History
Texts
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mpeeples2008/ArchNetSci
Open online companion to network science in archaeology, with code and worked examples.
Datasets
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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.
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aourednik/historical-basemaps GPL-3.0
Georeferenced outlines of world countries and cultural regions across many periods, for mapping historical data.
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dspinellis/unix-history-make
Code and data that rebuild the evolution of Unix source code as a single git repository.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir CC-BY-4.0
Community-kept tables of every published ancient metagenomic sample, with site, date and accession.
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papyri/idp.data
Texts, translations and metadata of ancient papyri in EpiDoc XML, the data behind papyri.info.
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Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria
Geospatial dataset of world polities from 3400 BCE to 2024 CE, from the Seshat Global History Databank.
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friendly/HistData
R package collecting classic datasets from the history of statistics and data visualization.
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ropensci/USAboundaries
R package of historical and present-day boundaries of US states and counties, for mapping.
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isawnyu/pleiades.datasets
Downloadable exports of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places, in several formats.
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bodleian/medieval-mss
TEI catalogue descriptions of medieval manuscripts held in Oxford libraries.
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beskvladimir-create/tsiolkovsky-papers MIT
Catalogue of all 2,019 files in Tsiolkovsky's archive at the Russian Academy of Sciences, with transcriptions.
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people3k/p3k14c
R package of the p3k14c database of archaeological radiocarbon dates from around the world.
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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.
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ISicily/ISicily CC-BY-4.0
EpiDoc TEI files for inscriptions from ancient Sicily, from the I.Sicily corpus.
Tools
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LibraryOfCongress/data-exploration CC0-1.0
Notebook tutorials showing how to fetch and analyse Library of Congress collection data through its APIs.
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PastVu/pastvu AGPL-3.0
Source code of PastVu, a community platform for locating, dating and discussing old photographs from around the world.
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owid/etl MIT
The data pipeline behind Our World in Data, which builds its public datasets on population, health, economy and more.
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LinkedPasts/linked-places-format
JSON-LD and GeoJSON format for recording place attestations, used to link historical gazetteer datasets.
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josephlewis/leastcostpath
R package for modelling likely paths of past movement across a landscape.
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wenzhenl/wikitimeline MIT
Turns Wikipedia articles into interactive timelines so lives and events can be compared side by side.
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ohmg-dev/OldInsuranceMaps GPL-3.0
Public platform for georeferencing historical fire insurance maps and viewing them over modern maps.
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mwenge/lineara.xyz
Browser tool for exploring the Linear A inscription corpus, with images, transcriptions and search.
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ropensci/c14bazAAR GPL-2.0
R package that downloads radiocarbon dates from many archaeological databases and merges them.
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joeroe/stratigraphr
R package for archaeological stratigraphy: Harris matrices and chronological sequences.
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nico579/lidar2map GPL-3.0
Builds offline relief maps from open LiDAR data in 27 countries, for spotting archaeological earthworks.
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sebastien-plutniak/archeofrag GPL-3.0
R package for analysing refitted fragments to test the spatial layers of an archaeological site.
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sebastien-plutniak/archeoviz GPL-3.0
R application for exploring and publishing the spatial data of an archaeological excavation in 3D.
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alexandrosm/Demograph CC0-1.0
Interactive remake of the 1931 Histomap: four thousand years of world history as streams of power.
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ISAAKiel/mortAAR GPL-3.0
R package for building life tables from archaeological burial data.
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periodo/periodo-client
Browser client for viewing and editing PeriodO, a gazetteer of scholarly definitions of historical periods.
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renevoorburg/omnesviae
Route planner over the Roman road network of the Tabula Peutingeriana.
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joeroe/era
R package for year-based time scales: BCE/CE, BP and other calendar eras, with conversion.
Lists
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iipc/awesome-web-archiving CC0-1.0
Curated list of tools, training and community resources for archiving and preserving the web.
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maehr/awesome-digital-history AGPL-3.0
Curated list of online primary-source archives and methods for researching history digitally.
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benmarwick/ctv-archaeology
The CRAN task view for archaeological science: R packages grouped by task.
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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.
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allmaps/iiif-map-collections
Curated list of scanned map collections that can be opened through IIIF.