Les Avancées du Corpus CARE en France (2008-2011)

The ANR project CARE-IV-X saec. (2008-2011) is the French contribution to the international program, introduced in 2002 by the IRCLAMA - a corpus aiming to list the religious buildings of Europe between the 4^thand the very beginning of the 11^thcent. AD. These churches have been studied in France since the 19^thcent.; the Corpus has to give an up-to-date vision using current methodologies. France elaborated the IT database, semantic Web Wikibridge, with on-line seizure and interrogations, which will be used by all the European countries after translations. Since 2010, the Wiki system allows French regional teams or individuals to prepare forms for IT seizure and texts intended for a paper publication. As in the other countries involved in the project, work is progressing at various speeds. Some of the working teams of archaeologists, historians, art historians - from most of French universities, CNRS , Ministry of Culture (archaeology, historical monuments, museums and archives), region or town archaeology services, private rescue archaeology services, students, etc., were formed and started to collect data only in 2010 or 2011; Île de France and Paris should begin in 2012. This is a true work in progress. While feeding the IT database, 5 French regions began to collect in this phase of the project the material for a simple or grouped paper volume.