As part of the EquipEx+ COMMONS project (COnsortium of Mutualised Means for OpeN data & Services for SSH), OpenEdition is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to work on an ethnography of digital publishing practices using the Métopes tool.

Métopes is a national research infrastructure developed and supported by the University of Caen, the MESR and the CNRS, providing publishing professionals in higher education and research with a set of methods and tools for digitally structuring and disseminating, online or in print, editorial objects such as books, journals, corpora, etc., as the editorial work progresses. Based on the principles of Single Source Publishing and the XML-TEI Commons Publishing standard, Métopes tools enable a single editorial circuit to be set up for all forms of publication. For more information on Métopes, see: https://www.metopes.fr/

As part of an Observatory of the uses of the COMMONS shared infrastructure (which brings together OpenEdition, Huma-Num and Métopes), the post-doctoral researcher will be responsible for carrying out an ethnography of practices relating to the Métopes editorial chain: what is the profile of its users, what are their needs, how are they trained to use it, how does it work from a practical point of view, etc.?

This study, based on interviews with users, the tool's designers and the management of the research infrastructure, could be coupled with a semiotic analysis of the tool as a publishing infrastructure, particularly in the context of COMMONS and the links maintained with the other infrastructures in the consortium.
The study will be carried out in conjunction with doctoral students involved in the Observatoire des usages d'OpenEdition (see https://lab.hypotheses.org/3141 and https://lab.hypotheses.org/3299) and with researchers from the Anr PaRéDo SHS project on data practices in SHS (see https://lab.hypotheses.org/paredo-shs-2024-2027).
Visits to the University of Caen are to be expected.
The person recruited will be required to deliver an operational report to COMMONS at the end of the contract.

The OpenEdition research infrastructure (RI), which coordinates the COMMONS consortium, is deploying four scientific communication platforms specialising in the humanities and social sciences: a platform dedicated to journals (OpenEdition Journals), a platform dedicated to books (OpenEdition Books), a platform for research blogs (Hypothèses) and a calendar of academic events (Calenda). OpenEdition employs nearly sixty people working full-time in Marseille and Paris for the CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, EHESS and Avignon University.

OpenEdition Lab (https://lab.hypotheses.org/) is a department of the OpenEdition support and research unit, whose mission is to define, support and organise, within and with the OpenEdition UAR, an interdisciplinary research programme, both fundamental and applied, on the practices of production, circulation, appropriation and regulation of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences in the context of open science. OpenEdition Lab offers a host environment, infrastructure and research network structured around four axes, enabling collaborative investigations into open science practices in the humanities and social sciences to be carried out using thematic and cross-disciplinary approaches.