The ‘Fonds Anciens’ and the field diary or travelogue diary (corpus of my PhD thesis, 2009) are a source of study for the human sciences, mostly on the epistemology of geography and ethnology – anthropology, but also for the genetic of visual arts, and heritage would be a fruitful subject for digital humanities. From pictorial works to inventory of heritage work, from illustrations of Elsewhere to ethnography and cultural geography, a corpus of diaries – mostly of travels often considered as research diaries – which would be scanned in order to incorporate a heritage oriented e-museum, would increase the value of such diaries at the national level which are conserved in museums, libraries and education based companies. As much a support, a tool and an object of research, the diaries thanks to watercolour drawings has been in the service of science and the very beginnings of the birth of the human sciences. A personal tool of research and creative inspiration for artists, the intermedia travelogue diary – reporting, from a structure work to a website is also a reflective tool for humanities, from geography to anthropology but also for enhancement of monumental Heritage and Tourism: a research field diary, an ethnographic diary or a diary of observations recorded. A set of visual or textual notes and sketches, it is the memory of the artist or scientist on the field or during a journey: collection of material, observations, a harvest of the fruits of hard work or research.
Database:
The catalogue of archives and manuscripts of French academic libraries:
http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/
The online inventory of digitized corpus and digitization projects of institutions and organizations of Higher Education and Research:
http://www.numes.fr/numes/mainMenu.html
Courses of studies:
Geological diaries of Philippe Glangeaud from 1899 to 1929 in Auvergne. University Library of Clermont-Ferrand
http://bibliotheque.clermont-universite.fr/glangeaud/collections
Travelogues of Jean Dresh 115 manuscripts written on the field between 1934 and 1990 Université Paris 8
http://www.bibliotheque-numerique-paris8.fr/fre/notices/104696-Les-carnets-de-voyage.html
Travelogue diaries of Jules Cloquet in Italy in 1837. Université Paris 5.
http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/cloquet/
L’herbier de Paolo Boccone in 1670. University library of Paris 5.
http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/boccone/
Pierre Loti designer – A work of long duration. Alain Quella-Villéger Bruno Vercier. Bleu around 2010.
http://alain-quella-villeger.over-blog.com/article-nouveaute-pierre-loti-dessinateur-40198735.html
Carnets Mexicains d’Henri Cartier-Bresson – – 1934-1964. Hazan, 1995.
http://www.henricartierbresson.org/hcb/HCB_expo_fr.htm
Travelogue diaries (1856-1857). Herman Melville, translated from English by and presentation by Philippe Jaworski. Mercure de France, 1993.
Samuel de Champlain: Travelogue diaries of Canada: A cartoon strip of the seventeenth century played by Patrick Henniquau, Bernard Mounier. Bonne Anse Editions, Micro-Media, 2007.
La collection Léo Drouyn, albums of drawings by the publishing house Entre-deux-mers: five volumes published since 1997.
Le voyage d’Arthur Young to France, 1787, 88, 89
http://lejournaldearthuryoung.fr/index.php?content=posts.php&init=40
Voyage dans les Pyrénées . Taine Hipollyte et Gustave Doré. Ed MontHélios 2002
La Terre sainte hier et aujourd’hui : lithographies et journal de David Roberts Fabio Bourbon, David Roberts. Paris: Herscher, 1997.
Project by LIDO on Voyage en Auvergne by Étienne-Jean Delécluze (1781-1863): http://lido.hypotheses.org/462
Quatre siècles de cartographie en Auvergne by Mauricette Fournier
http://lido.hypotheses.org/479
Geoculture. La France vue par les écrivains
http://lafrancevueparlesecrivains.fr/
