Construction KIT: a review journal for research tools and data services in the humanities (CKIT) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes academic reviews of tools and data services that are relevant for research in the humanities.

CKIT understands computational work as an essential infrastructural and intellectual part of humanities research within and outside of the digital humanities field. It strives to extend the tradition of reviews in the humanities to software, and to establish critical engagement with tools and data services as part of scholarly work in the humanities.

The editors of CKIT invite authors to submit a review of a research tool or data service in the Humanities. Reviews should have a length of 1500 to 4000 words and can be written in English or German. Each review should address the underlying concept of the research tool or data service, the domain specific research questions it addresses, and the engineering practices it implements.

The main objective of the journal is to value the development of research tools and data services as academic work. This entails that reviews should enable researchers to identify suitable software for their research, and developers to find research tools and data services to build upon in their practice. Each submitted review will be peer-reviewed to ensure a high standard of quality and to support the authors in the development of their review. Reviews will be published as soon as the evaluation process has been completed.

Please find further information under How to Submit or get in touch with the editors at aklammt@dfk-paris.org.