The catalogue The Sculptures of the Roman Villa at Chiragan, produced for the Musée Saint-Raymond, combines scholarly research with innovative publishing techniques based on web technologies (web.2print.org). The museum holds over 700 sculpted fragments discovered at Chiragan (Martres-Tolosane), around a hundred of which are on display. Whilst previous research focused mainly on specific groups of works, this catalogue offers a broader perspective, including works that have never been studied before. Structured in four parts (context and reconstruction of the villa, imperial and anonymous portraits, mythological sculpture, major late-period decorations), it combines scholarly texts, detailed descriptions, comprehensive bibliographies and comparative images. A dedicated photographic campaign provides high-definition images, some of which can be viewed in 360°. ¹

Its multi-platform publication system, inspired by the Getty Museum, was designed by Julie Blanc and Antoine Fauchié. The system enables the simultaneous production of a digital version and a printed version from a single source (single-source publishing).

This architecture is based on open web standards (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and a suite of interoperable open-source tools: Jekyll for generating the static site, Paged.js for browser-based print layout, Git and GitLab for collaborative version control, Zotero for managing bibliographic references, and Forestry.io as a graphical editorial interface for the museum team. ²

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 licence, in accordance with the City of Toulouse’s open data policy. ³

The structure of this project is based on the principles of interoperability, modularity and versatility. Thanks to Git, all stakeholders work on the same source files, with changes automatically reflected across both platforms, thus constituting an open, collaborative and reproducible editorial model. ⁴