scholarly journals Networked Pantheon: A Relational Database of Globally Famous People

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Beytía ◽  
Janosch Schobin
Keyword(s):  
Relational Database ◽  
Famous People

scholarly journals Networked Pantheon: a Relational Database of Globally Famous People

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-65
Author(s):  
Pablo Beytía ◽  
Janosch Schobin
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Relational Database ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Digital Method ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Human History ◽  
Famous People ◽  
Occupational Information ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This article presents the Networked Pantheon, a relational database of biographies of globally famous people spanning the last 5,500 years of human history. This information source is intended to complement Pantheon 1.0 (Yu et al., 2016), a dataset that includes temporal, spatial, gender, and occupational information on 11,341 world-renowned people – defined as those who have biographies available in more than 25 languages on Wikipedia. The Networked Pantheon adds information about the biographical links between these historical figures, compiled from hyperlinks between the biographies in the English Wikipedia. This digital method enables techniques from network analysis to be used in studying the biographical relationships between globally famous people. Thus, distinct measures of historical centrality can be calculated for individuals, cities, countries, genders, and occupations. The Networked Pantheon includes indicators of figure centrality in the network of biographical references and provides an approximation of the information flows between various territories, genders, and occupations of famous people over time.

scholarly journals Networked Pantheon: a Relational Database of Globally Famous People

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Beytía ◽  
Janosch Schobin
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Relational Database ◽  
Digital Method ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Human History ◽  
Famous People ◽  
Occupational Information ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Over Time

This article presents Networked Pantheon, a relational database of biographies of globally famous people spanning the last 5,500 years of human history. This source of information is intended to complement Pantheon 1.0 (Yu et. al. 2016), a biographical dataset that includes temporal, spatial, gender, and occupational information on 11,341 world-renowned people –defined as those who have their biographies in 25 or more Wikipedia language-versions–. Networked Pantheon adds information about the biographical links between these historical figures, which was compiled from the hyperlinks between the biographies in English Wikipedia. This digital method allows technics from network analysis to be used to study the relationships between globally famous people, and thus to calculate different measures of historical centrality for individuals, cities, countries, genders, and occupations. Networked Pantheon complements the historical popularity indicators of Pantheon 1.0 with measurements of the centrality of the figures in the network of biographical references, allowing for an approximation to the information flows between different territories, genders, and occupations of famous people over time.

Clothing in Context — Nineteenth-Century Dress and Textiles in the Thomas Hardy Archive

Costume ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Famous People ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
Textiles And Clothing ◽  
Insight Into

This article will consider how dress, textiles, manuscripts and images in the Thomas Hardy Archive illuminate his writing and reveal the accuracy of his descriptions of clothing in novels including Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Rural clothing, fashionable styles, drawings and illustrations will shed new light on his writing through providing an insight into the people's dress he described so eloquently in his writing. The textiles and clothing in the Archive are also significant as nineteenth-century working-class dress is relatively rare. Everyday rural clothing does not tend to survive, so a collection belonging to Hardy's family of country stonemasons provides new opportunities for research in this area. Even more unusual is clothing reliably provenanced to famous people or writers, and such garments that do exist tend to be from the middle or upper classes. This article will show how the combination of surviving dress, biographical context and literary framework enriches understanding of Hardy's words and informs research into nineteenth-century rural dress.

Source-Oriented Data Processing. The triumph of the micro over the macro?

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Burt ◽  
Tom Beaumont James
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Relational Database ◽  
Database System ◽  
Relational Database System ◽  
Historical Databases ◽  
Oriented Approach

This article discusses the different approaches to the treatment of historical databases: the relational database system and κλειω, a source-oriented approach.

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