Assistance et Techniques Documentaires in English

Consulting and engineering services always include a first step to assess user needs and existing vocabulary (classification, thesaurus or lexicons) and their uses in indexing and retrieval.
However, some projects are more specifically focused on languages.

Knowledge organisation and information retrieval languages

New 2007-2008

Lexis Nexis France

Evaluation of the publisher thesaurus being deployed, and assistance of the team with the finalising of the thesaurus. Application based on Mondeca ITM tool (2006/2007).

International Sport Organization, based in Lausanne (CH)

Patrimonial Asset management system : design and development of a common repository and unified controlled vocabularies for the different domain-specific systems (films, videos and photos medias, museum artefacts, corporate publications from the library system, records management and historical archives). Application based on Mondeca ITM tool (2007/2008)

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ADEME

Audit of the thesaurus and how it is used and proposals with regard to changes to extend use on the intranet and Internet (2006).

arMOnia GIE – MSA (Mutualité Sociale Agricole) Farmer’s mutual plan

Design of a classification framework for the operational documentation related to IT products and projects, accessible on the Intranet and Extranet (2006).

AFNOR

Design of the thesaurus for the European database CERTIFICAT – European certification of industrial products.

Ministre Media Development Division – Prime Minister’s department

Redesign of the thesaurus based on an audit and a user survey, with a view to direct use by Information Service users on the Intranet (audit, proposal, creation and documentation).

Electricité de France - Electricity Board

Design and creation of a film and video catalogue for the Study and Research Department, enriched by a specialised index.

Eurostat (European Commission)

Study of the classification framework for use in the Eurostat information management system (1996).

Perfume Industry Association

Study carried out of the existing thesaurus adapted to the Association’s needs. Choice of the CCIP (Paris Chamber of Commerce) thesaurus, development of three specialised fields related to the perfume industry (1992)

Gas board – Research division

Creation of the skills database information language for the research division (for the MB Jadoul Consultancy)

Gas board – Research division

Study carried out of the Daugaz thesaurus, design of 5 new semantic fields and overall finalising of the thesaurus (coherence and enriching of links). Design of a protocol for indexing and information retrieval tests and test results analysed (1995-1996)

National Audiovisual Institute (INA)

Audit of a faceted thesaurus created in 1975 (36,000 terms, 112 fields) used by INA for indexing and retrieval of public radio and television programmes and adapted proposals. Implementation of approved modifications (1997-1998)

National Cancer Institute (INCa)

Design of a Cancer thesaurus (5,000 terms) for the retrieval of INCa document  resources, with the aid of a group of INCa experts and information professionals (2005/06)

Safety Research National Institute (INRS)

Design of request vocabulary for tables of professional illnesses (professional activities/situations and pathogens), for two distinct audiences, medical professionals or prescribing physicians, in order to use these tables on the Web.

Culture ministry head offices

Study of 14 controlled languages (classification plans, thesaurus, list of Rameau subject headings) used in different departments and evolution scenario proposals, with a view to developing harmonised access via Internet and Intranet.

Armament head office (DGA)

Structuring operational documentation banks and study of the impact on document production and databank organisation, with a view to improving access to these resources in the long-term, whether they are stored in “public” or “private” databases on the Intranet.

National Education ministry – Head offices

Comparative audit of the 10 controlled languages (lexicons, thesaurus) used in the different departments and evolution scenario proposals with a view to optimising the use of the portal that brings together the databanks of the Ministry’s 10 head offices.

Sceren, National Education Ministry

Technical analysis of proposals for the evolution of the National  Education’s indexing and retrieval thesaurus, Motbis (2005)

Justice Ministry – Prison Administration division

Analysis of the link between the study files classification plan and the hierarchical lexicon used at the information service. Evolution proposals (1998).

Justice ministry – Prison administration national school (Enap)

Construction of a thesaurus based on a list of 6,000 terms in collaboration with the information service team (2005-2006).

Strategy and information management

Capital vision (audio-visual archives)

Helping to develop the production management system (referencing audiovisual databanks on analogue media or digital flow, managing storage and media handling, audit and monitoring tools). Preliminary studies, specifications definition, aid with choosing a service and application acceptance (1998 ; 2004)

International Confederation of Composer and Author Societies (CISAC)

Information system master plan for the medium-term: organising all the resources and standardising access to all member companies from all over the world.

Ile-de-France Tourism Regional Council (CRT)  – Ile-de-France Tourism Regional Research Institute (ORTIF)

Information system master plan for aiding these two organisation’s activities with regard to organisational, functional and technical plans for managing departmental documents, records and information and/or document banks that exist or that will be developed.

EDFGDF – PDSCC and ICC Services

Design of a methodology for managing produced, exchanged and archived documents for each of these organisations and assistance with document production.

Eurostat (European Commission)

Surveying and diagnosing production flow and communicating existing information, leading to proposals for the development of a Virtual Document Service (1996) and the adaptation of a prototype.

IDIT (Association internationale du droit du transport) - International transport law association

Functional and organisational as well as technical orientation in order to improve specialised information databases for a wider audience.

Ministry of the Interior / Local Government Head Office (DGCL)

Outline project for developing a document resources device, developed in association with the Division’s service project concerning functional, organisational, technical and human plans.

Bourgogne Region – Regional Affairs Secretarial Head Office

Functional, methodological and technical design of a targeted  information System, that will optimise the managing of State intervention programmes in the local affairs

Ministry of the Interior / Foreign Economic Relations Division (DREE)

Defining an organisation and associated tools (analysis grid, classification frame, storage and archiving rules and procedures) for managing and improving access to business records. Implementation with the provision of a references database.

Société Z – Strategy Division (Industrial Sector)

Design of a co-operative information management system using Lotus Notes and a shared classification frame.

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