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organisation was the first to propose a new approach based on collective bargaining as
               a  means  of  resolving  conflicts.  PELICHET's  expertise  supported  the  move  from  the
               League of Nations to the United Nations Organisation. With 63 member countries, the
               League of Nations has, over its 27 years of existence, enabled numerous international
               exchanges and negotiations to take place between different countries and in different
               languages.

               The archives from this period, classified in the archives of the United Nations Library,
               comprising  more  than  120,000  official  documents,  27,000  maps  and  plans,  9,000
               photographs, almost 3 linear kilometres and a total of 500,000 documentary units, can
               now be consulted by anyone, and more than a million consultations have already been
               recorded.

               Inclusion  in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register The exceptional nature of this
               abundant  documentation  has  been  declared  a  World  Heritage  Site  by  UNESCO.
               Because of the unique nature of these archives, the United Nations Office at Geneva
               decided in 2017 to preserve them digitally so that they could then be made available to
               the general public on the Internet.

               The LONTAD (Total Access To the League Of the Nations Archives) project was then
               launched with Colin Wells as project leader.

               The project involved 30 people divided into different areas of expertise: the first area
               prepared the archives (decontamination and consolidation of documents, repackaging
               in  neutral  boxes)  for  delivery  to  the  selected  heritage  digitisation  service  provider,
               Arkhênum. Once the digitisation and data enhancement phase had been completed, the
               digital images were then transferred to the last department, which was responsible for
               quality control of the images, their description and indexing on the online platform.

               A dedicated digitisation workshop set up at the United Nations Given the scale of the
               project, the United Nations Office at Geneva decided to digitise its historical archives in-
               house  in  order  to  optimise  turnaround  times  and  facilitate  exchanges  between  the
               various  departments.  Another  major  decision  was  to  entrust  the  digitisation  of  its
               heritage to a service provider specialising in this field.

               An international call for tenders was launched at the end of 2017. 18 service providers
               offered their services for this unusual project. In the end, Arkhênum, in association with
               the PELICHET group, won the tender.

               A fully autonomous digitisation workshop was set up on the UN premises in Geneva to
               work in synergy with the UN's two other centres of expertise. In addition to this module,
               which was up and running in just 2 months, there is a complete production workshop
               comprising  7  heritage  scanners  accompanied  by  their  software  suites,  storage  and
               backup systems. Over the 4 years of digitisation, 220 terabytes of data were generated,
               totalling 14.2 million digital images.
               In order to carry out this digitisation project, which was unprecedented in terms of the
               volume involved, Arkhênum assigned 6 people to the project on a full-time basis for the
               duration  of  the  contract.  This  independent  workshop  was  managed  by  Lisa  Le  Goff,


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