Full-text data papers from JOHD and call for papers from DH venues

This dataset contains the data used in the paper entitled "Are Digital Humanities really committed to open? An exploratory study on the availability of methodological workflows and open peer review practices", accepted at the AIUCD Conference 2026. The aim of this work is to answer to two specific research questions (RQ1 and RQ2), i.e.:

How many publications which describe some data contain an explicit reference to external documentation detailing the process used to create and maintain such data, such as a DMP and/or a detailed workflow depicting the process of data creation?

How many DH venues adopts open peer reviewing practices?

We have run an exploratory study considering specific research venues. In particular:

To address RQ1, we check if data papers published in Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) include references or mentions to external material appropriately dedicated to either describing the management of the data a paper describes, such as a Data Management Plan (DMP), or detailing precisely the workflow used to produce these data, e.g. published as a particular workflow document or as a computational notebook;

To address RQ2, we identify the practice of reviewing processes established in some DH venues, including conferences and journals, tracking how many venues adopt open peer review processes instead of the classic ones that prescribe either the sole anonymity of reviewers (single-blind from now on) or the anonymity of both authors and reviewers (double-blind from now on).

The dataset contains two folders containing the data to address the aforementioned RQs. In particular:

the folder data/ includes the sources of the the data papers (in PDF and XML formats) published in JOHD in 2025, all published in open access using appropriate Creative Commons licenses (i.e. CC BY) - the correct license attribution can be retrieved from the journal website;

the folder cfp/ includes all the call for papers (in HTML, PDF and TXT formats) of the following venues:

the past five years (2022-2026) of the annual conference organised by the Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD);

the past five years (2022-2026) of the annual conference organised by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO);

the DH journals in the list available at https://dhjournals.github.io/list/, in particular those that are (a) completely devoted to publishing DH articles, (b) still active, (c) have a URL associated, and (d) specify a standard article submission procedure.

In addition, both the folders contain also the data (in JSON and CSV formats, released using the CC0 waiver to maximise their reuse) resulted from the analysis conducted by executing two distinct workflow devised for addressing the aforementioned research questions. Both the workflows have been defined using Jupyter Notebook and are available in the following document:

Peroni, S. (2026). Computational Workflows to Measure the Open Science Practices in the Digital Humanities Domain (Version v1.0.0) [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19758644

For any question or doubt, do not hesitate to contact the author at silvio {dot} peroni {at} unibo {dot} it.