# Preparation to add Seshat to Research Software Directory

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### What is the Research Software Directory?
The Research Software Directory (RSD) is a content management system created by the Netherlands eScience Center. It is designed to promote the visibility, impact, and reuse of research software. The RSD serves as a hub where researchers can showcase their software, facilitating collaboration and recognition within the academic community.

The RSD aims to:

- **Show the impact of research software**: By relating software to other research outputs, events, news items, etc.
- **Encourage proper citation**: Providing citation information to ensure researchers and Research Software Engineers (RSEs) get credit for their work.
- **Make it easy to find and reuse research software**: All relevant information is collected on a single page, making it easier for users to discover and reuse software.
- **Share metadata about research software**: Collecting and sharing data openly with other open science platforms.

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### Why do we want to submit Seshat there?

Submitting Seshat: Global History Databank to the Research Software Directory will bring several key benefits. Overall, adding Seshat to the RSD will help amplify its reach and influence, promoting continued innovation and research excellence. More detail:

- **Increased Visibility**: The RSD will help showcase Seshat to a wider audience, highlighting its significance and potential impact on historical and cultural research.
- **Enhanced Impact**: By linking Seshat to related research outputs and activities, the RSD will demonstrate how Seshat contributes to the broader research landscape.
- **Proper Citation and Credit**: Ensuring that the Seshat team receives appropriate recognition for their work through proper citation practices.
- **Promotion of Reuse**: Facilitating the discovery and reuse of Seshat's data and methodologies by other researchers and projects, fostering new collaborations and advancements.
- **Support for Collaborations**: Providing a platform where potential collaborators can learn about Seshat, understand its capabilities, and connect with the team for future projects.
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## Description

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The Seshat project, formally known as Seshat: Global History Databank, is an ambitious initiative aimed at systematically collecting and analyzing historical data about the social and political organization of human societies over the last 10,000 years. Launched in 2011, the project compiles extensive data from various societies, encompassing aspects such as social complexity, warfare, agriculture, and religion. This data is meticulously coded and curated by experts and made available for open access. The primary goal of Seshat is to provide a comprehensive, quantitative resource that enables researchers to test hypotheses about the evolution of human societies. By aggregating scattered historical knowledge into a single, searchable database, Seshat facilitates large-scale comparative studies, helping to answer broad questions about cultural and social evolution, such as the roots of inequality and the factors that influence governance quality.

## Links and metadata

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## Contributors

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**Contact person**: Ed? Majid?

**Contributors**:

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## Organisations

- [The Alan Turing Institute](https://www.turing.ac.uk/)
- [Complexity Science Hub](https://csh.ac.at)
- ... any other contributing organisations?

## Mentions

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**Publications**:
- "Seshat: The Global History Databank", Cliodynamics 6(1), https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qx38718
- "A Macroscope for Global History: Seshat Global History Databank, a methodological overview", DHQ 10(4), https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/4/000272/000272.html
- "Seshat: Global History Databank Publishes First Set of Historical Data", Cliodynamics 8(1)
- "Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization", PNAS (2017), Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization, doi:10.1073/pnas.1708800115
- "An Introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank", Journal of Cognitive Historiography 5(1–2), doi:10.1558/jch.39395
- "An Integrative Approach to Estimating Productivity in Past Societies using Seshat: Global History Databank", The Holocene 31(6), doi:10.1177/0959683621994644
- "The Equinox2020 Seshat Data Release", Cliodynamics 11(1)
- "A New Era in the Study of Global History is Born but It Needs to be Nurtured", Journal of Cognitive Historiography 5(1–2), doi:10.1558/jch.39422
- "Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution", PLoS ONE 16(10), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0258161
- "Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses", Science Advances 8(25), doi:10.1126/sciadv.abn3517

**About Seshat:**
- "Dataset Review—Seshat: Global History Databank", Journal of World-Systems Research 24(1), doi:10.5195/JWSR.2018.786

**Videos**:
- [there are some videos on Vimeo I think]
- [What is Seshat?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLD2kBLII0Y)
- [Farming made us grow: an interview with Dr. Thomas Currie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HaipI4HqaA)
- [Rituals have glued societies together for millenia: an interview with Dr. Harvey Whithouse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk6pm51ToU0)
- [Cliodynamics explains history scientifically: an interview with Peter Turchin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oturMcT45Ww)
- [Seshat bridges the gap between history and prehistory: an interview with Peter Peregrine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMSCLNwkwMc)
- [10,000 years of war increased the size of human groups: an interview with Peter Turchin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDigwxbSmBU)
- [Preview: The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, Creation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCGI9lCV1H4)
- [Preview: Isis and the Missing Treasures](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ7btzCvkmY)
- [Dan Hoyer: Exploring the Dynamics of Societies in Crisis Cliodynamics and Quantitative History](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSaQbS4fy58)
- [Cultural History Database Initiative](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1l5Mr2xEPg)
- [Quantifying the Evolution of Social Complexity with Seshat: Global History Databank](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLLS87yzP8I)
- [Big data in archaeology: archaeological seshat and beyond](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HehRRF0JcU)
- [Collecting and Curating High Quality Datasets with Dacura - Seshat case study](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr3RSEE8juA)
- [Modeling Societal Dynamics with Historical Data](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvNWdKOmOsI)
- [Pieter Francois at Big Data & HPS 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ppx6UIh9o)
- [D5.9 - ALIGNED - Seshat use case](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQMQfAKde7Q)
- [Deliverable 5.5 - Integrated ALIGNED Tools/Trial Platforms - Seshat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vokOC7-xbk0)
- [Webinar - TerminusDB, DBpedia & Seshat Hackathon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFhwORjn-Nc)
- [World History by the Numbers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0RhN-WKzk)
- [Jacob Freeman PEOPLE 3000 Teleconference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o5yOjXNfN4)
- [Demonstration of Dacura's tools for editing and creating data](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgAkQvjFY1Q)
- [Stuffing all Human History in One Knowledge Graph](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlMEhj6_Mnc)
- [Demonstration of Dacura's Schema Editor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRD-rzaD900)
- [The War Paradox: How Warfare Breeds Cooperation, and Cooperation Reduces Warfare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqN6zHgQGqA)

## Related Software & Projects

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- ...other Data/Science projects linked together perhaps?

## Maintainers

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## Package Managers

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