Browsing by Author "Brennan, Rob"

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    • Building the Seshat Ontology for a Global History Databank 

      Brennan, Rob; Feeney, Kevin; Mendel-Gleason, Gavin; Bozic, Bojan; Turchin, Peter; Whitehouse, Harvey; Francois, Pieter; Currie, Thomas E.; Grohmann, Stephanie (Springer Nature, 2016)

    • DACURA: a new solution to data harvesting and knowledge extraction for the historical sciences 

      Peregrine, Peter N.; Brennan, Rob; Currie, Thomas; Feeney, Kevin; Francois, Pieter; Turchin, Peter; Whitehouse, Harvey (2018-07-03)
      New advances in computer science address problems historical scientists face in gathering and evaluating the now vast data sources available through the Internet. As an example we introduce Dacura, a dataset curation ...

    • A Macroscope for Global History. Seshat Global History Databank: a methodological overview 

      Francois, Pieter; Manning, J.G.; Whitehouse, Harvey; Brennan, Rob; Currie, Thomas; Feeney, Kevin; Turchin, Peter (2016-12-22)
      This article introduces the ‘Seshat: Global History’ project, the methodology it is based upon and its potential as a tool for historians and other humanists. The article describes in detail how the Seshat methodology and ...

    • Seshat: The Global History Databank 

      Turchin, Peter; Brennan, Rob; Currie, Thomas E.; Feeney, Kevin C.; Francois, Pieter; Hoyer, Daniel; Manning, Joseph G.; Marciniak, Arkadiusz; Mullins, Daniel Austin; Palmisano, Alessio; Peregrine, Peter; Turner, Edward A. L.; Whitehouse, Harvey (2015)
      The vast amount of knowledge about past human societies has not been systematically organized and, therefore, remains inaccessible for empirically testing theories about cultural evolution and historical dynamics. For ...