The catalog Les sculptures de la villa romaine de Chiragan (Sculptures from the Roman Villa of Chiragan), developed for the Musée Saint-Raymond, combines scientific research with editorial experimentation based on web technologies ¹. The museum holds more than 700 sculpted fragments discovered in Chiragan (Martres-Tolosane), around a hundred of which are on display. While previous research focused mainly on specific groups of works, this catalog offers a broader view, including works that have never been studied before. Structured in four parts (context and reconstruction of the villa, imperial and anonymous portraits, mythological sculpture, and late decorative works), it combines scientific texts, detailed descriptions, complete bibliographies, and comparative images. A dedicated photographic campaign offers high-definition visuals, some of which can be manipulated in 360°. ²

Its multi-media publishing chain, inspired by the Getty Museum, was designed by Julie Blanc and Antoine Fauchié. The system allows for the simultaneous production of a digital version and a printed version from a single source, known as single source publishing.

This architecture is based on open web standards (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and a combination of interoperable open source tools: Jekyll for generating the static site, Paged.js for print layout from the browser, Git and GitLab for collaborative versioning, Zotero for managing bibliographic references, and Forestry.io as a graphical editorial interface for the museum team. ³

The content, written in Markdown and then converted to HTML, is entered once and adapted for both web and print; the PDF is generated from the browser via Paged.js. The texts and images are distributed under a Creative Commons BY-SA license, in accordance with the City of Toulouse’s open data policy. ⁴

The structure of this project is based on the principles of interoperability, modularity, and multiformity. Thanks to Git, all stakeholders work on the same source files, with changes automatically reflected on both media, thus constituting an open, collaborative, and reproducible editorial model. ⁵