LaCAS (Open Archive in Language and Cultural Area Studies) is intended as a reference tool for the areal studies research community. This platform was developed by the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) which harvests, aggregates, structures and enriches heterogeneous areal studies resources from open archives and data repositories. LaCAS classifies and structures these data for editorial use on LaCAS Publications by aligning and linking heterogeneous data (text, video, sound, images) harvested from multiple repositories (HAL, Zenodo, Nakala, Gallica, Calame, Isidore, Persée, Open Alex, Semantic Scholar) and thanks to a substantial and regularly enriched thesaurus.
LaCAS received SESAME funding from the Île-de-France region and IdEx funding from Université Paris-Cité.