RicercarLab - Early Music Research Lab
Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance
59, rue Néricault-Destouches
BP 12050
37020 TOURS Cedex 1
+33 (0)2 47 36 77 61
ricercar@univ-tours.fr
Publication director
Arnaud Giacometti
President of the University of Tours
60, rue du Plat d’Étain
BP 12050
37020 TOURS Cedex 1
+33 (0)2 47 36 64 02
president@univ-tours.fr
Publication director
Philippe Vendrix (CNRS research director and director of the RicercarLab programme)
Scientific directors
- Hyacinthe Belliot (CNRS engineer)
- Vincent Besson (CNRS engineer)
- Philippe Canguilhem (professor - University of Tours)
- Camilla Cavicchi (CNRS research engineer)
- David Fiala (associate professor - Université de Tours)
- Philippe Vendrix (CNRS research director and director of the RicercarLab programme)
Technical directors
- Jean-Louis Bouteiller (assistant engineer - DSI - University of Tours)
- Sarra Ferjani (CNRS engineer)
- Suzy Piat (University of Tours engineer)
Université de Tours
Direction des Systèmes d'Information (DSI)
60, rue du Plat d'Étain
BP 12050
37020 TOURS Cedex 1
+33 (0)2 47 36 73 34
dsi@univ-tours.fr
Database design: Sarra Ferjani (CNRS engineer)
Website development and maintenance: Suzy Piat (University of Tours engineer)
The website code is in a GitLab repository and is meant to be open source; the technical documentation is also there. The repository and the documentation, still private, will be made public in the near future.
The website is made with the open-source web framework Django. It relies on a relational database using the open-source database management system PostgreSQL. Some Python packages, listed in the project requirements inside the repository, as well as JavaScript libraries and other frameworks are also used:
- Ace
- Bootstrap
- JavaScript Cookie
- jQuery and jQuery UI
- Leaflet and Leaflet.markecluster plugin
- MIDI Player
- Verovio
Database updates are made by the members of the RicercarLab programme team, as well as its partners and collaborators. If you notice something missing or wrong regarding the musicological data, you can contact Hyacinthe Belliot.
The website maintenance is made by Suzy Piat and Sarra Ferjani. You can contact them if you notice a problem regarding the website.
In application of the law of 11 March 1957 (art. 41) and the intellectual property code of 1 July 1992, any partial or total reproduction for collective use is strictly forbidden without authorisation from the RicercarLab programme.
The logos, visuals and brands on this site are the property of their respective owners.
This site may have been linked to other sites via hyperlinks. The RicercarLab programme declines all responsibility for the information presented on these other sites.
The use of the RicercarDataLab site is governed by French law.
As part of its activities, the RicercarLab programme collects and processes personal data necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by the programme. This data is stored in the site RicercarDataLab database on a server of the University of Tours (see "Hosting" above). This data is intended for use by members of the RicercarLab programme team. It is kept for as long as the RicercarLab programme continues its missions.
Data is collected and processed for the purpose of disseminating information on the site. This information has been provided to the RicercarLab programme in the past, for research projects. Some information is mandatory, while other information is optional. If a collaborator refuses to provide the mandatory information, that collaborator can no longer be mentioned on the site and their contribution to the research projects will no longer be visible.
This information is:
- last name (mandatory)
- first name (mandatory)
- initials (optional)
- affiliated institution (optional)
- e-mail address (optional)
In accordance with European Regulation No. 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and with Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on data processing, files and freedoms, you have the following rights:
- request access to your data
- ask for your data to be rectified if it is inaccurate
- request the portability of your data
- request the deletion of your data
- object, on legitimate grounds, to the processing of your data
You can exercise these rights by sending your request to the RicercarLab programme:
You may also contact the Data Protection Officer (DPO) of the University of Tours at the address dpo@univ-tours.fr if you have any questions about the processing of your data.
If you feel, after contacting us, that your rights have not been respected, you may also file a complaint with the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL).
Certains functions of this site rely on the use of cookies. Your consent regarding their use is not required since only necessary cookies, needed for the site to function properly, are deposited.
- csrftoken (retention: 12 months): protection against Cross Site Request Forgeries (CSRF) attacks
- django_language (retention: expires at browser close): language choice made by the user
- if the user is logged-in, sessionid (retention: 2 weeks): maintaining user authentication when browsing the site
The audience measurement tool used on the site is configured so as not to deposit tracking cookies; certain cookies required for its proper operation may nevertheless be deposited:
- matomo_ignore (retention: 30 years): deposited when the user chooses not to be included in data collection (cf. "Audience measurement" below)
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