Revue3.0 Partnership Report - 2024-2025

1. Revue3.0: Writing, Transmitting, Discovering

The ambition of Revue3.0 is to produce the scientific knowledge necessary to enable the diversity of epistemological models of scholarly journals in the humanities to be implemented in digital environments. The partnership thus constitutes both a site for theoretical research on the production, dissemination, and legitimation of knowledge in the digital age, and a space for experimenting with new models, protocols, and tools aimed at the editorial tasks of scholarly journals.

To achieve this goal, the partnership brings together 25 co-researchers, 14 journals in the humanities, as well as several strategic partners: the two main French-language digital publishers for scholarly journals (Érudit and OpenEdition), the French-language digital infrastructure Huma-Num, the bibliographic management software Zotero, the annotation tool Hypothes.is, the Laboratory for Research on Hypermedia Works (NT2), the Métopes infrastructure (digital editorial workflows), the Maison des sciences de l’homme en Bretagne (MSHB), which initiated a journal incubator, and the strategic network CRIHN. The work is organized into a set of projects (16 active projects in total), each falling under at least one of the three research axes (Writing, Transmitting, Discovering) and involving at least one partner and two co-researchers.

1.1. Objectives of the Scientific Report

This report aims to inform the Scientific Committee and all members of Revue3.0 about research activities, completed projects, training initiatives, and knowledge dissemination undertaken within the partnership, as well as future perspectives. It will also serve as a reference tool to verify the achievement of the mid-term objectives of the funding (October 31, 2027), which are detailed in the progress report attached to this document. The elements of this report and the issues raised by the Scientific Committee will be discussed during the Revue3.0 General Assembly, to be held on November 20, 2025, as part of the partnership’s second plenary meeting (the first in-person).

After an initial section dedicated to general information, this report provides a detailed account for each research axis. These accounts are based on the axis reports prepared by the axis directors, as well as on project reports previously prepared by the coordinators of each project and compiled by the axis coordinators.

1.2. Partnership Organization: Projects

Each project must fall under at least one research axis and involve at least two coresearchers and one partner. It must also have a principal coordinator and result in at least one scientific publication as well as at least one technical deliverable (experiment, tool, documentation, or protocol).

The partnership currently comprises 16 research projects, of which 3 have already been completed. All project reports and axis reports are included in the second section of this document.

Mid-term objectives (October 31, 2027): By this date, we aim to have completed experiments related to at least twelve projects, i.e., four per research axis. Additionally, an analysis phase associated with these projects will have begun.

1.3. Partnership Organization: Governance System

The project’s governance is structured around several committees: the Executive Committee serves as the operational and decision-making body of the partnership; the Axis Committees ensure the alignment of projects with the technical and theoretical goals of Revue3.0; the Scientific Committee provides advisory input on the overall research approach; the Training and Dissemination Committee approves annual training and dissemination plans, in collaboration with the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (EDID) Committee. The EDID Committee is consulted by all other committees and ensures that EDID concerns are considered both in research objectives and in organizational practices that implement them.

A more detailed description of roles and responsibilities within the governance of Revue3.0 is available on the partnership website: https://revue30.org/pages/gouvernancecomite/.

General issues (including budget management, committee composition, and initiation of new projects) are discussed annually during the General Assembly. During the first year of funding, several meetings were held within each committee. While the Executive Committee is now fully operational, the full activation of the other bodies will be discussed at the General Assembly on November 20. During this first year of funding, we also identified the need to establish a governance system within each research axis to ensure effective communication and regular monitoring of activities between the leadership, axis directors, and project coordinators. At its meeting on May 21, 2025, the Executive Committee approved a clear distribution of tasks and responsibilities between project coordinators and axis directors. This document was then shared with all project coordinators. The essential elements of the document are detailed below.

↪ Ensure the scientific orientation of the axis in dialogue with partnership leadership and overall coordination

↪ Ensure the feasibility, quality, and scientific relevance of projects within the axis

↪ Collect project reports for the axis 15 days before each Revue3.0 Executive Committee (EC) meeting

↪ Based on these reports, prepare a general report on the axis progress and submit it to coordination at least 5 days before each EC meeting

↪ Monitor the work and funding of project coordinators and project managers within the axis

↪ Prepare a progress report 15 days before each EC meeting and submit it to the axis directors

↪ Develop and update the project activity schedule

↪ Contribute to defining project objectives

↪ Inform the general coordination of the project status and report any issues, difficulties, or challenges identified

↪ Update the project page on the partnership website

↪ Ensure internal communication among project members and external communication on behalf of the project members

↪ Set up a shared storage space containing documents and information useful to project members

↪ When relevant, complete the form for the partnership newsletter

↪ When relevant, organize follow-up meetings with project members

↪ Ensure the delivery of at least one technical deliverable before the end of the project

↪ Ensure the delivery of at least two theoretical deliverables (communications or publications) and, where applicable, participate in their preparation

↪ When relevant, inform general coordination of contracts to be established within the project

1.4. Partnership Organization: Internal and External Communication

We have finalized the partnership website, a platform for presentation and synthesis that details all activities undertaken, as well as a blog built using the Stylo tool, allowing coresearchers and team members to report on project progress and share their reflections. A monthly newsletter also keeps members informed about the partnership’s most recent activities. Additionally, resource sharing and discussion among members are facilitated through the partnership’s Discourse forum, a public online space. This also provides an opportunity to experiment with alternative forms of online sharing beyond the major social media platforms.

