On a du mal à imaginer qu’au xvii e siècle un rejeton de la petite noblesse, ruiné de surcroît, puisse commander la plus puissante armée européenne de son temps et se trouver sur un pied d’égalité avec des princes souverains. C’est pourtant ce à quoi est parvenu John Churchill, premier duc de Marlborough. Quels ont été les ressorts de cette ascension, quels obstacles a-telle rencontrés et quels ont été les résultats effectifs ? Autant de questions permettant de saisir en quoi cette carrière, en tout point exceptionnelle, est paradoxalement révélatrice des logiques de promotion sociale à l’œuvre dans l’Europe de l’Ancien Régime.
International audienceFor more than a decade, libraries have started to "collect the web". National libraries in particular select, collect and store publications and websites from their national domain, seeing this as a task similar to traditional legal deposit. The collection policies and collecting methods vary, so that it is difficult to compare the quantity and quality of the respective web archives. In order to harmonize the evaluation of web archives, ISO TC 46 SC 8 has produced a Technical Report that standardizes the terminology and statistics and offers tested indicators for assessing the quality of web archiving. The paper describes the aimsand contents of the ISO Report
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