On 25 September 2025, the Centre for Socio-Political Data (CSDP) hosted a discussion titled Café de la donnée on the topic of AI and social science metadata. Short presentations were delivered by researchers from several institutions – including Inserm, INSEE, and poltextLAB. Representing poltextLAB, Miklós Sebők demonstrated how artificial intelligence can support the better organisation and easier accessibility of research data. The event was interactive: participants not only listened to presentations but also engaged in a joint discussion.
The following day, 26 September 2025, the first meeting of the FAIRwDDI scientific and technical board took place at Sciences Po in Paris. Participants discussed how to align the description of research data (also known as metadata) with the international FAIR principles. These principles ensure that data can be easily found, accessed, linked, and reused. The meeting aimed to define common directions for the future management of social science data.
Both events highlighted that artificial intelligence and well-structured metadata play a key role in making social science research more efficient, transparent, and accessible in the future.
