Journal of World-Historical Information (ISSN: 2169-0812)

Description

The Journal of World-Historical Information (JWHI, http://jwhi.pitt.edu) is a peer-reviewed, semi-annual, electronic journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary project of creating and maintaining a comprehensive world- historical data resource. The journal operates under the guidance of the Collaborative for Historical Information and Analysis (CHIA, http://chia.pitt.edu), the collaborative network which is creating the data resource. The data resource addresses several centuries in time with data aggregated up to the global level. The journal focuses on the particular problems of historical data?their heterogeneity, the high cost of collecting, digitizing, and documenting such data and, on the other hand, the high value of historical data for temporal analysis of the past and projection into the future. The Journal publishes five principal types of articles: editorial essays, articles on published or immediately forthcoming datasets, methodological essays, analytical articles articles, and reviews of published datasets.
While other journal address separately the issues of information science, techniques of geographic and temporal analysis, and methods in historical studies, JWHI is distinct in focusing attention on the interplay of these aspects of creating, curating, and analyzing world- historical data. JWHI gives particular attention not only to the collection and housing of existing data but to the transformation of data to generate comprehensive and comparable data for the world and its subunits over the past several centuries.
E-ISSN: 2169-0812
Editor: Patrick Manning
Email: jwhi-AT-mail.pitt.edu