Huma-Num

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Huma-Num dot f r1
Huma-Num dot f r
In the sun, in the rain
At midnight or midday
There's everything that you could want at
Huma-Num.

A research infrastructure
With a star,2 and a perch too
(The logo of its search engine, Isidore)
And Isidore is a fish
Who finds data and harvests it
In Spanish, English,
And of course in French.3

Huma-Num dot f r
Huma-Num dot f r
In the sun, in the rain
At midnight or midday
There's everything that you could want at
Huma-Num.

To share and publish
And enrich your data
You can use the Nakala data warehouse4
Get assigned a DOI5
Access via API6
Public, private, metadata! The koala has it all.7

Huma-Num dot f r
Huma-Num dot f r
In the sun, in the rain
At midnight or midday
There's everything that you could want at
Huma-Num.

Notes

1. Huma-Num and its associated website https://huma-num.fr provides digital research infrastructure for French-speaking researchers in the social sciences and humanities. See https://documentation.huma-num.fr/humanum-en/. Back to text
2. In France very large research infrastructures, such as Huma-Num, are denoted IR* (infrastructure de recherche étoile). Back to text
3. The search engine Isidore (https://isidore.science) harvests social science and humanities data and documents in French, Spanish, and English, and enriches them with standardised metadata. These can be accessed via a keyword search or as Linked Data via a SPARQL endpoint. See https://isidore.science/about. Back to text
4. The data warehouse Nakala is another service provided by Huma-Num. See https://www.nakala.fr/about. Back to text
5. Data or documents made publicly available in Nakala are automatically assigned a Document Object Identifier (DOI). See https://documentation.huma-num.fr/nakala/#attribution-dun-doi-a-une-donnee-publique. Back to text
6. Nakala can be accessed via API if one has a HumanID account, the centralised authentication service for Huma-Num. See https://documentation.huma-num.fr/nakala/#depot-par-lapi. Back to text
7. When depositing data in Nakala, one can choose to make it public or private. Nakala also supports the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The logo of Nakala is a koala. See https://documentation.huma-num.fr/nakala/#moissonnage-des-metadonnees. Back to text