Cold Library

History

Texts

  1. mpeeples2008/ArchNetSci

    Open online companion to network science in archaeology, with code and worked examples.

Datasets

  1. unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

    Every member of the US Congress since 1789, plus committees, presidents and vice presidents, in YAML, JSON and CSV.

  2. aourednik/historical-basemaps GPL-3.0

    Georeferenced outlines of world countries and cultural regions across many periods, for mapping historical data.

  3. dspinellis/unix-history-make

    Code and data that rebuild the evolution of Unix source code as a single git repository.

  4. NYPL-publicdomain/data-and-utilities CC0-1.0

    Item and collection metadata for the public-domain materials the New York Public Library released in January 2016.

  5. yescallop/areacodes CC0-1.0

    Year-by-year county-level and higher administrative division codes of the People's Republic of China, with old-to-new code mappings.

  6. ajstarks/dubois-data-portraits

    Recreations of W.E.B. Du Bois's data portraits for the Paris Exposition, with their data and the original plates.

  7. SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir CC-BY-4.0

    Community-kept tables of every published ancient metagenomic sample, with site, date and accession.

  8. papyri/idp.data

    Texts, translations and metadata of ancient papyri in EpiDoc XML, the data behind papyri.info.

  9. Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria

    Geospatial dataset of world polities from 3400 BCE to 2024 CE, from the Seshat Global History Databank.

  10. friendly/HistData

    R package collecting classic datasets from the history of statistics and data visualization.

  11. ropensci/USAboundaries

    R package of historical and present-day boundaries of US states and counties, for mapping.

  12. isawnyu/pleiades.datasets

    Downloadable exports of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places, in several formats.

  13. bodleian/medieval-mss

    TEI catalogue descriptions of medieval manuscripts held in Oxford libraries.

  14. beskvladimir-create/tsiolkovsky-papers MIT

    Catalogue of all 2,019 files in Tsiolkovsky's archive at the Russian Academy of Sciences, with transcriptions.

  15. people3k/p3k14c

    R package of the p3k14c database of archaeological radiocarbon dates from around the world.

  16. grandjeanmartin/intellectual-cooperation CC-BY-SA-4.0

    Network data from the League of Nations archives on its intellectual cooperation committee, from a digital history study.

  17. ISicily/ISicily CC-BY-4.0

    EpiDoc TEI files for inscriptions from ancient Sicily, from the I.Sicily corpus.

Tools

  1. LibraryOfCongress/data-exploration CC0-1.0

    Notebook tutorials showing how to fetch and analyse Library of Congress collection data through its APIs.

  2. PastVu/pastvu AGPL-3.0

    Source code of PastVu, a community platform for locating, dating and discussing old photographs from around the world.

  3. owid/etl MIT

    The data pipeline behind Our World in Data, which builds its public datasets on population, health, economy and more.

  4. LinkedPasts/linked-places-format

    JSON-LD and GeoJSON format for recording place attestations, used to link historical gazetteer datasets.

  5. josephlewis/leastcostpath

    R package for modelling likely paths of past movement across a landscape.

  6. wenzhenl/wikitimeline MIT

    Turns Wikipedia articles into interactive timelines so lives and events can be compared side by side.

  7. ohmg-dev/OldInsuranceMaps GPL-3.0

    Public platform for georeferencing historical fire insurance maps and viewing them over modern maps.

  8. mwenge/lineara.xyz

    Browser tool for exploring the Linear A inscription corpus, with images, transcriptions and search.

  9. ropensci/c14bazAAR GPL-2.0

    R package that downloads radiocarbon dates from many archaeological databases and merges them.

  10. joeroe/stratigraphr

    R package for archaeological stratigraphy: Harris matrices and chronological sequences.

  11. nico579/lidar2map GPL-3.0

    Builds offline relief maps from open LiDAR data in 27 countries, for spotting archaeological earthworks.

  12. sebastien-plutniak/archeofrag GPL-3.0

    R package for analysing refitted fragments to test the spatial layers of an archaeological site.

  13. sebastien-plutniak/archeoviz GPL-3.0

    R application for exploring and publishing the spatial data of an archaeological excavation in 3D.

  14. alexandrosm/Demograph CC0-1.0

    Interactive remake of the 1931 Histomap: four thousand years of world history as streams of power.

  15. ISAAKiel/mortAAR GPL-3.0

    R package for building life tables from archaeological burial data.

  16. periodo/periodo-client

    Browser client for viewing and editing PeriodO, a gazetteer of scholarly definitions of historical periods.

  17. renevoorburg/omnesviae

    Route planner over the Roman road network of the Tabula Peutingeriana.

  18. joeroe/era

    R package for year-based time scales: BCE/CE, BP and other calendar eras, with conversion.

Lists

  1. iipc/awesome-web-archiving CC0-1.0

    Curated list of tools, training and community resources for archiving and preserving the web.

  2. maehr/awesome-digital-history AGPL-3.0

    Curated list of online primary-source archives and methods for researching history digitally.

  3. benmarwick/ctv-archaeology

    The CRAN task view for archaeological science: R packages grouped by task.

  4. stark1tty/awesome-historical-maps CC-BY-SA-4.0

    Curated list of collections, search engines, tools and guides for finding and working with historical maps.

  5. allmaps/iiif-map-collections

    Curated list of scanned map collections that can be opened through IIIF.

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