Published in paper format on a continuous tri-monthly basis since 1928, the OIV Bulletin is an essential source of information for all actors in the wine field: a century's worth of knowledge and vitivinicultural regulations in the digital age.
Dating from 1928 to 2014, more than 1000 issues of the Bulletin will be published, within which nearly 300 000 articles published in the international press will be highlighted. These constitute an exceptional library of statistics, regulations, scientific and technical work, and recommendations – a veritable testament to a century of evolution of vitiviniculture, which has become truly global.
During the presentation event, which was held in Dijon on 29 November 2016, OIV Assistant to the Director General Yann Juban praised the exemplariness of this partnership that allows the world of vine and wine to have digital access to this entire unique collection of the OIV Bulletin. It is all thanks to the initiative of the University of Bourgogne, the expertise of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Human sciences institute for research, MSH) and the support of various partners, including the AIDV.
As indicated by one of MSH's Assistant Directors Jean Vigreux, the project – developed by this institute for research following its successful tender for the French Digital Scientific Library (Bibliothèque Scientifique Numérique, BSN) – breathes new life into these bulletins. Not only has it produced a digital version of the often-difficult-to-access paper documents, it also provides powerful research tools that make it possible to selectively search millions of pages representing almost a century of vitivinicultural knowledge and regulations.
Thanks to the digital tool, doctors, ampelographers, oenologists, legal professionals, economists, historians, geographers, linguists and wine lovers will all find useful resources in this document resource – the first examples of which were presented during this restoration event by Benjamin Bois, President of the OIV "Viticulture" Commission.
Integrated into the PANDOR portal of MSH Dijon, this multi-disciplinary resource may both be filtered by thematic indexes relating to the field in question (authors, geographical locations, designations, OIV Congresses, etc.) and searched in plain text mode. This also carries this invaluable corpus into the digital humanities and data mining age, as specified by Professor Laurent Gautier, the scientific director of this project, which comprises over 100 000 digital files equating to a total volume of 5 To of data.
This safeguarded heritage is thus available, accessible and usable. Its digitisation meets current demands for knowledge sharing and enhances vine-and-wine knowledge. Very soon the 'paper' collection thus digitised will be supplemented by the latest issues dating from 1999 to 2014.
Today the OIV is pursuing its mission to collect, process and ensure the diffusion of the most relevant information and to communicate it by publishing all scientific communications since 2014 from the World congresses of vine and wine via an online digital publishing platform, as well as still producing online reviews of the international press.
This day was presided over by Iñigo Nagore Ferrer (Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment for La Rioja), Jean-Pierre Dal Pont (President of the French Society of Chemical Experts; SECF), Julio Rubio García (President of the University of La Rioja) and José Miguel Martínez Zapater (Director of the Institute of Grapevine and Wine Sciences; ICVV). Additionally, researchers from various research centres and universities, as well as representatives from the Ministry for Agriculture, Fishing, Food and Environment (MAGRAMA), the Spanish Wine Federation (FEV), wineries and professionals in the vitivinicultural sector and in traceability, as well as students, were among the 200 or so people who took part.
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On this occasion they had a number of meetings with the ministers and representatives of OIV Member Countries present at this event.
Additionally, at the initiative of Ms Kordula Kovac, member of the German Bundestag (national parliament) and also President of the "Wine Group", the OIV President and Director General again met with Mr Edmond Panariti, Albanian Minister for Agriculture. Mr Panariti confirmed having initiated the process designed to lead to the presentation of Albania's candidacy to the OIV.
A meeting with the Japanese Ambassador in Germany, Mr Takeshi Yagi, also made it possible to present the OIV, at a time when wine consumption is developing in Japan and quality vitivinicultural production is progressively being implemented.
The contest was sponsored by the OIV, and featured nearly five hundred samples of wines and spirits from around fifteen different countries.
During his stay, Jean-Marie Aurand met with the Moldovan Minister for Agriculture and the Food Industry, Eduard Grama.
The latter expressed his desire to strengthen ties between his country and the OIV, while Moldova has committed to a major modernisation programme for the vitivinicultural sector. The Minister reported on the investments that had been made in vinification equipment, as well as in vineyards, with the aim of improving wine quality; he was also pleased to report the positive results obtained in exports as a result of a highly dynamic promotion strategy for Moldovan wines, led with the involvement of the Office of Wines, as well as the diversification of market outlets.
Moldova produces an average of 1.5 million hectolitres of wine per year, of which 80% is exported.
The Director General was pleased with the positive collaboration that exists between the OIV and Moldova, which was demonstrated last year when the Director of the Office of Wines was elected to the presidency of an expert group, and reiterated his commitment to an even more active participation of Moldovan expertise within the Organisation’s scientific bodies.