Hi Jane,

Apologies to our international readers − I meant that email to the French GLAM mailing list − but in a way I’m glad of my mistake :)

Le 3 octobre 2015 12:42, Jane Darnell <jane023@gmail.com> a écrit :
That looks nice! Is that all the metadata they have though? It would be nice to know for example the title of the object in other languages (if available), and the original source of these objects before they came into the archives, or at least the date of acquisition. 

Indeed, but as far as I know, unfortunately not :-( Some of the documents have an entry on the Archim database (like [1]) and not much more information is available there. :-(

Since I’m here, and with so many GLAM-dataists in the room : I have been thinking about Wikidata −  Commons reminds me on every file that this an « Artwork without Wikidata item » :) I suppose it makes sense to have WIkidata items about these physical objects conserved at the Archives (correct me if I’m wrong)

Some of them are interesting as they are the physical counterpart to an abstract − for example, [2] is the original document for the 1881 French Law on the Freedom of the Press, for which there are Wikipedia articles and a Wikidata item [3]. Any suggestions on how to reconcile both?

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loi_sur_la_libert%C3%A9_de_la_presse_1_-_Archives_Nationales_-_A-1404.jpg
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3258603