The World History Center has a deep interest in quantitative methods for world history. We sponsored the Collaborative for Historical Information and Analysis (CHIA) from 2011 to 2021. Since 2017, we have hosted the World Historical Gazetteer and the Digital Atlas Design Internship.
In Fall 2021, the WHC hosted a series of meetings with experts in World Historical Information. Please find a summary of those conversations here. Please contact whc@pitt.edu with suggestions about publications and initiatives in this area.
Below is a list of World Historical Information research initiatives, tools, journals, and projects mentioned during the fall 2021 meetings.
Organizations and Collaborative Infrastructure
- Centre for Research on Pandemics and Society (PANSOC)
- Collaborative for Historical Information and Analysis (CHIA)
- Hardvard Dataverse
- Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
- International Institute of Social History (IISH)
- Institute for Research on World-Systems (IROWS)
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
- World-Historical Dataverse
Ongoing Projects
- China Biographical Database Project (Harvard University)
- China Historical GIS (Harvard University, Fudan University)
- Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans 1750-1850
- Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database
- Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations (IISH)
- Living with Machines (The Alan Turing Institute, the British Library, and the Universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, Exeter, and London)
- MARKUS (Digital Humanities Cluster at NTU)
- Seshat: Global Historical Databank (Seshat Databank)
- SlaveVoyages (Rice University)
- World Historical Gazetteer (University of Pittsburgh)
Journals