2. Timeline and Expected Deliverables

By the end of the first year of funding, we had launched 16 projects aimed at producing the first technical deliverables during the second semester of 2025. To date, the following accomplishments have been achieved:

↪ 7 presentations at national and international conferences

↪ 4 technical deliverables completed ahead of schedule

↪ 1 podcast

↪ 1 research report

↪ 1 monograph

↪ 3 scientific articles

Deliverables to be achieved by mid-term (October 31, 2027):

↪ 9 presentations

↪ 4 peer-reviewed journal articles

↪ 1 book chapter

↪ 4 conference publications

↪ 1 research report

↪ 1 podcast

↪ 9 technical deliverables

2.1. Completed Technical Deliverables

  1. Custom metadata in Stylo: extension of metadata management functionalities for articles and article groups in Stylo (Axis 1).

    ↪ Target audience: academic and student communities, publishing sector actors.

  2. Unified authentication system for Stylo/Hypothesis (Axis 2).

    ↪ Target audience: academic and student communities, publishing sector actors.

  3. Crieur: a module enabling the production of websites from Stylo (Axis 3).

    ↪ Target audiences: researchers, students, general public, publishing sector actors.

  4. Project website: platform for presentation and synthesis of the partnership.

    ↪ Target audience: academic community and general public.

Several additional deliverables will be completed by the end of 2026. The full list is as follows:

  1. Design of a prototype for a repository of editorial processes (Axis 1).
  2. Development of infratextual markup in Stylo, enabling the addition of semantic content within the body of the text (Axis 1).
  3. Prototype application allowing the use of the artificial language IEML for scientific article search (Axis 2).
  4. Improvement of exports in Stylo and finalization of Export Commons (used in OpenEdition’s editorial chain) (Axis 3).
  5. Creation of the Cabinet of Curiosities of Scholarly Journals (Axis 3).

We are currently working on updating the website to integrate all projects that have not yet been documented.

2.2. Presentations Delivered

The full list of presentations delivered by the end of the second year of funding is presented below:

1. CRIHN 2025 Symposium in Honor of Stéfan Sinclair: Demonstration of the Stylo tool.

2. Digital Humanities: Engagement and Learning at the University: “Critical digital and textual literacy for SHS students: learning through experience with Stylo.”

3. CSDH 2025: “For critical implementations of AI in the humanities: Can we resist Big Tech monopolies?”

4. Humanistica 2025: “Writing practices and text epistemology: redefining the scholarly text with Stylo.”

5. DH2024: “Updates in the Stylo text editor.”

6. DH2024: “Beyond Open Access: Collaborative, Scholar-Led Academic Publishing Methods, Tools, and Workflows.”

7. LQM 2024: “Futures of scholarly journals in the humanities.”

2.3. Scholarly Publications (3 articles and 1 monograph)

Fauchié, Antoine, and Servanne Monjour. 2025.“Prendre soin de nos dispositifs techniques est une approche militante de l’édition ⋅ Entretien avec Antoine Fauchié. ”Humanités numériques, no.11 (July). https://doi.org/10.4000/1498z.

Vitali-Rosati, Marcello. 2020. “Pour une théorie de l’éditorialisation.” Humanités numériques, no.1 (January). https://doi.org/10.4000/revuehn.371.

———. 2024. “Comment Pensent Docx, TEI Et Ekdosis? Habiter l’espace Numérique.” Les Temps Qui Restent, no. 3 (December).

———. 2025. C’est la matière qui pense. Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre.

3. Training Activities and Student Involvement

3.1. Digital Literacy for Students and Professionals

1. Débogue tes humanités (2025-09-11–2026-01-29): The “Débogue tes humanités” workshop series constitutes a training space integrated into the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities. This year’s edition focuses on two aspects: first, learning about the hardware of our computers, and second, an introduction to the foundations of artificial intelligence, with particular attention to the needs of humanities students and researchers.

2. Stylo Training (2025-02-27): We offer training sessions on using the Stylo tool and mastering plain text formats. Developed as a research project within the partnership, Stylo functions both as a working environment and as a space for reflection on scholarly editorial practices in the humanities.

3. Programming for Humanists: An Introduction (2024-11-15–2024-11-30): This workshop was aimed at anyone wishing to acquire the basics of distant textual analysis using the Python programming language.

4. In addition to the activities mentioned above, part of the team provides a weekly video support session for Stylo users every Thursday, accessible via meet.jit.si/stylo.

3.2. Automation and Scholarly Editing

1. AI and Research Workshops (2025-01-30–2025-04-24): A series of workshops focused on exploring practices related to the use of LLM (Large Language Model) algorithms in humanities research. Every two weeks, a Revue3.0 co-researcher was invited to share their experiments and reflections on practical applications. These activities will resume in January 2026, allowing the workshop themes to be adjusted based on needs and interests identified during the plenary meeting.

