Mathieu JacomyToday I will be tooting about the Historical Network Research Conference #HNR2024, day 2. https://historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/lausanne/program/
@GrandjeanMartin opens the day. He has been using a network to make the program and find which papers go best together. #hnr2024
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
"My hope is that it stays open and loosely defined."
@martenduering about the field in general, and in particular the HNR community spaces like the Journal of Historical Network Research (JHNR).
https://jhnr.net/
@martenduering about the field in general, and in particular the HNR community spaces like the Journal of Historical Network Research (JHNR).
https://jhnr.net/
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."
#hnr2024
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.
John Theibault@jacomyma @lucasrappo I wonder sometimes if HNR took the data from Sabean's Neckarhausen books or Medick's Laichingen book whether they would find something genuinely new and interesting or would just confirm in still greater detail what was already there.
Lucas Rappo@jtheibault @jacomyma
Hi! That is such a good question! The results of Sabean were the hypothesis for my PhD. For this presentation not so much. But I do find your suggestion very interesting. But: where is the data Sabean used?
Hi! That is such a good question! The results of Sabean were the hypothesis for my PhD. For this presentation not so much. But I do find your suggestion very interesting. But: where is the data Sabean used?
@lucasrappo @jacomyma Indeed that is a good question too. I assume that he still has it, though in what format I do not know. It's possible that it ended up in a data repository at UCLA, but that isn't so common for historians of that generation.
@jtheibault @jacomyma Difficult to know...