Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Dataset

Version ID: SDFB-20190808

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a digital reconstruction of the early modern social network that scholars and students from all over the world can collaboratively expand, revise, curate, and critique. Unlike published prose, Six Degrees is extensible, collaborative, and interoperable: extensible in that people and associations can always be added, modified, developed, or, removed; collaborative in that it synthesizes the work of many scholars; interoperable in that new work on the network is put into immediate relation to previously studied relationships.

General note

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Publications

For technical details about named-entity recognition and statistical inference from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, see Warren, Christopher, Daniel Shore, Jessica Otis, Lawrence Wang, Mike Finegold, and Cosma Shalizi, "Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks", Digital Humanities Quarterly 10.3, URL: http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/3/000244/000244.html.

Documentation note

The Six Degrees of Francis Bacon dataset consists of five tables, included here as CSV files. The contents of these files are as follows: SDFB_people contains a record for every historical person cataloged in Six Degrees, including a unique 8-digit ID number for each individual and, where available, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID numbers for the same. SDFB_relationships contains a record for every social relation in Six Degrees. The ID numbers in person1_index and person2_index refer back to the unique IDs in the SDFB_people table. Each relationship also has its own unique 9-digit ID. SDFB_relationship_types contains information on the type and category assigned to particular relationships. Since a relationship can have more than one type, the same relationship (referred to in this table by its unique ID from the SDFB_relationships table) can appear in multiple records. SDFB_groups contains a record for each group cataloged in Six Degrees. Every group has a unique ID. SDFB_group_assignments contains a record for every group membership in Six Degrees. Each row consists of a person ID from SDFB_people and a group ID from SDFB_groups to signify that a person was a member of that group.

Alternate titles: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, 6 Degrees of Francis Bacon, Six Degrees, 6Degrees, 6Bacon, SDFB

Early modern, 1500-1700 Social networks Social sciences -- Network analysis Prosopography Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century

author: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Team
director: Warren, Christopher N.
co-principal investigator: Otis, Jessica
co-principal investigator: Shore, Daniel
co-principal investigator: Weingart, Scott B.
postdoctoral research fellow: Ladd, John
network inference programmer: Finegold, Michael
network inference programmer: Shalizi, Cosma
network inference programmer: Wang, Lawrence
associated with: Carnegie-Mellon University
associated with: Georgetown University

Warren, Christopher et al. Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Dataset. Folger Shakespeare Library version. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University [producer]. Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library [distributor], accessDate. MirandaURL.

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