2. Revue3.0 Presentation at the États généraux des revues scientifiques du Québec (2025-05-08): In partnership with the Réseau Circé (Réseau québécois de recherche et mutualisation pour les revues scientifiques), a training session was offered on issues related to artificial intelligence, as part of the États généraux des revues scientifiques du Québec. The training session was titled: “AI and Scholarly Journals: Exploring the Automation of Reviewer Search.”

3.3. Organization of Conferences and Seminars

Collaboration with CRIHN and the Chair in Digital Scholarly Publishing (Université de Rouen Normandie) enabled the Revue3.0 team to organize and participate in a rich and diverse schedule of conferences, workshops, and roundtables. The list below presents all the events to which the Revue3.0 team contributed or was invited:

  1. Roundtable on the Future of Major Journal Platforms (2025-11-19), organized in partnership with Réseau Circé during the Revue3.0 plenary meeting.
  2. Workshop series “Rethink the Human” (2025-09-16–2025-10-07, biweekly sessions), led by Pierre Lévy. A report is available here.
  3. Conference “Tinkering with Digital Editions” (2025-06-30–2025-07-01), organized in partnership with the Chair in Digital Scholarly Publishing (Université de Rouen Normandie and Région Normandie).
  4. Conference “Territories of History? Investigating Discreet Digital Practices” (2025-04- 21), organized in partnership with CRIHN.
  5. Workshop with Matteo Treleani (2025-04-14), report available here.
  6. Workshop “Editorializing the Reception of Public Art: Assemblages of Data, Photographs, and Analyses” (2025-04-07), organized in partnership with Maison MONA.
  7. Conference “New Perspectives on Critical Editions (Part 2)” (2025-04-03–2025-04-04), organized in partnership with CRIHN.
  8. Working Day on Textual Modeling (2025-03-25), organized in partnership with the Chair in Digital Scholarly Publishing (Université de Rouen Normandie and Région Normandie).
  9. Double Conference: The History of Open Access with Jean-Claude Guédon and the Trajectory of Criminocorpus with Marc Renneville (2025-03-24), organized in partnership with the Chair in Digital Scholarly Publishing (Université de Rouen Normandie and Région Normandie).
  10. Large Meeting of Journals (2025-01-29): a day dedicated to editorial teams of partner journals, providing a space to discuss current issues, experiments, projects, and needs of journals.
  11. Conference “New Initiatives in Digital Publishing at the University of Montreal” (2025-01-13), organized in partnership with Réseau Circé and the CRIHN.
  12. Workshop with Juan Luis Gastaldi (2024-11-29), report available here.
  13. Workshop with Tiberio Uricchio (2024-11-25), report available here.
  14. Roundtable “Challenges and Issues in Training for Scholarly Editing” (2024-11-29).

3.4. Students Funded by the Partnership

In September 2025, three new doctoral students (Juliette Sokolov, Nolwenn Pamart, Federico Siragusa) joined the Revue3.0 student team, which now comprises nine members. Their research directly engages with the technologies and theoretical approaches at the core of Revue3.0.

The first thesis funded by Revue3.0, written by Roch Delannay, has recently been completed and will be defended on November 5, 2025. It is co-supervised by the partnership director and two co-researchers, Emmanuel Château-Dutier and Michael E. Sinatra. This thesis focuses on the close relationship between digital writing environments and the production of meaning, which constitutes the main theoretical objective of the partnership.

The complete list of students funded by Revue3.0 is provided below. Students have been involved to varying degrees: some through occasional contracts (C), and the majority through an annual program of funding, training, and collaboration (F).

↪ 5 Canadian doctoral students:

↪ 10 international doctoral students:

↪ 1 postdoctoral researcher:

↪ 4 Canadian master’s students:

↪ 1 international master’s student:

↪ Canadian undergraduate students:

Objectives for the mid-term (October 31, 2027):

↪ Involvement of 3 Canadian doctoral students

↪ Involvement of 8 international doctoral students

↪ Involvement of 6 Canadian master’s students

↪ Involvement of 6 Canadian undergraduate students

4. Professionals Hired within the Partnership

↪ Canadian Providers:

↪ International Providers:

Mid-term objectives (October 31, 2027):

↪ Involvement of 2 Canadian providers

↪ Involvement of 4 international providers

Axis 1 (Write) — Report Provided by Axis Directors Nicolas Sauret and Michael Sinatra

1. Summary of Axis Progress

The Write axis examines the impact of tools, environments, and writing protocols on the production of meaning. It encompasses five projects that experimentally or practically implement tools and practices: three projects are related to Stylo (metadata redesign in Stylo, Stylo implementation by the journal Imaginations, Stylo/Pinkmypad integration); the bibliographic revision project explores the potential of AI for correcting and formatting references; and the final project aims to define a repository of editorial processes for journals.

Projects are at varying stages of progress, with some well advanced, and the planned actions for the coming months are clearly defined. It may be necessary to initiate exchanges between projects to maintain alignment with the axis’s objectives and challenges, as well as to involve additional partners, particularly journals, in actions that may require further consideration.

2. List of Projects in the Axis

  1. AI-assisted Bibliographic Revision

↪ Co-researchers: Servanne Monjour, Nicolas Sauret

↪ Partners: Humanités Numériques journal

↪ Coordination: Servanne Monjour

↪ Status: In progress

  1. Metadata Redesign in Stylo

↪ Co-researchers: Marcello Vitali-Rosati, Nicolas Sauret

↪ Partners: Métopes andHuma-Num

↪ Coordination: Clara Grometto

↪ Status: Completed

  1. Implementation of Stylo in the Imaginations Journal Workflow

↪ Co-researchers: Margot Mellet, Marcello Vitali-Rosati

↪ Partners: Imaginations

↪ Coordination: Clara Grometto

↪ Status: In progress

  1. Repository of Editorial Processes

↪ Co-researchers: Emmanuel Château-Dutier, Servanne Monjour

↪ Partners: Maison des sciences de l’homme en Bretagne (MSHB)

↪ Coordination: Louis-Olivier Brassard

↪ Status: In progress

  1. Pink my Stylo

↪ Co-researchers: Marcello Vitali-Rosati, Nicolas Sauret

↪ Partners: Huma-Num

↪ Coordination: Nicolas Sauret

3. Upcoming Projects

  1. Development of Intra-textual Markup in Stylo, enabling the addition of semantic content

↪ Co-researchers: Marcello Vitali-Rosati, Nicolas Sauret

↪ Partners: Métopes, Huma-Num

↪ Coordination: Clara Grometto

↪ Status: Initiation

4. Issues Raised for Discussion at the Next Executive Committee Meeting

  1. AI-assisted Bibliographic Revision: This project raises the essential question of the function and representation of bibliographies by authors. The project leaders propose organizing a study day on this topic, on which the Executive Committee could take action.
  2. Metadata Redesign in Stylo: At the request of the project team, the Executive Committee should be informed of recent developments and may propose orientations if necessary.

Axis1—Project Reports Provided by Project Coordinators

1. Metadata Redesign in Stylo

The project aims to improve the metadata structure in Stylo. It arises from three main needs: 1) generating metadata structures specific to certain journals, 2) generating metadata structures for other publication types (theses, dissertations, books, etc.), and 3) creating database filters from article metadata. The project is therefore closely linked to batch export functionality.

Furthermore, transforming the editor module into a dynamic component will allow adapting displayed fields according to different document types, adding custom scenarios, and integrating APIs to pre-fill certain fields. Development starts with the “journal article” scenario, followed by other use cases.

1.1. Recent Activities and Achievements

↪ Modification of metadata for journal articles: addition of several fields (including journal-specific fields) and improved handling of translated content

↪ User interviews

↪ Design and development of a new editor interface based on user interviews

↪ Establishment of differentiated metadata scenarios at the corpus level

↪ Addition of corpus-specific metadata for a given journal issue

↪ Transformation of the “text” entry containing YAML-serialized metadata to enable query/filtering functionality

1.2. Activities and Deliverables for the Next Semester

↪ Definition and support of five distinct corpus categories within the platform (thesis/dissertation, journal issue, blog, book, mixed/neutral)

↪ Implementation of differentiation logic in workflows and development of associated interfaces, including exports that consider structural metadata specific to each corpus type

↪ Design and development of a new corpus manager supporting this typology

↪ Document-level (UI/UX) improvements: creation of “filters” in the metadata module, providing differentiated forms to users depending on the target corpus type. This preserves the Single Source Publishing principle, allowing a document to serve simultaneously as a journal article and a blog post, for example, and to adapt easily (e.g., a meeting note becoming an article)

↪ Exports: display of explicit messages regarding metadata completeness; possibility to deposit a JSON Schema file in a workspace to generate fully customized metadata forms on the fly

↪ Conducting a new UX testing phase: gathering user feedback on the redesigned interface to continuously improve the editing experience; interface refinements based on feedback

↪ Identification of semantic intra-textual markup, integration into the interface, and handling through the export module

1.3. Points Requiring Feedback from the Executive Committee

↪ The Executive Committee needs to be informed about the current strategy, which involves a specific vision of editorial unity in Stylo. There is a single document type and two metadata entry modes:

↪ The actual differentiation does not occur at the level of a single document in the editing interface, but at the corpus processing level — particularly during batch export, where metadata models specific to each corpus type are applied, along with transformations adapted to the target format (HTML, LaTeX, etc.)

↪ Case of thesis export: ensuring reliable and performant remote LaTeX compilation appears impossible. The short-term strategy is to generate and provide a complete .tex file to the user, with a template conforming to academic standards, accompanied by local compilation documentation with necessary dependencies and recommendations(LuaLaTeX, packages, etc.).

2. Stylo Implementation Project in the Publication Workflow of Imaginations

This project aims to implement the Stylo tool within the publication workflow of the journal Imaginations. Currently, the journal integrates Markdown at the end of its workflow (after writing, review, and editing). The goal is to simplify the export process, which is currently managed by the editor-in-chief of the journal (Markus Reiseinleitner) using scripts(Python, Bash, Pandoc) to retrieve various information, convert formats, and publish content via the OJS system used by the journal. Integrating Stylo into the journal will also allow the text editor to accommodate new practices and information processing challenges, including further development of metadata recording, the journal-specific export page, and the “Corpus” functionality to support the publication of journal issues or special sections.

