The DIGIT.EN.S encyclopedia is comprised of 200 entries and an anthology of primary sources on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century sociability. The entries are divided in 5 categories: people, places, practices, objects and concepts. The entries focus mainly on British sociability but explore also the circulation and transfers of models, forms, practices and values of sociability throughout Europe and in the colonial worlds.

The grant H2020 MSCA-RISE-2018 (823862) funded 56 one-month secondments from January 2019 to December 2022. The DIGITENS consortium gathered 12 institutions (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Sorbonne Université, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Musée Cognacq-Jay, The National Archives, University of Warwick, Universität Greifswald, Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego, Università degli Studi Gabriele d'Annunzio, McGill University, Université du Québec à Montréal) and over 50 scholars, curators, archivists and digital experts. The secondments were carried out mostly at The National Archives, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Musée Cognacq-Jay, McGill University and UQAM. Using either digitized, printed or manuscript sources held in the archives of these institutions, seconded members wrote entries for the DIGIT.EN.S encyclopedia (www.digitens.org). They were asked to complete an online form detailing the collections they explored during their secondment. This dataset thus keeps track of these sources with a short description and keywords.