Resources
Scientific genealogical datasets
HRAF Yale
The Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) is an internationally recognized organization in the field of cultural anthropology. HRAF's mission is to encourage and facilitate the cross-cultural study of human culture, society, and behavior in the past and present. Founded in 1949 at Yale University, HRAF is a financially autonomous research agency of Yale.
http://www.yale.edu/hraf/
The Linkages
The Linkages Projects is an effort to assemble a large database of kinship datasets and genealogies, along with rich ethnographic data, from around the world, as recorded by anthropologists, or in many cases, historians, demographers, sociologists, or political scientists. These datasets fit particulary with an analysis with P-Graph. The Linkages Projects can be considered as a Kinsources' ancestor.
http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/linkages/linkages.html
ODSAS
ODSAS, the Online Digitial Sources and Annotation System for the social sciences, is a multipurpose server based IT platform and an archive of documents of all types (images, movies, sounds, text, PDF etc.) organized in dynamic collections and sets. It is a multi-user work environment that allows researchers to manipulate, transform, edit, annotate, describe, transcribe, extract, search, recombine and link documents in an individual or collaborative way. It translates researchers’ document and work on their documents into interoperable formats, such as Dublin Core and RDF, and provides a OAI-PMH harvesting interface. It allows for fine graded management of particular rights on documents, providing a secure but scientifically productive means to exchange information while remaining within national and international laws of copyrights, cultural rights and intellectual property rights.
http://www.odsas.net/
Methodological genealogical tools
KASS Tools
The Kinship and Social Security is an interdisciplinary project with an anthropological agenda funded by the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme. It provided in 2005, the KNQ Software version 1.0 in 7 languages.
The project: http://web.eth.mpg.de/kass/
The tools: https://datorium.gesis.org/xmlui/handle/10.7802/83
Kinship terminology databases
There are actually four projects involving kinship terminology databases:
All terminologies actually coded are readable by Puck (download on www.kintip.net), which allows the analysis of kin term maps with network-analytical methods and the production of kin term maps in Pajek format.
The Austkin project
The Austkin project (, contact laurent.dousset@pacific-credo.fr): highly accomplished, contains 774 Australian kinship terminologies or extracts thereof. Terminologies are coded in "etic" format ("MB" etc.), readable by Puck.
http://www.austkin.net/
The Kinship studies project
The Kinship studies project (contact dziebelg()gmail.com): an international sample, organized in spreadsheets with raw lexico-semantic data, including sources. This is basically an inventory; the kinship terminologies have not yet been coded separately
http://kinshipstudies.org/kinship-studies/database/
The KAES project
The KAES project (contact dread()anthro.ucla.edu and m.d.fischer()kent.ac.uk): some example files joined to the KAES program. Terminologies are coded in "emic" format (both reference and generator terms are vernacular) as xml files, readable by Puck.
http://kaes.anthrosciences.net/Research/KAM
Kinsources project
The Kinsources project (contact klaus.hamberger()ehess.fr): international sample of 142 terminologies. Terminologies are coded in "mixed" format (emic reference term + universal generators), readable by Puck. Terminologies can be uploaded on Kinsources but have not yet been published due to open questions on completeness and evaluation standards.