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Six Degrees of Francis Bacon (SDFB) is a digital reconstruction of the early modern social network (EMSN) that scholars and students from all over the world will be able to collaboratively expand, revise, curate, and critique. Historians and literary critics have long studied the way that early modern people associated with each other and participated in various kinds of formal and informal groups. Yet their scholarship, published in countless books and articles, is scattered and unsynthesized. By data-mining existing scholarship that describes relationships between early modern persons, documents, and institutions, we have created a unified, systematized representation of the way people in early modern England were connected.
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On November 17th, Six Degrees held a half-day, multi-site...
27 November 2017
On November 17th, Six Degrees held a half-day, multi-site participatory event called Re-Designing Bacon, dedicated to exploring and testing a major re-design of the Six Degrees of Francis...
CFParticipation: Re-Designing Bacon, Friday, November 17th
24 October 2017
The Six Degrees of Francis Bacon project, in association with Carnegie Mellon University and the Folger Shakespeare Library, invites early modernists, digital humanists, designers,...
Six Degrees of Pennsylvania: William Penn and Quaker Brokerage
30 August 2017
By John Ladd This week our tutorial, Exploring and Analyzing Network Data with Python, was published on Programming Historian. If you’re thinking about getting started with networks...
Introducing: Six Degress on Wikidata
24 May 2017
This is a guest post by Andrew Gray An introduction to Wikidata Wikidata is a linked-data project run by the Wikimedia Foundation, better known for Wikipedia—which no doubt...