Current Research Themes
🧠 Artificial Intelligence & Archives
☁ Cloud Archiving
📦 Big Data Governance
🏛 Digital Preservation
♿ Archive Accessibility
🔐 Right to be Forgotten
📚 Digital Libraries
🗂 Records Management
Academic News
2026 Article accepted on the interdisciplinarity of information science programs in Arab universities.
2025 Research project funded by Sultan Qaboos University on AI and medical records management.
2025 Recent work on archive accessibility, digital preservation and digital transformation in Oman.
Conferences & Symposia Organized
CIBAHN‑20
Digital Tools & Uses 2
Libraries & Archives · Digital Humanities
CIBAHN‑18
Digital Tools & Uses 1
Paris 8 · ACM ICPS 2018
CIBAHN‑16
Digital Archiving and Networks
Tunis · ISD Editions 2016
CiDE‑15
Information, Library & Archive Professions
Digital Differentiation · Tunis 2012
Published & Edited Books
Archives in the Digital Age: Preservation and the Right to be Forgotten
Archiving has become an increasingly complex process. The challenge is no longer to store data, but to store it intelligently so that it can be exploited over time while maintaining its integrity and authenticity. This book examines how the right to memory confronts the right to be forgotten.
Les archives à l'ère du numérique : Préservation et droit à l'oubli
French edition — examines the growing complexity of digital archiving and the tension between the right to memory and the right to be forgotten.
DTUC '18: Proceedings of the 1st Digital Tools & Uses Congress
First international Digital Tools & Uses Congress: multidisciplinary conference with five symposia — Web Studies, IoT, Recommender Systems, CIBAHN, and Digital Frontiers.
Information, Library and Archive Professions in the Age of Digital Differentiation
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Electronic Document (CiDE.15): digitization, document life cycle, digital sustainability, metadata, social networks.
Digital Archiving and Networks – Proceedings of CIBAHN 2016
Proceedings of the first edition of CIBAHN: a forum on the transformation of the archivist profession in the age of social web.
Collaborative Information Retrieval: Rethinking IRS Architecture in the Digital Age
Use of XML towards the Semantic Web, ontologies, semantic annotation and collaborative work tools — illustrated by the ICRS system.
Digital Reading and Web Uses
Papers from the ISD study days of April 2009 on digital reading: ten French and Tunisian researchers on the changes in reading in the digital age.
Hypermedia: Design and Implementation (chapters 1 & 2)
Two chapters: From Hypertext to Hypermedia (overview of hypertext and the HyWebMap system) and Hypermedia in the Service of Collaborative Work (ICRS and Hypertectol, Paragraphe Lab, Paris 8).