The ARTFL Project considers collaborative work and projects a central part of its mission.
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Works marked with a plus sign (+) are available only to University of Chicago users.
French Literature and History
Cross-Period Resources
- ARTFL-FRANTEXT* - Core collaboration with ATILF-CNRS, spanning 12th-20th centuries.
- The Image of France - Documentary imagery project with George D. McKee.
Medieval and Renaissance
- Textes de Français Ancien (TFA) - Partnership with Ottawa's Laboratoire de Français Ancien, providing comprehensive access to medieval French literary corpus.
- Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes - Long-term partnership with the University of Tours for Renaissance French texts.
- Provençal Poetry Database* - Partnership with Professor Akehurst (Minnesota) for medieval Occitan studies.
Early Modern (17th-18th Centuries)
- Artamène - Digital edition with Neuchâtel research team (Bourqui, Gefen, Selmeci).
- Practices and Legacies - Major collaboration with OBVIL/Sorbonne on 18th-century cultural transmission.
- TOUT Voltaire - A comprehensive collaboration with the Voltaire Foundation at Oxford University, providing access to Voltaire's complete works with extensive scholarly apparatus and search capabilities.
- TOUT d'Holbach - Complete works in collaboration with the Voltaire Foundation, representing the first comprehensive digital edition of d'Holbach's writings.
- Histoire des deux Indes - A pioneering collaboration with the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World at the University of Minnesota, the Centre for Digital Humanities Research at the Australian National University, and the Stanford University Libraries. This project provides access to the complete text of Raynal's seminal work, with extensive annotations and search capabilities.
- La Loi de la Révolution Française 1789-1799 - A groundbreaking collaboration with Anne Simonin, Pierre Serna, and Yann Arzel Durelle-Marc, uniting for the first time the "Baudouin" and "Louvre" collections. This project provides unprecedented access to the complete legislative history of Revolutionary France, with extensive commentary and cross-referencing.
- Archives Parlementaires - A partnership with Stanford University's Department of History, providing access to the definitive collection of Revolutionary parliamentary debates and documents, enhanced with detailed metadata and contextual materials.
- Oeuvres complètes de Robespierre - Developed with Dan Edelstein at Stanford University, this comprehensive digital edition includes all ten volumes published by the Société des études Robespierristes, with enhanced search capabilities and new analytical tools.
Modern Period (19th-20th Centuries)
- Très Grande Bibliothèque (TGB) - Partnership with ObTIC/Sorbonne, providing access to over 112,000 texts from Gallica, primarily 19th century.
- Balzac's La Comédie Humaine - Critical edition with Groupe internationale de Recherches balzaciennes.
- French Revolution of 1848 - With Center for Research Libraries on revolutionary pamphlets.
Encyclopedic and Reference Works
- Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert - A cornerstone project with partners from the CNRS (Centre Jean Pépin) and the University of Chicago Library. The collaboration has resulted in extensive digital markup, high-resolution plate images, and sophisticated cross-referencing capabilities that have made this resource an essential tool for eighteenth-century studies.
- Encyclopédie Méthodique - A major collaboration with Le groupe Θ at the Centre Jean Pépin UMR 8230 and ENS/PSL, providing access to over 34 digitized volumes. This ongoing project has digitized key sections including Philosophie ancienne et moderne, Théologie, and Assemblée nationale constituante, making this crucial Enlightenment resource available to researchers worldwide.
- Robert Estienne's Dictionarium Latinogallicum* - A collaboration with Professor T. R. Wooldridge of the University of Toronto, providing the first complete digital edition of this foundational Latin-French dictionary.
- Féraud's Dictionnaire critique - A partnership with Le Groupe d'Etude en Histoire de la Langue Française (GEHLF), making this crucial resource freely available to scholars worldwide.
- Nicot's Thresor* - Developed with the University of Toronto, offering comprehensive access to this essential early modern French dictionary.
- Digital South Asia Library - Collaboration with multiple institutions to provide comprehensive access to South Asian research materials.
- Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary
Italian Studies
- Opera del Vocabolario Italiano* - Comprehensive collaboration with Accademia della Crusca and CNR's OVI, providing access to over 2,000 early Italian texts.
- Renaissance Dante in Print - Partnership with ItalNet Consortium on early Dante editions.
- Franco-Italian Online Archive - Collaboration on medieval Franco-Italian literary traditions.
- Italian Women Writers - A collaborative project with the University of Chicago Library providing access to published works by Italian women authors from the 13th to the 20th century. This comprehensive collection includes biographical information, bibliographies, and full-text access to works in multiple genres, making previously hard-to-find texts available to researchers worldwide.
Digital Humanities Platforms
- Commonplace Cultures - A collaboration with the Oxford eResearch Centre at Oxford University, and the Australian National University, exploring the evolution of the commonplace culture within Early-Modern English print culture.