Introduction

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="color:black">Le pr&eacute;sent num&eacute;ro de la revue <i>Global 18</i> propose une s&eacute;lection de textes parmi ceux pr&eacute;sent&eacute;s durant la cinqui&egrave;me &eacute;dition de <i>Digitizing Enlightenment</i> (Montpellier, 6-8 juillet 2022). Lors de ce colloque, nous avions choisi de nous int&eacute;resser aux usages scientifiques et p&eacute;dagogiques des bases de donn&eacute;es, et plus particuli&egrave;rement &agrave; l&rsquo;interop&eacute;rabilit&eacute; des bases de donn&eacute;es et de textes (textes, m&eacute;tadonn&eacute;es, multi-mod&egrave;les) dans le contexte des &eacute;tudes portant sur le 18^e si&egrave;cle. On trouvera donc dans ce volume plusieurs pr&eacute;sentations&nbsp;g&eacute;n&eacute;rales&nbsp;de programmes de recherche en cours dans diff&eacute;rents pays (Portugal, Suisse, Allemagne, France, etc.) et des bases qu&rsquo;ils d&eacute;veloppent, des pr&eacute;sentations de projets (dont certains ont depuis commenc&eacute;), des r&eacute;flexions ou des retours d&rsquo;exp&eacute;rience sur les m&eacute;thodologies adopt&eacute;es dans la conception de ces bases, ainsi que sur les usages scientifiques et p&eacute;dagogiques des bases de donn&eacute;es correspondant &agrave; des corpus de textes du 18^e si&egrave;cle. Quatre th&egrave;mes ont &eacute;t&eacute; privil&eacute;gi&eacute;s&nbsp;: fonctionnalit&eacute;s, interrogation, mise en relation, usages p&eacute;dagogiques.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;">_______________</p> <p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">This issue of <em>Global 18</em> features a selection of texts presented at the fifth edition of <em>Digitizing Enlightenment </em>(Montpellier, July 6-8, 2022). At this conference, we chose to focus on the scientific and pedagogical uses of databases, and more specifically on the interoperability of databases and texts (texts, metadata, multi-models) in the context of 18th century studies. This volume therefore includes general presentations of research programs underway in various countries (Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, France, etc.) and the databases they are developing, project presentations (some of which have since begun), reflections or feedback on the methodologies adopted in the design of these databases, as well as on the scientific and pedagogical uses of databases corresponding to corpora of 18th-century texts. Four database themes have been identified: functionalities, querying, linking, and pedagogical uses.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Linda GIL, Glenn ROE, Franck SALA&Uuml;N</span></span></span></p>