Custom-made versions of that network, more friendly.

🌈 Note: the rainbow colors arise from my camera interacting weirdly with the projection! Be reassured that Martin's slides are very monochromatically serious.

@martenduering narrates how he came to believe that would be possible to work with networks in history.

A key paper for him was this one by Claire Lemercier:

Formal network methods in history: why and how?
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00521527v2/document

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HNR personas according to @martenduering :
* The historian
* The historical sociologist
* The computer scientist
* The network scientist
* The multi-talents

"You have guessed that we need all of them."
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A key insight from Marten: a very important part of the HNR community consists of historians, and more precisely people who do not define themselves as *digital* humanists or *digital* historians but just historians, and who need networks to get the job done.

The digital/computational is not necessarily a career path, it sometimes comes to you whether you want it or not, and it does not define you even if you embrace it for a time.

@lucasrappo presents his work about the land market in Lausanne in the 19th century.

Source: two cadastral maps, from 1931 and 1888, that he datafied.

By comparing them, he can identify where the city expanded.

From there, he could go back to the register of the land plots, and obtain a network of who sold which land to whom in the areas where the city expanded.

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