Persée’s 2024 Activity Report is now available. It provides an overview of a year marked by quality-focused projects and a redefinition of the unit’s strategic priorities.
Highlights of the year:
- 34 new collections selected, representing 315,000 additional pages to be integrated;
- nearly 470,000 pages digitized and over 525,000 pages documented;
- improvements in PDF quality and OCR accuracy rates;
- inclusion in the Keepers Registry;
- continuation of exploratory projects and new collaborations.
Adapting to evolving uses
In a context of increasingly diverse research practices and data usage, the unit adjusted its organization and tools. These changes aim to better address emerging needs in data processing, dissemination, and interoperability, particularly in relation to artificial intelligence technologies.
Opening, enriching, preserving
In 2024, the Persée portal recorded 61 million visits and 800 million page views. Half of this traffic came from outside France, highlighting the platform’s international reach beyond the French-speaking world.
On the technical side, the year was marked by a comprehensive overhaul of the PDF generation process, as part of an ongoing effort to improve the quality of documentary resources.
This focus on long-term sustainability also led to Persée joining the Keepers Registry, an international initiative dedicated to the traceability and visibility of long-term archiving for serial publications.
Exploring, collaborating, sharing
Exploratory projects (Rapido, Biblissima+), ongoing partnerships (CollEx-Persée, DATALystE), and training activities carried out in 2024 continued to support collaborative approaches to data and scientific practices.
Producing for the future
The developments and projects undertaken this year are part of a long-term trajectory aimed at strengthening production capacity, supporting data interoperability, and ensuring sustainable access to scientific resources.
Read the full report (PDF in French)