Explore the french elections candidates' professions of faith since 1958
From 2013, the Sciences Po Library manage the publication of the electoral archives created by the Centre de recherches politiques (CEVIPOF) and now preserved by the Library Département archives: a unique collection of election (legislative but also presidential, european, etc.) candidates professions of faith from 1958.
After having published it on Internet Archive, the Sciences Po Library came to us to build a custom exploration tool. Indeed they built a very rich set of metadata which describe the candidates profils in details for the entire collection (more than thurty thousands documents). We created a faceted search engine alowing to filter the collection by election, electoral division, political group, candidates profils...
The resulting documents can then be explored either through lists, data visualisations or downloaded in CSV. The original documents are available thanks to Internet Archive's embeded player. Thus indexation choices made by the librarists and archivists can be checked against the source.
A Data valorization project
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A faceted search engine on legislative elections' candidates' professions of faith.
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Visualisation of the selected document in time and in the french territory.
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Candidates' profils: gender and age, professions, political support...
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For one document, metadata and original scan can be read side by side.