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Data Repository for Ardhi Initiative

About This Data Repository

How to Use This Repository: The data_ardhi repo is intended for use with the CDRH API and the Ardhi Initiative application.

Data Repo: https://github.com/CDRH/data_ardhi

Source Files: TEI XML, CSV

/source/authority/locations.csv comes from https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pkpeWm2YS47wASYQu72isKFAZHi5G_869I7ryvRbZs4/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=101461457265449463283

Script Languages: HTML, Ruby, JavaScript

Encoding Schema: Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines

About Ardhi Initiative

Because land grabs and resource-based conflicts are common and recurrent, land inequality crosses multiple knowledge areas: human geography, agriculture, political economy, sociology, and anthropology. The Ardhi Initiative will use Digital Humanities (DH) methodologies to identify connections and patterns that emerge across the African continent over a 100-year period. The long-term goal of this research is to ascertain varied continent-wide approaches that sustainably resolve land inequality. In the short term, the purview of this project is to investigate the 1850-1960 history of African land acquisitions, increasing the chances of re-discovering home-grown solutions. The following are objectives of the Ardhi Initiative:

  • digitize and encode (XML) 40 sovereignty treaties between European nations and African political entities
  • curate encoded documents online for use by other scholars
  • perform Natural Language Processing on encoded data
  • determine patterns of rhetoric regarding land use
  • produce data visualizations and publicly disseminate my research findings

Project Site: https://ardhi.unl.edu/

Rails Repo: https://github.com/CDRH/ardhi

Credits: https://ardhi.unl.edu/about

Work to Be Done: https://github.com/CDRH/ardhi/issues

Technical Information

See the Datura documentation for general updating and posting instructions.

About the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities

The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) is a joint initiative of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries and the College of Arts & Sciences. The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities is a community of researchers collaborating to build digital content and systems in order to generate and express knowledge of the humanities. We mentor emerging voices and advance digital futures for all.

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities GitHub: https://github.com/CDRH

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Website: https://cdrh.unl.edu/