The symposium Linguistic description: management of linguistic data aimed to discuss issues regarding the management of linguistic data in its many formats: oral or written, contemporaneous or historical. Such symposium had its central motivation in the latent demands, especially those imposed by the Open Science movement. The participants’ plenaries centred on four main questions: i) How to fulfil the principles of open science concerning the storage, reuse and authorship of linguistic data sets? ii) How to deal with the tension between transparency and confidentiality of language data? iii) Which formats and tools are best suited to make linguistic data sets viable? iv) Which would be best systems and interfaces for storing and accessing ...