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This book makes the case for expanding the worldwide historical archive now under development through the Collaborative for Historical Information and Analysis (CHIA). The opening chapter emphasizes that the time has come for using available technology to create a coherent record of human social change in recent centuries, so as to link patterns of past change to the great policy decisions our society faces. The chapter underscores the fundamentally collaborative nature of CHIA’s expanding worldwide project, comparing it to existing projects in climate modeling and genetic databases. It describes the five major levels of the archive — tied together by the three missions for developing them — and the global analysis that will emerge from the fifth level. It introduces the succeeding chapters on the construction of the global historical archive and its intended use by researchers and the general public.
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Manning, P. (2013). Challenges of Big Data in History. In: Big Data in History. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137378972_1
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