2.1. Recent Activities and Achievements

↪ Retro-conversion of a test corpus to Markdown on Stylo-Dev

↪ Development of an export to an HTML template applying the journal’s style

2.2. Activities and Deliverables for the Next Semester

↪ Retrieval of metadata from OJS into Stylo

3. A Reference Framework of Editorial Workflows

The project aims to define a reference framework for editorial models adopted by scholarly publications. This framework is presented as a form intended to help editorial boards define or develop their practices as a shared statement. It could also be implemented as a web-based editorial management service, interoperable with other digital tools for document editing, review, or web publication.

3.1. Recent Activities and Achievements

↪ Biweekly meetings among some project members

↪ Definition of classical editorial workflow models, particularly for traditionally structured journals

↪ Exploration of visualization models (UML diagrams, responsibility tables)

3.2. Activities and Deliverables for the Next Semester

↪ Elaborate the requirements that journals will need to express

↪ Identify common elements(eliminate overly specific cases)

↪ Produce a first visualization prototype (two-dimensional grid)

↪ Identify “test journals” for initial iteration testing

3.3. General Comments and Other Relevant Information

↪ Initial tests are planned for the fall, with a view to presenting them to journals during the plenary session in November

AI-Assisted Bibliographic Review

This project aims to test an AI-assisted copy preparation system. The proposed experiment focuses on a specific aspect: the review of bibliographies, whose structuring and formatting often lead to numerous errors despite the existence of tools such as Zotero. The project involves assessing the needs of editors and testing various tools and methodologies, while documenting the experiment to ensure reproducibility. It is conceived as the first stage of a long-term experiment, intended to evaluate the potential of AI in editorial preparation work while proposing technical and methodological solutions that respect the work of authors and editors. The ecological impact of the proposed solutions will also be considered.

4.1. Recent Activities and Achievements

↪ Interview with the editor of the journal HN

↪ Description and modeling of the bibliographic review process within the journal HN (several scenarios identified)

↪ Comparative tests conducted with multiple AI tools (both general-purpose tools and more specialized LLMs): ChatGPT, Duck AI, ReversedZotero (Bibtexer), AnyStyle

4.2. Activities and Deliverables for the Next Semester

↪ Our work has highlighted the need to reflect on the function and status (symbolic, scientific, editorial) of the bibliographic object. This reflection will be further developed during a colloquium on the “imaginary of the bibliography” to be held in Paris in December 2025

↪ Repeat tests with the same tools, aiming both to improve them and integrate them into a structured workflow

↪ Document the installation and operation of more specialized tools (notably AnyStyle) to facilitate their adoption

4.3. General Comments and Other Relevant Information

↪ Our group is aware that the main issue addressed by this project first relates to the poorly mastered (or entirely unmastered) use of bibliographic data management tools such as Zotero. Author competence is therefore essential, but it also raises broader questions regarding the function and representation of the bibliography today. Next year, we plan to organize a working day on these questions of bibliographic review.

Axe 2 (Transmit) — Report Provided by Axis Directors Susan Brown and Pierre Lévy

1. Summary of Axis Progress

This research axis investigates the modes of circulation and legitimation of scientific content, and how these conditions shape thought and research. Its main objective is to identify and enhance different forms of knowledge transmission accumulated before the digital transition—particularly journal archives. This knowledge often exists in a poor digital format (PDFs without keywords or even OCR), poorly tagged, not very visible, and not compliant with EDI standards for digital accessibility. Nevertheless, it represents a significant body of knowledge. We will analyze issues of accessibility and content structuring and, based on this, design and implement actions for semantic enrichment, visualization, and automated analysis, using recent natural language processing algorithms, including tagging, clustering, and classification. This enrichment serves as a starting point for the subsequent design and deployment of adequate transmission and dissemination infrastructures. The axis directors have expressed interest in the following projects:

↪ Experimentation with the Artificial Language IEML for Scientific Article Research, led by Pierre Lévy

↪ Experiments with the Hypothes.is tool, led by Susan Brown

2. List of Projects Included in the Axis

  1. Experimentation with the Artificial Language IEML for Scientific Article Research

    ↪ Co-researchers: Pierre Lévy, Marcello Vitali-Rosati

    ↪ Partners: Érudit

    ↪ Coordination: Alexia Schneider

    ↪ Status: Ongoing

3. Upcoming Projects

  1. Integration of a Semantic Annotation Tool in Stylo: Linked Open Data allows textual content to be enriched explicitly and semantically. Developed within the LINCS partnership and under the direction of Susan Brown, the Beta NLP application extracts named entities from TXT-formatted texts and links them to corresponding Wikidata identifiers. This project aims to integrate this application into the Stylo editor, enabling automatic enrichment of content and compatibility with an open, collaborative data structure. Other semantic enrichment projects may also be developed in this perspective, offering journals new possibilities for analyzing and connecting their publications.

