Databases

Digitizing Guardianship Registers in Senegal (1895-1910): Naming as Evidence and Ethical Concern

Kelly M. Duke Bryant

ethics
archives
databases
history

children
slavery
liberation
post-emancipation
liberated minors
naming
aliases

This article describes the process of building a database of names and information about formerly enslaved children in early colonial Senegal, and it uses the database to ask both historical and ethical questions about naming practices and aliases, experiences of unfreedom, and self-fashioning among these children.

Systematic bias in humanities datasets: ancient and medieval coin finds in the FLAME project

Lee Mordechai
Alan Stahl
Mark Pyzyk
Ilia Curto Pelle

collaboration
data analytics
data visualization
databases
geospatial
history
medieval

Community-Driven Linked Data Approaches in Builders and Defenders: Nashville's Historical Black Civil War Database

Angela Sutton
Jessica Power

archives
collaboration
data analytics
data curation
databases
digitization
ethics
semantic web
interdisciplinarity
race
social justice
network
public history
social justice

race studies

This article explores the use of community engagement and the principles behind linked data to create a spatial history database that both serves a local Black community in the US South and makes accessible the sources that complicate our understanding of the Civil War.

The Ludii Games Database: A Resource for Computational and Cultural Research on Traditional Board Games

Walter Crist
Matthew Stephenson
Éric Piette
Cameron Browne

games
databases
archaeology
dh

Game Studies
Computer Science
Databases
Archaeology
History
Anthropology

The Ludii Games Database presents a view on the traditional board games from the past 5000 years and lets you play them online.

Towards a National Data Architecture for Cultural Collections: Designing the Australian Cultural Data Engine

Rachel Fensham
Tyne Daile Sumner
Nat Cutter
George Buchanan
Rui Liu
Justin Munoz
James Smithies
Ivy Zheng
David Carlin
Erik Champion
Hugh Craig
Scott East
Chris Hay
Lisa M. Given
John Macarthur
David McMeekin
Joanna Mendelssohn
Deborah van der Plaat

databases
info architecture
project report
data analytics
visual art

Cultural databases are complicated beasts: rich in their contents and yet often idiosyncratic, siloed, and precarious. This article outlines an innovative workflow and information architecture designed to harness the interoperability of digital resources/records for cultural analytics research without obliterating distinctive domain knowledges.

Compounded Mediation: A Data Archaeology of the Newspaper Navigator Dataset

Benjamin Lee

machine learning
archaeology
digital
cultural heritage
databases

In this article, I consider the Library of Congress’s Newspaper Navigator dataset, which I created as part of the Library of Congress’s Innovator-in-Residence program.

Digital Stages for Old Plays: A Review of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools