [Théâtre 52. It also acts as a tribute to this theatrical library which played a fundamental role in the emergence of the Dezède project. The logo is not strictly speaking a reproduction but a creation by Bertrand Bordage through vector drawing, inspired by this reference.

Logo file

To use the logo, contact contact@dezede.org. It is available in four versions:

Trademark

Dezède has been a registered trademark with theINPI since 12 December 2013 under National Number 134056592.

Origins

Dezède has its origins in a research programme on l’histoire du concert en France led by Patrick Taïeb and Hervé Lacombe, and in the historical investigation method based on the reconstitution of concert programmes from the press and archives. Formed around the post of Patrick Taïeb at theIUF between 2000 and 2005, then around theANR 06-BLAN-03448 between 2006 and 2009, this research programme was shared over a decade by dozens of researchers around the world: Joann Élart and Yannick Simon were very active amongst these. If the efforts to design a computer-based tool were not successful in this period, the experiences acquired have nonetheless established a set of specifications to achieve it: the long-awaited solution should be long-term, free, secure, flexible, unlimited, participatory and dematerialised. On this basis and wishing to expand the method to all performances, Joann Élart announced the launch of the Dezède project to his collaborators in October 2011, following the first contact made with Bertrand Bordage, the designer of the computer programme.

Dezède key dates

2011
June	First meeting between Joann Élart and Bertrand Bordage at the Conservatoire de Rouen
August	Initial presentation of the project at Arques-la-Bataille
September	First working lunch in Rouen
October	Beginning of the adventure

2012
23 February	Study day at the Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie: Meeting at the Théâtre des Arts de Rouen ! Public presentation of the prototype First meeting with Florent Girard, Secretary General of the AFO
28 September	Alpha version went on-line hosted by Webfaction at alpha.dezede.org
25 October	1 000th event
21 November	Study day at the University of Le Havre: Quand la politique s’invite au spectacle Inauguration of beta version and migration to beta.dezede.org
5 December	First exchanges with the DRV at Rouen University to put in place a co-ownership agreement between the Universities of Rouen and Montpellier III, the research bodies CÉRÉdI, GRHis and IRCL, the three teachers-researchers-creators Joann Élart, Yannick Simon and Patrick Taïeb
20 December	1 000th event

2013
21 February	Conference at the Opéra-Comique: Les emplois dans l’art lyrique français Inauguration of version 1.0 at the definitive address dezede.org
14 March	3 000th event
3 June	Dezède is hosted by the TGIR Huma-Num
24 June	4 000th event
2 July	Public presentation at the annual meeting of the Francophone Music Criticism group at the BHVP
16 July	5 000th event
21 October	Dezède was assigned the ISSN 2269-9473 by the BnF
26 October	6 000th event
1stDecember	7 000th event
9 December	Public presentation at the AIBM professional days (French branch) at the Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine
12 December	Dezède is a trademark registered at the INPI − Île-de-France under National Number 134056592
18 December	Signing of a licensing agreement with the AFO at Sénat and creation of the file Association Française des Orchestres

2014
31 January	8 000th event
17 March	9 000th event
7 April	1 000th event
21 mai	Conference at the Opéra-Comique: Le répertoire en question Inauguration of version 2.0
23 November	Signature of the agreement with the Fondation Royaumont for the welcome of Masters students from the musicology department of the Université de Rouen (completion of dossier Concerts at the abbaye de Royaumont)
12 August	15 000th event
13 November	Launch of the dossier Archives de l'Opéra Comique
18 December	Signing of a licensing contract with the Opéra-Comique

2015
12 February	1 000th event
21-22 May	Conference at Montpellier: Nicolas Dezède et son œuvre. Un compositeur au temps des lumières
30 September	Launch of the pedagogical tools financed by a BQE from the Université de Rouen in 2014
2 December	Launch of the Dezède research log (ISSN 2492-9204)

2016
24 March	Dezède joins the Consortium Musica certified by the TGIR Huma-Num
9-10 May	Conference at the École nationale des chartes in Paris: Nicolas Dezède. Un compositeur des Lumières à Paris
16 June	3 000th event
1 October	Internationalisation of Dezède in four languages (German, English, Spanish, Italian) with the support of the IRIHS and the Normandy Region
November	Launch of the journal Florine

To date, Dezède has been developed exclusively by NoriPyt, following the methodological guidelines of Joann Élart. The design has been implemented by Bertrand Bordage and Joann Élart.

The vision for Dezède is based on four founding ideas:

• the wish to make the tool very ergonomic, as much for the reader as for the contributor;

• the use of 100% open source solutions (the code is accessible in our GitHub repository);

• the choice of the most sustainable technical solutions, notably the programming language Python which allows the writing of very readable code and simplifies maintenance considerably;

• the quest for a high stability by the implementation of a suite of automatic tests covering the vast majority of its functions.

Technical solutions

The main technical solutions are:

• Programming language : Python
• Web Toolbox : Django
• Database : PostgreSQL ; Redis
• Search engine : Elasticsearch
• Design : Bootstrap ; Less

See our GitHub repository for more details.