Manioc : bibliothèque numérique Caraïbe, Amazonie, Plateau des Guyane

Manioc (Cassava) is a specialized digital library on the Caribbean, the Amazon, the Guyana Plateau and regions or areas of interest related to these territories.

You will find texts, sound, pictures and references to the cultural, social, economic or political in these countries.
Cassava contributes to the development of heritage and the creation of tomorrow's memory by providing both restoring ancient works of social thought of an era texts and contemporary works from university research.

Documents are made available for study and research and not to promote the ideas developed by the authors.
Cassava is in a process of free access to heritage and scientific information. In this context, Manioc is searchable by OAI-PMH

 Origin
This project, initiated by the Joint Service documentation of the University of the French West Indies and Guiana is intended to be open to all institutions that wish to join.

It has been funded since 2006 by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research as part of a leaning Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Humanities, Languages ​​and Social Sciences (CRILLASH) program involving the laboratories of the UAG.

From the beginning of the project, partners have joined the initiative:

General Council of Guadeloupe (Departmental Archives, Caribbean Media Bettino Lara, Schoelcher Museum, Museum Edgar Clerc)
City of Pointe-à-Pitre (Library Network)
the General Council of Guyana (Departmental Archives, Alexander Library Franconia)
Regional Council of Guyana (Guyana Museum of Cultures)
the General Council of Martinique,
Clément Foundation in Martinique.
Bunch Orkide joined Cassava in 2013 for development of mining archives.
Evaluation of scannable fund these territories was supported by three Regional Directorates of Cultural Affairs.
The National Library of France supports Cassava via the device associated poles and finance a significant part of the digitization of old books. Cassava data are questioned by Gallica .
Cassava is intended to be open to all institutions that wish to join.

Manioc (Cassava) why?
The complexity of the storylines, geopolitical, social (...) woven between the territories affected by this library, made it difficult to find an item that symbolizes the whole. This is the content of this library revealed a strong identity and ancestral link cassava.

Amazon in Puerto Rico, the civilization of the bitter cassava outweighs its canoes, this poisonous plant and know-how that transmutes into nourishing root.

Gift from God for the Indians, plant devil for new settlers, ambivalence cassava, said the intermingling of peoples sometimes difficult in this region.

Today, it is no longer the basis for all food, it retains a heritage and symbolic value that the intergenerational transmission has consecrated.
Rituals processing Cassava reflect a societal model where the concept of time is outside the production-companies and where everyone has a place in a common and shared achievement.

Copyright
All documents published by Cassava can be viewed, printed and shared through private or non-profit educational use.
Any use for commercial purposes must be subject to an application:

the author and copyright holders for contemporary documents,
the person responsible for placing online for heritage documents in the public domain property.
 

 

 Technical aspects

 

Development, integration and design: Laurent Birba
Accommodation: IT Resource Center - Martinique
Management software open source digital library: Greenstone
Warehouse URL: http://www.manioc.org/oai.php

 

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