Huma-Num — Infrastructure Nationale de Recherche en Sciences Humaines et Sociales
Overview
Huma-Num is the French national research infrastructure for digital humanities and social sciences (SHS — Sciences Humaines et Sociales), operated by CNRS in partnership with Aix-Marseille Université and Campus Condorcet. Formally established as a TGIR (Très Grande Infrastructure de Recherche) in 2013 and elevated to IR* (Infrastructure de Recherche étoilée) status, it provides digital tools, services, and expertise for managing, preserving, and sharing research data in the humanities and social sciences.
While primarily serving humanities disciplines, Huma-Num is relevant to open science through its connection to the broader French open science infrastructure and its role as a French node of the European DARIAH and CLARIN ERICs.
Key Services
Nakala is a persistent storage and publication service for research data and collections that assigns persistent identifiers (handles) and exports to the Recherche Data Gouv catalogue. Isidore is a search platform aggregating French and European SHS open access publications and data. Sharedocs provides collaborative document management, and Stylo is a semantic text editor for scholarly writing with structured metadata. HumaNum Box offers collaborative file sharing and storage for research teams. Finally, Huma-Num supports 30+ national discipline-specific consortia (CAHIER, CORLI, and others) for data standardisation in their fields.
DARIAH and CLARIN Membership
Huma-Num is the French node of two European ERICs. France is a founding member of DARIAH-EU, which supports digital methods and infrastructure for arts and humanities research across Europe. France joined CLARIN-EU as an observer member in 2017; CLARIN provides language resources and technology infrastructure for linguistics and language-based research.
Connections
- Operated by: CNRS / Aix-Marseille Université
- Storage/publication: Nakala → Recherche Data Gouv (catalogue integration)
Resources
- https://www.huma-num.fr
- https://documentation.huma-num.fr/humanum-en/ (English documentation)
- https://nakala.fr (Nakala data publication service)