Réseau-Observatoire
The Réseau-Observatoire pour les Matériaux narratifs orthodoxes, vaticinaux et historiques is a scientific association under French law, based in Paris. Its programs concern ancient and modern linguistics, religious studies, archaeology, textual criticism, digital corpora, terminology, and reference editions.
The Network connects subject-specific projects with methods for describing and publishing texts. Responsibility for content remains with the author, editor, or thematic program; specifications and normalized versions have their own maintainers.
Participants and Fields
[First Name Last Name]
Scientific coordination; syntax and formal linguistics
Field of work: editorial program, lexico-syntactic profile, scholarly publications, and coordination among thematic projects.
[First Name Last Name]
Ancient texts, manuscripts, and textual criticism
Field of work: selection and description of sources, palaeography, structure of manuscript and patristic collections, and edition of parallel texts.
[First Name Last Name]
Lexicology and scientific terminology
Field of work: Latin and Greek productive bases, terminology records, lexical resources, and verification of subject nomenclatures.
[First Name Last Name]
Digital editions and metadata
Field of work: TEI, bibliographic description, identifiers, alignment of versions, data export, and platform maintenance.
Participants’ professional and academic affiliations are listed next to their names as personal information. Institutional partnerships are published separately and require a confirmed agreement or a documented joint project.
Selected Stages of the Program
The first general and lexicographic Romanova materials date from the mid-2000s. During the same period, working conventions emerged around lexical choice, text structure, and editorial representation.
In later years, discussion of certain conventions was connected with research seminars and with the development of international practices in digital text and linguistic annotation. By the early 2010s, the main focus had shifted toward applying those choices in dictionaries, corpora, and publication projects.
The current program brings together a catalogue of references, local profiles, thematic resources, and a registry of applications. Historical documents are preserved with their original attribution and are not retroactively given the status of active specifications.
Contact
General questions and scientific coordination: [address]
Corpora and editions: [address]
Terminology and specifications: [address]
Legal information, statutes, and the address for official correspondence are provided in the Legal notice section.