The current convergence of media literacy, information literacy and computer literacy is one of the most important recent transformations of “the culture of information.” This convergence has brought about the development of “transliteracy.” Transliteracy can be defined on two levels that address the complexity of modes of interaction between information and users: 1-the ability to embrace the multimedia layout that encompasses skills for reading, writing, counting and computing with all the available tools (from paper to image, from book to blog); 2-the capacity to navigate through multiple domains that includes the ability to search, to evaluate, to test, to validate, and to modify information according to its relevant contexts of use (as code, news and document). TRANSLIT explores the socio-technical, political, economic and educational implications of this emerging transliteracy. This research focuses particularly on three types of events where situations of transliteracy occur (concours Castor, semaine de la presse, journée du numérique) as they may bring to light the various levels of transliteracy and their dynamics, according to two different scenarios: the situations of training in schools; the situations of training out-of-school around the selected events. The project hopes to produce knowledge about the specific problems transliteracy raises in terms of editorialization of content, transmission of knowledge, co-construction of learning and civic participation in digital activities as well as transferability of diverse practices and skills in different contexts. In this relatively under-theorised field, using the results obtained, TRANSLIT also aims at modelling elements of equivalence, evolution and transfer between the various literacies (media, information and computer)to produce a transliteracy articulated around the sciences of information-documentation, communication and computation. These would be conspicuously French contributions to a field where the English-speaking world has tended to examine transliteracy as emerging from the teaching of the mother tongue. TRANSLIT aims at answering three sets of questions: 1. What new sharing of competences between these three disciplinary fields do these uses of transliteracy generate? 2. What new collective dynamics, on the scale of the school and national environment may emerge with the development of transliteracy? 3. What are the political and educational solutions that might aid the acquisition of a fully-fledged transliteracy? Besides a series of monographs, two types of complementary investigations are planned: - a continuous epistemological inventory intended to assess sites, domains and projects related to transliteracy to provide a dynamic mapping of the process; - a detailed study of all the political and policy-relevant issues concerning the regulation of this transliteracy as a collective phenomenon. TRANSLIT proposes a research program between four recognized laboratories in the humanities to analyze the dynamics at work in transliteracy and its contexts of use. The purpose is to open investigations into the problems of interest for the various actors in this domain. TRANSLIT will guarantee an accurate evaluation of results for use in the industrial, political and educational spheres. This research will be conducted over a total duration of 36 months. The results will be published in communications directed not only to the academic community, through reports and publications, but also, more generally, directed to the general public, the decision-makers, to industry and to civic associations. In the last 6 months, the organization of an international conference will set the results in a comparative framework for debate (in particular between the French-speaking and English-speaking cultural area).

The publication of medieval charters is an important issue for the European diplomatics since a long time. A great work has been done since the first publications during the 17th century but there still is a great lot of work to be done. Even for the 12th cent. Many archives never have been systematically edited. So, the first stakes of CharCis is to relaunch the edition of medieval charters. From the years 1970’, computer science has been applied to Human Sciences, on which it had a great impact. But, if there are today many databases of charters, in France and in Europe, there is a too big diversity in the making of these databases and of their query interfaces, although data grammars have been developed, like the TEI or the CEI, which is a kind of extension of the former, and although the generalization of the XML-language. So, the second stakes of the CharCis project, is to organize a new and generalized format of databases charters and to create a new query interface, efficient for thematic as for lexical queries, which could become a model adaptable for European diplomatics in its diversity. Some years ago, a new kind of texts publication has been proposed: the idea that it should be possible to publish what should not be a critical edition in the usual meaning of the word, but a first step towards a critical edition. A simple transcription, from one single manuscript, without authenticity critics, without identification of the place and person-names, but published on the net in a database, so that it could be interrogated. The 3rd stakes of the project is the publication of a great lot (about 2,000) of unpublished charters; a simple publication, 1st step towards a critical edition, for giving a first access to the texts. One of the most spectacular movements of the 12th century is the development of the Cistercian order. This Cistercian history seems to be well known, but actually, many parts of this tremendous expansion are only known on a simplifying way. This is because many Cistercian texts are still unpublished, and this is mainly true for the Cistercian charters. So, the 4th stakes of our project is, thanks to the publication of unedited Cistercian charters, to give way to a better knowledge of the Cistercian abbeys, and mainly of the growth of the order and of the uses of literacy among the Cistercian monasteries. Finally, the aim of the project is to create a spur to action on the development of scientific research, and especially on the production of tools in two directions: the production of a system of text edition working following the rules of the CEI/TEI, which actually should be a ready-to-use system for the basis element but thanks to which the researcher could go further; the production of maps tanks to IGS, which localize with a maximal accuracy the historical datas, and give way to an analysis and representation. So the 5th stakes of the project is to create a spur to action for the production of new tools.

The DEFI project, based on the collaboration between French and Italian specialists in gender history, labour history, urban history and history of law and family, proposes an interdisciplinary study of the economic roles and labour activities of women in four major cities of early modern Italy: Venice, Florence, Naples, Palermo, which represent different social, economic and political realities. The project intends to enter into dialogue with research on Northern Europe and to question, from a gender history perspective, the model of the ‘Little divergence' proposed by economic historians and recently revisited by research on women's economic activities in the Netherlands in the medieval and early modern periods. It is based on a set of comparable sources in the four cities (archives of welfare institutions and notarial sources, supplemented by city-specific sources) studied for three periods: 1- central decades of the sixteenth century, (reconfiguration of the Italian economy in the context of the beginning of the ‘marginalisation’ of the Mediterranean, development of the luxury industry in Florence and Venice and reorganisation of the ports of Naples and Palermo); 2- central decades of the seventeenth century (epidemics and economic crises); 3- last decades of the eighteenth century, (culmination of a multi-century process of proto-industrial development that calls into question the urban dominance). The databases produced will be made available to the scientific community, in an open access research approach. Research seminars, a doctoral training week, an international conference in France and participation in international symposiums will allow the project's results to be promoted, which will be published in English and French.