Three-year partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de France making Gallica's digitised heritage consumable by AI agents — the "diffuseur" model for cultural institutions.
Overview
Content coming — stub placeholder for the Phase 2 framework. This page will describe the BnF / Gallica partnership: the three-year contract, the “diffuseur” model, and what becomes possible when a national library is accessible to AI agents with rights and provenance preserved.
Content coming soon — content will be provided by Ghislain as Phase 2 progresses.
Planned sections
- Problem statement — AI access to heritage, on the library’s terms.
- The diffuseur model — what it is, why it’s new, how it differs from bulk licensing.
- Stack — APIs, identification, usage metering, rights-holder dashboards.
- Outcomes — early integrations, cultural-sector adoption signals.
- Lessons — transferable to other national libraries and archives.