Les technologies et le livre pour tous

The author traces a chronological history of digital and publishing technologies across forty years, outlining thirty-eight milestones from early character-encoding and bibliographic standards through the emergence of the internet, the web, universal character sets, portable reading devices, digital formats and archives, online catalogs and marketplaces, collaborative reference projects, open-access and licensing innovations, and large-scale digitization efforts; each entry summarizes technical origins, institutional developments, and consequences for access, multilingualism, metadata, publishing practices, pedagogy and librarianship, highlighting how standards, formats and community projects reshaped creation, distribution and preservation of written knowledge.