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Redefining African Regions for Linking Open-Source Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2019

Henry B. Lovejoy ,
Paul E. Lovejoy ,
Walter Hawthorne ,
Edward A. Alpers ,
Mariana Candido  and
Matthew S. Hopper
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Abstract:

In recent years, an increasing number of online archival databases of primary sources related to the history of the African diaspora and slavery have become freely and readily accessible for scholarly and public consumption. This proliferation of digital projects and databases presents a number of challenges related to aggregating data geographically according to the movement of people in and out of Africa across time and space. As a requirement to linking data of open-source digital projects, it has become necessary to delimit the entire continent of precolonial Africa during the era of the slave trade into broad regions and sub-regions that can allow the grouping of data effectively and meaningfully.

Résumé:

Au cours de ces dernières années, un nombre croissant de bases de données d’archives en ligne contenant des sources liées à l’histoire de la diaspora africaine et de l’esclavage est devenu librement et facilement accessible pour les universitaires et le grand public. Cette prolifération de projets et de bases de données numériques pose un certain nombre de problèmes liés à l’agrégation géographique de données traitant de la circulation des personnes en Afrique et en dehors du continent à travers le temps et l’espace. Pour relier les données de ces projets numériques au code source ouvert, il est devenu nécessaire de diviser tout le continent africain à l’époque de la traite des esclaves en de vastes régions et sous-régions permettant le regroupement des données de manière efficace et significative.

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Re-Mapping Africa
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History in Africa , Volume 46 , June 2019 , pp. 5 - 36
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2019 

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