About Kinsources.net community and tools
The aim of Kinsources research community is to provide kinship studies with a large and solid empirical base. The research perspectives seeks to understand the interaction between genealogy, social networks, individual trajectories, kinship terminology and space in the emergence of kinship and social structures. Born of a long-standing collaboration between Michael Houseman (EPHE, Paris) and Douglas White (UC at Irvine), our interest for computer analysis of kinship relations has continued to grow. The constitution of the TIP (Traitement Informatique de la Parente / Kinship and Computing) group in Paris and the development of analytical tools such as PUCK by Klaus Hamberger (EHESS, Paris ) marked a milestone in this field of study. The creation by Mike Fischer (U. Kent at Canterbury) of a prototype website for archiving Kinship data was an important step in the process that has led to the Kinsources.net platform. We hope these collaborations will continue to develop and that Kinsources.net will prove instrumental in bringing together a community of researchers involved in this type of study, whether they be historians, demographers, sociologists or anthropologists.
Kinsources.net is an open and interactive platform to archive, share, analyze and compare kinship data used in scientific research. Kinsources.net is not just another genealogy website, but a peer-reviewed repository designed for comparative and collaborative research. Kinsources.net combines the functionality of communal data repository with a toolbox providing researchers with advanced software for analyzing kinship data. Hosted by the TGIR HumaNum, the platform ensures both security and free access to the scientific data is validated by the research community. The software Puck (Program for the Use and Computation of Kinship data) is integrated in the statistical package and the search engine of the Kinsources website.
Kinsources.net was developed within a research project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), involving research institutes University of Nanterre, University of Paris VI Sorbonne, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), as well as the University of Kent (UKC), the University of California at Irvine (UCI), the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) at Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Cf. Dossier : « Zoom sur … Kinsources et Puck, des outils libres pour l'analyse des données de parenté », La Lettre de L’INSHS, n°43, septembre 2016, pp. 16-26. http://www.inshs.cnrs.fr/sites/institut_inshs/files/download-file/lettre_infoinshs43hd-min.pdf
Want to know more about open data and free tools for analyzing kinship network?
See the posters and diagram dedicated to Kinsources for synthetic descriptions:
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Diagram
Kinsources.net General Overview: Public, Private, and Scientific Board Interfaces (2016) ⊕ zoom French version (pdf) and ⊕ zoom (png) |
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Poster
Open Data and Free Tools to Archive, Share, Analyse, and Compare Kinship Data Presented at EUSN, Paris, 2016 English version (pdf) |
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Poster
Kinsources and Puck, open data and free tools for analyzing kinship network Presented at EUSN, Barcelona, 2014 English version (pdf) French version (pdf) Spanish version (pdf) |
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