[fse-esf] ESF MEMORY 2003-2008

[Françoise Feugas]

Dear friends,

We’ll be in Berlin, Carole Faure and I, to present the database we 
created from the collection of the ESF 2003 reports.

We created a way of browsing both simpler and more precise that enables 
to search in different lists : organisations, keywords, speakers, 
geographic areas... We also worked on the layouts, merged presentations 
and minutes/reports of the debates, simplified and harmonised entries, 
checked and corrected the names of the organisations, collected some 
additionnal texts and translations.

A first result is here : http://www.fse-esf.org/spip.php?rubrique78

We did it, despite the fact that those docs are day after day more 
‘archives’, for three main reasons : 1/It was a decision of the 
Stockholm EPA to keep the memory of the process in the esf ‘official’ 
site ; 2/ A great number of these texts are always available today and 
we wanted to valorise the good reporting job made by many organisations 
; 3/we hope that this is going to encourage the collection process of 
Malmö memory by providing a ready made database in which new reports can 
easily be put online (a minima).
This work on more than 300 reports from the plenaries, seminars and 
workshops is the only existing one in the SF process, as far as we know. 
We wanted to demonstrate that it is worth while to go on. You are the 
judges now...

Welcome on Friday morning in Berlin at the memory workshop to discuss of 
it.

Françoise Feugas
ESF 2008 memory project
Memoria viva
http://www.fse-esf.org