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In September, the OpenEdition Scientific Board appointed its chairs: Michael Sinatra will chair the Scientific Board, while Karine Bennafla and François Bougard will be vice-chairs.The main tasks of the Scientific Board are to develop open digital publishing in the humanities and social sciences, to participate in the strategic development of the OpenEdition platforms, and to oversee the scientific steering of the organization.Michael SinatraProfessorat the Université de Montréal, a specialist in British Romanticism and founderof the Centre de recherche sur les humanités numériques in Quebec, MichaelSinatra has over twenty years of research and management experience in theworld of the digital humanities and digital publishing.Thecreator of one of the first digital open access academic journals, Romanticism on the Net, created inFebruary 1996 in Oxford while he was studying for his PhD, from 2007 to 2012 heled the pan-Canadian project Synergies, a research infrastructure for Canada’shumanities and social sciences funded through the National Platforms Program ofthe Canada Foundation for Innovation.MichaelSinatra played a major role in the institutionalization of the digitalhumanities internationally by serving, from 2009 to 2015, as the Frenchpresidency of the Canadian Society of Digital Humanities (SCHN). A member ofthe steering sommittee of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations(2011-2014) for three years, he went on to sit on the coordinating committee ofHumanistica, the French-language international association for the digitalhumanities, since its creation in 2014 until 2019.With Marcello Vitali-Rosati, in 2014 he founded the collection “Parcours numériques ” at the Presses de l’Université de Montréal, an open access hybrid collection that offers an enriched online version of its titles, and in which he published the Pratiques de l’édition numérique guide.Hecurrently leads the Research Group on Critical Editions in a Digital Context,funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture.“OpenEdition is a leading organization in the world of scholarly publishing and one with an impressive history. It is an honour to serve as chair of the Scientific Board to support future developments and play a part in the current challenges of legitimizing academic content.” Karine BennaflaKarine Bennafla - Professor of Geography at Lyon III University. After a PhD on border trade in Central Africa, Karine Bennafla worked in Lebanon, and later in Morocco as a CNRS researcher (2007-2009). A junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2011), she was a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh (Center for African Studies) for two years. Her research interests focus on development, border areas, and the so-called informal urban economy. From 2015 to 2019 she was director of the CEDEJ (USR 3123) in Cairo, Egypt, where she was head of publishing.François BougardFrançoisBougard, a former director of medieval studies at the Ecole française de Rome(1997-2004), is professor of history of the Middle Ages at Paris Ouest NanterreLa Défense University. He has been seconded to the CNRS as director of theInstitut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (UPR 841) since September 2014.Aspecialist of the High Middle Ages, he is the author of a thesis on theexercise of justice in the Kingdom of Italy between the eighth and eleventhcentury (published in 1995), and has published commented translations ofauthors of the Italian High Middle Ages (Paul Diacre, Liudprand of Cremona).His research also focuses on the history of libraries, with a particularinterest in French Cistercian circles and, more recently, the manuscriptcollection of Cardinal Richelieu.“Myinterest in OpenEdition is both personal and institutional. Open science is anew frontier for the development of our disciplines, some of which have alreadybeen crossed but others of which are still far away. It must also be reconciledwith the practices and media in use, especially in traditional researchcentres, as is the case at the IRHT. It is in order to contribute to thiscollective challenge that I wanted to be part of the Scientific Board.”Learn more about the membership of the Scientific Board 