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- Title
Redefining African Regions for Linking Open-Source Data.
- Authors
Lovejoy, Henry B.; Lovejoy, Paul E.; Hawthorne, Walter; Alpers, Edward A.; Candido, Mariana; Hopper, Matthew S.
- Abstract
In recent years, an increasing number of online archival databases of primary sources related to the history of the African diaspora and slavery have become freely and readily accessible for scholarly and public consumption. This proliferation of digital projects and databases presents a number of challenges related to aggregating data geographically according to the movement of people in and out of Africa across time and space. As a requirement to linking data of open-source digital projects, it has become necessary to delimit the entire continent of precolonial Africa during the era of the slave trade into broad regions and sub-regions that can allow the grouping of data effectively and meaningfully.
- Subjects
AFRICAN diaspora; HISTORY of slavery; ONLINE databases; AFRICAN history; AFRICAN civilization
- Publication
History in Africa: A Journal of Method, 2019, Vol 46, p5
- ISSN
0361-5413
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/hia.2019.8