Social Dynamics in Urban Context
Open tools, models and data - Paris and its suburbs, 1789-1950

Welcome to the SODUCO project

SODUCO is a 4 years pluridisciplinary project funded by the French National Research Agency, it has started in march 2019 and will end in 2023. SODUCO brings together people from the geographical sciences, from urban history, specialists of network morphogenesis and computer scientists to study the evolution of Paris over time, both in terms of its morphological transformations and its social evolutions.

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Latest news

SoDUCo at the 30th International Conference on the History of Cartography 2024!

The three presentations submitted by members of the SoDUCo project to the International Conference on the History of Cartography have been accepted! See you in Lyon next July! More information on the conference Web site

SoDUCo at SemWeb.Pro 2023!

Solenn Tual will present the work carried out to create a geohistorical knowledge graph on 19th century Parisian photographers as part of SemWeb.Pro meeting dedicated to the semantic web in the professional world, 14 November 2023, in Paris (France). Click here for more information (in French)

The fourth SODUCO-BNF seminar will be held on 6 and 7 November 2023

The SODUCO project and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France are jointly organising a series of seminars on the historical sources processed by the project and on the approaches developed - in the SODUCO project, but also in other research projects - to extract useful information from these sources and analyse them.

The fourth seminar title is “Restoring commercial directories addresses and spatial evolutions in 19th century Paris - Sharing the experience and resources of the SoDUCo programme. Closing seminar of the ANR SoDUCo programme.”

Registration is free but mandatory. The program and the registration form (in French) will be soon available here

Fourth SODUCO-BNF seminar Programme (6-7 November 2023)

The SODUCO project and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France are jointly organising a series of seminars on the historical sources processed by the project and on the approaches developed - in the SODUCO project, but also in other research projects - to extract useful information from these sources and analyse them.

The fourth seminar title is “Restoring commercial directories addresses and spatial evolutions in 19th century Paris - Sharing the experience and resources of the SoDUCo programme. Closing seminar of the ANR SoDUCo programme.”

Registration is free but mandatory. See the preliminary programme (in French) and register on the registration form

The fourth SODUCO-BNF seminar will be held on 6 and 7 November 2023

The SODUCO project and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France are jointly organising a series of seminars on the historical sources processed by the project and on the approaches developed - in the SODUCO project, but also in other research projects - to extract useful information from these sources and analyse them.

The fourth seminar focuses on Sharing the experience and resources of the SoDUCo programme. Open data, free tools, collaborative science.

Registration is free but mandatory. The program and the registration form (in French) will be soon available here