    ↪ Co-researcher: Susan Brown

    ↪ Partners: Huma-Num

    ↪ Coordination: Alexia Schneider

  2. Exploration of the Potential Integration of Linked Open Data in Hypothes.is for Use in Academic Journals

    ↪ Co-researcher: Susan Brown

    ↪ Partners: Hypothesis

    ↪ Coordination: Rose Wagner

  3. Semantic Enrichment of Bibliographies: While it is now possible to semantically enrich scientific bibliographies (e.g., using BibTeX), this fine-grained structuring is generally lost during the production of output formats intended for readers and indexing algorithms. Within the Revue3.0 project, we are collaborating with Métopes to produce a TEI Commons-publishing output with a semantically structured bibliography. Commons is a schema developed through the collaboration of OpenEdition, Métopes, Certic, and the Pôle Document Numérique de Caen, with the ambition of becoming the standard for scholarly publications in the humanities and social sciences, hence its future integration into Stylo.

    ↪ Co-researcher: Marcello Vitali-Rosati

    ↪ Partners: Métopes and Zotero

  4. Integration of the Cosma Visualization Tool into Stylo

    ↪ Co-researcher: Marcello Vitali-Rosati

    ↪ Partners: Huma-Num

    ↪ Coordination: Louis-Olivier Brassard

4. Issues to Be Discussed at the Next Executive Committee Meeting

↪ IEML: Next steps and key challenges in the coming months.

↪ Hypothes.is: Initial exchanges established with Sens Public and Journal of Digital History; collaboration to be extended to other journals.

Axis 2 – Project Reports Provided by Project Coordinators

1. Experimentation with the Artificial Language IEML for Scientific Article Research

The project aims to explore the potential of the artificial language IEML, created by Pierre Lévy, for humanities and social sciences journals. The central challenge concerns the control of the information produced and disseminated: in an era where statistical models dominate information retrieval systems, how can one define a semantic framework unambiguously without restricting data to a precise ontological model? IEML, as a semantic explicitation matrix whose syntactic rules allow the creation of flexible ontologies, is a promising language to address this challenge.

The project also aims to integrate a semantic modeling system in IEML into Stylo.

1.1. Recent Activities and Achievements

↪ Coordination among project members (Pierre Lévy and Marcello Vitali-Rosati in leadership, Alexia Schneider for execution).

↪ Familiarization with the libraries developed for IEML: dictionary and C++ parser developed by Louis van Beurden. Compilation issues delayed this step. A new parser in Python is under development to better integrate IEML with project needs.

↪ Definition of the problem based on preliminary experiments on a practical case:

↪ Experiments with existing tools for using IEML:

These linking strategies do not yet define the relationships observed; the potential of IEML for semantic representation is not fully exploited.

The first months of research primarily served to define the problem specific to IEML and the representation of meaning in a partially decontextualized keyword corpus.

Current program capabilities: - Validation of an IEML sentence according to syntactic and grammatical rules (parsing). - Correlation of terms in French, English, and IEML using the dictionary.

1.2. Activities and Achievements Planned for the Next Semester

Medium-term objectives of the project:

↪ Integrate logical connectors into the parser to automatically reconstruct a paradigm.

↪ Generalize the algorithm for transforming natural language data into approximate IEML from pre-existing IEML sentences.

↪ Integrate a visualization program, either for a semantic field or for a corpus, with ongoing reflection on creating a dynamic representation.

2. Experiments with the Hypothes.is Tool

This project aims to explore possible interactions between web annotations made with Hypothes.is and linked open data (LOD) related to the same articles. The goal is to establish collaboration between this tool and partner journals, while experimenting with the integration of the semantic web into collaborative annotation practices.

2.1. Activities and Achievements Planned for the Next Semester

↪ Identify possibilities for manipulating the software, particularly regarding the integration of linked open data.

↪ Define realistic and concrete objectives for the next project phases.

2.2. Points Requiring Feedback from the Executive Committee

Understand how to initiate exchange and communication with the Hypothes.is team.

Axis 3 (Discover) – Report Provided by Axis Directors JulietteDe Maeyer and Servanne Monjour

1. Summary of the Axis Progress

Axis Discover now includes four active projects, as well as one project in development for 2025. These projects have advanced the work of the axis across three scientific dimensions:

↪ Research dimension: An ongoing field survey, led by the doctoral students of the Revue30 project, allows us to better map and understand the discoverability practices of partner journals, while identifying contemporary challenges for the discoverability of digital journals. Early results reveal a relative visibility deficit despite digital dissemination. Factors such as the volume and flow of publications and insufficient indexing have been identified. We have also hypothesized a problem of sociability specific to the ecosystem of scholarly journals, increasingly regarded solely as venues for publication rather than sites of discussion or debate — within the broader context of a crisis in digital sociability. Parallel work by our partner Huma-Num, focusing on the Isidore search engine, explores AI-related issues in journal discoverability, opening research avenues regarding future research practices and skills of editors and users: researchers.

↪ Development and tooling dimension: Project teams have developed the Crieur, a Python module designed to generate scientific journal websites from document corpora produced in the Stylo online editor. The goal, within a Single Source Publishing approach, is to improve data quality in journals. As an alternative to traditional CMSs, the Crieur can also facilitate the retroconversion of journals (*Revue internationale de photolittérature*) for digital archiving of printed journals (*Revue 21-20*), or simplify the publication of new journals natively digital.

