Les recherches présentées dans cet article reposent sur le projet ANR-2014-CE24-0020, DOREMUS (Doing Reusable MUSical data).

Between Compilation and Computation, the Digital Cultural Heritage. The Europeana project, initiated in 2008, aggregates the OPACs of multiple European institutions in charge of the preservation of cultural heritage. The aim is to “provide new forms of access to culture, to inspire creativity and stimulate social and economic growth”. The analysis of the modifications and rewritings appending during the various stages of the project – from the creation of the record in two different institutions to the deposit in the collective database – shows that the current logic for the constitution of this repository is based on compilation. However, building the European Digital Archive is a strong political act that goes much further than gathering together local data from various institutions in various countries. It is a change of scale and we have to examine the meaning of these data from a European point of view to ensure its success.

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Three libraries in the North‐East of France are collaborating in the creation of an archive of digitised images that simultaneously preserves and extends access to the region's iconographic heritage. Images are scanned and stored in the Phrasea multimedia DBMS, along with iconographic and geo‐historical indexing data applied using specially‐elaborated thesauri. The public success of the system has prompted its developers to consider implementing novel user‐interaction metaphors.