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The EPOP Project aims to deliver a diverse research The EPOP database will collect exhaustive
output, including a virtual museum, a collection of information about the canon of popular texts which
essays, a website, and an educational cd-rom. All of forms the root of European media culture. The stake
these products will be based on information is of great relevance, since the large popularity of
collected in a database. The usefulness of such a tool these works does not imply that we are provided with
is self-evident: the storage of qualitative information a specialized and full knowledge of them. Their
in a such a way that it can also be quantified enables ability to migrate from one medium to another and
the handling of a large amount of comparative data. across national boundaries make it, paradoxically,
It also allows new corpora to emerge from the data. difficult to trace the genesis and circulation and of
Furthermore, as an online resource, the database will popular culture texts. Using the tools provided by
give to the EPOP network members the possibility national libraries (notably through the The European
to contribute remotely according to their specific Library portal, which makes the catalogue of
competences. European libraries available at http://
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search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/index.html) When finished, the EPOP database will permit to
the EPOP network will try to fill the gaps in the rapidly obtain carefully verified information about
knowledge of this corpus thanks to the use of the the history of the texts to be studied. Which is the
archives and data supplied by previous research. first edition of a given work? How many translations
During the month of April an EPOP database have been made? What reviews are there? The
prototype will be tested by the EPOP network systematic addition of geographical data, concerning
researchers. Its framework was designed by Farid authors, editions, but also the narratives themselves,
Boumédiène, at Géomatique of the University of will allow the European dimension of the texts to be
Limoges. This experimental phase will last one explored as well, visualizing how they belong to a
month and be limited to written texts (novels, ‘ciné- transnational culture. In conclusion, the database will
romans’, feuilleton and comics). If the results are help us to understand how we get from the ‘roots’ of
positive the database can be placed online, completed media culture to the rhizomes and networks which
with a shared data capture interface (in PHP/MySQL grew up in nineteenth and twentieth-century
format). The prototype will then be extended to Europe, riddled by questions of national identity.
include performing arts and audiovisual texts.