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About this journal

The Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) aims to be a key part of a thriving community of scholars sharing humanities data. The journal features peer reviewed publications describing humanities research objects or techniques with high potential for reuse. Humanities subjects of interest to JOHD include, but are not limited to Art History, Classics, History, Library Science, Linguistics, Literature, Media Studies, Modern Languages, Music and musicology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, etc. Submissions that cross one or more of these traditional disciplines are particularly encouraged.

 

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  • Deadline Extention - Language datasets reuse: opportunities, challenges, and best practices

    The deadline for submitting to the Special Collection "Language Datasets Reuse: Opportunities, Challenges, and Best Practices" has been extended to March 01, 2026.

    This Special Collection aims to showcase how existing deposited mono- and multilingual language datasets in any modality have been reused in the context of a research project spanning any field of the humanities disciplines. Additionally, the reuse case may lead to a new dataset being created. We welcome contributions describing both successful cases of language data reuse and less successful ones, with a related discussion of the encountered issues and problems. We also welcome position papers on what data creators need to pay attention to when creating new datasets in order to maximise the future reuse potential of language datasets by researchers within and beyond their own discipline.

    For more information on submitting to the collection, please see the full description on the collection page: https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/language-datasets-reuse 

  • Call for Papers: Open Data for Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics

    This special Collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) is dedicated to open data for quantitative diachronic linguistics. The collection focuses on Data Papers that describe open, well-documented datasets designed for the empirical study of linguistic change, regardless of language, language family, or historical period. Submissions must include details on dataset creation, structure, annotation process, and potential reuse, in line with JOHD's principles of transparency and reproducibility. Discussion Papers that engage with or build upon published datasets are also accepted. Submissions may address diachronic corpora, quantitative data for the analysis of language change, annotated datasets at various language levels, lexical and grammatical changes, interlingual comparative data, historical texts, and computational modeling of diachronic linguistic phenomena. Contributions discussing best practices for dataset creation and management are encouraged.

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