↪ Experimental dimension: To transform scholarly journals into sites of scientific sociability (not only digital), the Sens Public annotation project aims to make the article evaluation process more visible, turning journals into spaces for scientific debate. A forum project for journals has also been initiated to address this challenge. Regarding AI-related issues,Huma-Num developed a proof of concept for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in ISIDORE.

2. List of Projects

  1. ISIDORE2030

    ↪ Co-researchers: Marcello Vitali-Rosati, Nicolas Sauret

    ↪ Partners: Huma-Num

    ↪ Coordination: Stéphane Pouyllau

    ↪ Status: Ongoing

  2. Discoverability Practices of Journals

    ↪ Co-researchers: Servanne Monjour, Juliette De Maeyer

    ↪ Partners: None

    ↪ Coordination: Victor Chaix

    ↪ Status: Ongoing

  3. Annotation Protocol in Sens Public

    ↪ Co-researchers: Margot Mellet, Marcello Vitali-Rosati

    ↪ Partners: Sens Public (partner integration in progress)

    ↪ Coordination: Adrien Savard-Arsenault

    ↪ Status: Ongoing

  4. Le Crieur: Automatic Production of Journal Websites from Stylo Articles

    ↪ Co-researchers: Marcello Vitali-Rosati, Servanne Monjour

    ↪ Partners: Huma-Num

    ↪ Coordination: Clara Grometto

    ↪ Status: Completed

3. Upcoming Projects

  1. Cabinet of Curiosities for Journals

    ↪ Co-researchers: Servanne Monjour, Juliette De Maeyer

    ↪ Partners: the 14 scholarly journals participating in the project

    ↪ Coordination: Servanne Monjour, Juliette De Maeyer

  2. Creation of a Schematron to Validate the “XML Érudit” Export Generated from Stylo

    ↪ Co-researchers: Marcello Vitali-Rosati

    ↪ Partners: Érudit

    ↪ Coordination: Federico Siragusa

  3. Creation of the Commons Export from Stylo

    ↪ Co-researchers: Marcello Vitali-Rosati

    ↪ Partners: Métopes

    ↪ Coordination: Clara Grometto

4. Issues for Discussion at the Next Executive Committee Meeting

↪ ISIDORE 2030: How to build on the proof of concept to further develop the project? It also seems useful to reflect on researchers’ expectations and research practices, as well as their skills.

↪ Le Crieur: A static site generator for workflows starting from Stylo sources. To go further, this project will require additional workforce for the retroconversion of articles (possibly via an internship?). It may also be useful to study ways to leverage these data beyond a simple showcase website.

Axis 3 – Project Reports Provided by Project Coordinators

1. ISIDORE 2030

ISIDORE 2030 is a research and engineering program in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) aimed at renewing the features of the academic search engine and assistant isidore.science. Launched in 2010, isidore.science, like other discovery tools, is continuously evolving. The generalization of generative and selective artificial intelligences (AI) strongly impacts research instruments, which must evolve while remaining functional for the communities they serve. After 13 years of indexing and documentary enrichment, isidore.science has aged and is at a crossroads: how to renew it and what direction to take while continuing to exploit it? The presentation will outline the main workstreams of ISIDORE 2030 while reviewing the steps accomplished over the past years.

1.1. Recent Activities and Achievements of the Project

Development of a proof of concept to implement “retrieval-augmented generation” (RAG) in ISIDORE.

1.2. Upcoming Activities and Achievements for the Next Semester

Expected functionalities:

↪ Content analysis and corpus matching

↪ Dashboards enabling the creation of state-of-the-art overviews on scientific questions

↪ Automatic summaries and document syntheses

↪ Translation and quality analysis(rare or historical languages, etc.)

↪ Exploration of scientific communities

↪ Detection of emerging topics and communities

↪ Scientific monitoring

↪ Detection of long-tail topics

↪ Qualitative improvement of metadata

2. Annotation Protocol in Sens Public

This project aims to implement a fully open evaluation protocol for the journal Sens Public. In the current protocol, the identities of reviewers are known to the authors and vice versa, but reviewers do not have access to each other’s comments. The goal is therefore to expand transparency in evaluation. Using the Stylo text editor and the Hypothes.is annotation tool, Sens Public intends to allow all actors in the review and evaluation process to interact on the same document. Concretely, reviewers are encouraged to provide openly visible comments to the author as well as to other reviewers. All participants can then respond to and engage with these comments. The goal is to foster dialogue among researchers and make scholarly conversation a promising vehicle for scientific writing. Over the course of these experiments, the project also seeks to explore new ways to encourage scientific conversation and improve the evaluation protocol based on ongoing reflections.

2.1. Recent Activities and Achievements of the Project

↪ Since the beginning of the project, around twenty evaluations have been completed under a fully open protocol, covering a sample of approximately twelve articles. We are compiling and keeping records of interactions between authors and reviewers, adapting the protocol based on feedback.

↪ We are also tracking reviewer participation rates and their reactions to the open evaluation process.

