Since 2010,Abes has received funding from the MESR, its supervisory ministry, supplemented since 2018 by funding from the GIS Collex-Persée, to support institutions in their retrospective collection reporting projects. The aim of this ongoing effort to complete the reporting of collections is to enhance the value of documentary holdings that have not yet been catalogued on Sudoc.
Annual call for projects
Pour 2025, l’Abes invite les établissements du réseau Sudoc à déposer leurs demandes de subvention pour un soutien à des opérations de signalement rétrospectif, en remplissant ce formulaire :
https://fr.surveymonkey.com/r/Retro_Sudoc_appel_projets_2025
To facilitate the preparation of responses, the complete questionnaire is available.
Les dossiers doivent être déposés au plus tard le 17 décembre 2024.
more information : presentation of the device
Accompanying retrospective reporting operations
As a national operator,Abes provides methodological, technical and library assistance to any member institution of the Sudoc network engaged in retrospective reporting operations, whether or not these are co-financed byAbes.
- Methodology Guide: a normative tool for production in the Sudoc - current or retrospective
- Support for quality control of records produced as part of a retrospective report in Sudoc : WinIBW order lists and displays to ensure quality control
Benchmarks
Since the early 1990s, the retrospective conversion of university library catalogues has been the subject of an ongoing programme by the various ministries of higher education and research. Within this framework, two national contracts (2001-2004; 2005-2009), managed and financed by the MESR, have enabled the retrospective conversion of nearly 1.8 million records.
In 2011, a study by Bureau van Dijk Information Management (a consultancy and services company specialising in information management) drew up a detailed assessment of the reverse conversion operations carried out in Sudoc since 2000 and formulated proposals for theAbes action programme.
- consult the summary and presentation of the results of the study
In June 2012, the Scientific Council of theAbes established recommendations, in particular concerning selection criteria for projects co-funded by theAbes, which determine the axes of the retrospective reporting policy in the Sudoc. These recommendations have been validated by the Board of Directors ofAbes.