News and Events

Announcements (see below)

  • World Historical Dataverse Monthly Meetings, 2012-2013

World Historical Dataverse Monthly Meetings, 2012-2013

Wednesday, October 10, 2012. 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., 502 Information Science
"Big Data in History: A World-Historical Archive"(download PDF)
Patrick Manning (History)

Wednesday, December 5, 2012. 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., 502 Information Science
"Social Science Theory and the CHIA Archive"
Patrick Manning (History) and Sanjana Ravi (Public Health)
"Cross-Disciplinary Theory in Construction of a World-Historical Archive"(download PDF)

Thursday, January 10, 2013. 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., 4130 Posvar Hall
"The Black Death: Panzootic and Pandemic"
Bruce C. Campbell (Queen"s University, Belfast)
This session is joint with the World history Seminar

Wednesday, February 13, 2013. 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., 502 Information Science
"Col*Fusion: Crowd-sourcing for remote input and documentation of historical data"
Vladimir Zadorozhny (Information Science)

Wednesday, March 6, 2013. 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., 502 Information Science
"Tycho, Climate, and Population: collaborative research across disciplinary lines"
Wilbert van Panhuis (Public Health) and Daniel Bain (Geology & Planetary Science)

Wednesday, April 10, 2013. 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., 502 Information Science
"Adventures with Data in Journals: Journal of World-Systems Research and Journal of World-Historical Information"
Jackie Smith (Sociology) and Vladimir Zadorozhny (Information Science)