↪ By adjusting solicitation emails and providing support throughout the evaluation process, we aim to determine what encourages or discourages reviewers to engage and how their practices might evolve during the process.

2.2. Upcoming Activities and Achievements for the Next Semester

↪ Preliminary results will be presented at the Revue3.0 plenary meeting in November 2025.

↪ The documentation available on the Sens Public website will be redesigned to provide clearer guidance for reviewers and authors. Beyond this, we plan to continue documenting and dynamically adapting the article evaluation process.

3. Discoverability Practices of Journals

This project aims, through an action-research approach with the partner journals of the Revue 3.0 project, to document the communication practices of partner journals, with and for them, as well as those of scholarly journals throughout their long history. The goal is to combine interviews and documentary research to reflect the past and present diversity of discoverability practices among partner journals. In addition, the project seeks to experiment with new forms of journal sociability via the online Discourse forum, in light of the decline of major social networks.

3.1. Recent Activities and Achievements

In recent months, this project has been implemented by Servanne Monjour, Juliette De Maeyer, Victor Chaix, and Alexia Schneider. After several meetings, we established a series of questions for which we hope to gather answers from partner journals, partly through an online survey with informative questions and partly through more open-ended questions to be posed during a collective interview at the plenary meeting. Furthermore, we have created and begun organizing a “Journal Space” within the Revue 3.0 Discourse forum, where online discussions among journals and project members can take place on various issues, including discoverability, as well as announcements.

3.2. Upcoming Activities and Achievements for the Next Semester

↪ Continue addressing the series of questions established regarding the diversity of partner journals’ discoverability practices.

↪ Combine individual research actions, conducted in advance of the plenary meeting, with a review of the questions to be posed during the collective interviews with partner journals.

↪ Finalize the design of the Journal Space on the Discourse forum to make it as suitable as possible for the project members’ practices and expectations.

3.3. General Comments and Other Relevant Information

A final meeting is planned on July 26, before the next academic year, to take stock and clarify the next steps for this project.

4. Le Crieur: A Static Site Generator for Workflows Based on Stylo Sources

Le Crieur is a Python module (using the isolated environment manager uv) designed to generate websites for scholarly journals from corpora of documents produced in the Stylo online editor. The goal, within a Single Source Publishing approach, is to automate and facilitate the digital publication and dissemination of scholarly journals without leaving the writing/editing environment. HTML resources are exported from a corpus of articles in Stylo, with each corpus representing a journal issue. This approach enables rapid dissemination of editorial content while maintaining continuity between writing, editing, and publication, ensuring content coherence. Additionally, the use of structured and durable formats meets the epistemological requirements of scholarly journals, guaranteeing indexing, searchability, and interoperability of content. The workflow is designed to be reproducible while adapting to the journals’ graphic design.

4.1.Recent Activities and Achievements

↪ Customization of templates, static content, and metadata for the journal Photolittérature, serving as a proof of concept

↪ Construction of the Revue3.0 blog linked to the site

4.2. Upcoming Activities and Achievements for the Next Semester

↪ Automating publication (currently, corpus identifiers are added manually)

↪ Adding an article or corpus “status”: Ready to publish / Draft / In progress

↪ Designing workflows for less expert users in connection with Stylo platform development

↪ Integrating more advanced metadata

4.3. General Comments and Other Relevant Information

Le Crieur represents a solution for improving and facilitating the visibility of journals on the web.

Cross-cutting Comments from Axis Directors

The directors of Axis 3 emphasize the need to better document the editorial, scholarly, and cultural life of journals at a pivotal moment in their history marked by digital transition. Projects such as the “Cabinet of Curiosities” fit within this perspective.

New practices related to digital transition and paper remediation also intersect with entirely novel practices, particularly the use of automation tools for writing and editing, often implemented via chatbots or specialized tools, both based on large language model (LLM) algorithms. Although several workshops have been organized on this topic and more are planned, the axis directors stress the importance of offering pedagogical sessions, particularly for early-career researchers.

Journals also face challenges in introducing new editorial models incorporating alternative media beyond traditional text: videos, databases, podcasts, comics. How can digital spaces be designed to allow for the editing, preservation, and dissemination of these alternative formats? How should their scholarly legitimacy be conceived? This issue was raised by journals themselves during our last large meeting of partner journals in January 2025. Following this meeting, the creation of a dedicated working group was considered and could constitute a new area of reflection for this year.

As these new practices are integrated into individual journal protocols, the Axis 3 directors emphasize the need to consider journals as communities. They propose reflecting on the question: how do journals form editorial and scholarly communities? Future projects could be oriented in this direction in collaboration with partner journals.

The issue of journal invisibility in digital spaces also concerns projects within Revue3.0. Axis 1 directors suggest encouraging more regular use of the Revue3.0 blog by all project coordinators. They also propose organizing periodic meetings for each axis, bringing together axis directors and project coordinators, to ensure closer alignment between project development and the overall objectives of their respective axes.

Participation of journals in partnership activities has been deemed still insufficient. The plenary meeting could provide an opportunity to better understand journals’ needs and interests to integrate them more fully into Revue3.0 projects.

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