Victor GAY is currently an assistant professor and research fellow at Toulouse 1 Capitole University and defended his PhD thesis in economics at the University of Chicago in 2018. His project entitled “TRF-GIS: Un Système d’Information Géographique de la France de la Troisième République (1870-1940)” (TRF-GIS: A geographic information system for France under the Third Republic) traces the annual evolution of maps and statistics within the administrative structures of this period. The data resulting from his work have been published and have been the subject of data papers. Victor GAY is also the Scientific Advisor to the University Data Platform of Toulouse (PUD-T) of the PROGEDO data infrastructure.