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Data Articles in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Societal Issues and Methodological Innovations: Call for Papers

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The journal's editorial board  Data & Corpus, an interdisciplinary data journal for the humanities and social sciences, invites members of the research community to submit adata paper for publication in its first issue, which will be released in the fall of 2025.

On March 31, 2025, a symposium will be held at the MSH of the University of Lorraine – CNRS, where the selected papers will be presented.

Thematic Areas

  • Data generation in the context of participatory research or action research, in line with the“Science with and for Society” (SAPS) certification initiative
  • Methodological Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities, in a Changing Socio-Technical Context (Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence)

Call for Papers

  • Approximately 5,000 characters (including spaces, excluding bibliographies), in .odt, .docx, or .pdf format, in French
  • Include the title, last name, first name, email address, status, and institutional affiliation of the (co-)authors
  • A brief description of the corpus/dataset discussed in the article;
  • Methodological Guidelines
  • Reference to the data warehouse and the PID used to access the data (private URL if the data is currently being uploaded)
  • Ideally, focus on the interdisciplinary aspect (data construction or potential reuse)

The Schedule

  • Deadline for submitting abstracts: December 19, 2024
  • Notification of decisions to authors: January 31, 2025
  • Study Day: March 31, 2025, in Nancy
  • Deadline for submitting final drafts: June1, 2025
  • The first issue of *Data & Corpus* will be published in the second half of 2025

Proposals should be sent to Florence Thiault (florence.thiault[@]univ-rennes2.fr), editor-in-chief of the journal *Data & Corpus*, and Audrey Knauf (audrey.knauf[@]univ-lorraine.fr), associate editor.

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

The Call for Papers in PDF format

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