Data articles in SHS, societal issues and methodological innovations: call for papers

The editorial board of Data & Corpusan interdisciplinary data journal for the SHS, invites members of the research community to write a datapaper for publication in its first issue, due out in autumn 2025.

On March 31, 2025, a study day will be held at the MSH of the Université de Lorraine - CNRS, where the selected papers will be presented.

Thematic areas

  • Data production as part of participatory or action research, in line with the " Science with and for Society " (SAPS) label.
  • Methodological innovations in social sciences and humanities in a changing socio-technical context (digital humanities, artificial intelligence)

Communication proposals

  • Approximately 5,000 characters (including spaces and excluding bibliographies), in .odt, .docx or .pdf format, in French.
  • Title, surname, first name, e-mail address, status and institutional affiliation of (co-)authors
  • Brief description of the corpus / dataset that is the subject of the article ;
  • Methodological guidelines
  • Mention of the data warehouse and PID allowing access to the data (private URL if repository in progress)
  • Ideally, focus on the interdisciplinary dimension (data construction or potential reuse)

The calendar

  • Submission of communication proposals: December 19, 2024
  • Return of decisions to authors: January 31, 2025
  • Study day: March 31, 2025 in Nancy
  • Delivery of finished articles: June1, 2025
  • Publication of the first issue of Data & Corpus in the second half of 2025

Submissions should be sent to Florence Thiault(florence.thiault[@]univ-rennes2.fr), editor of Data & Corpus, and Audrey Knauf(audrey.knauf[@]univ-lorraine.fr), deputy editor.

For further information, please contact Julien Muller, editor of the journal Data & Corpus: julien.muller[@]univ-lorraine.fr

Call for papers in PDF format

To your feathers!