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Historica presents an interactive world map showcasing political borders' evolution throughout distinct historical periods. The map features a dynamic time display, enabling users to delve into the fluidity of borders and the corresponding shifts in state names.
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What is Historica?
Historica is a project that creates a digital model of human history, which is continuously expanded and refined with the aid of artificial intelligence.
Historica integrates various types of data into a unified ontology, thus revealing humanity's past in its vast temporal and geographical scales, unfathomable complexity, and infinite diversity.
In its outward manifestation to the user, Historica is a dynamic, interactive map that visualizes the global development of civilization from pre-state epochs to the present moment.
Historica is a non-commercial project, evolving in three directions: academic, cultural, and recreational. In an academic context, Historica is a powerful tool for research and education, designed for the broadest use - from school curricula to scientific projects. In a cultural context, Historica is a platform for promoting cultural objects and events by local communities, revealing them to the world in precise detail, from previously inaccessible perspectives, in new contexts. In a recreational context, Historica is a space for games and simulations dedicated to historical events, using an unprecedented wealth of factual material.
Historica's Mission
Historica's mission is to create and continuously replenish an objective, interdisciplinary, decentralized, and AI-based information model of human history, serving science, education, culture, and entertainment.
Principles of Historica
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Historica follows the principles of interdisciplinarity, decentralization, and reliance on artificial intelligence.
Interdisciplinarity: Historica combines knowledge from history, archaeology, geography, anthropology, computer science, linguistics, cultural studies, philosophy, political science, sociology, and also from emerging fields today. This ensures a comprehensive, scientifically grounded view of historical development.
Decentralization: Historica is open for wide collaboration in various forms from scholars, researchers, AI specialists, and interested enthusiasts. The project aims to create a global non-hierarchical community, each participant of which would contribute freely to the digital footprint of human history.
Reliance on AI: In Historica, artificial intelligence plays a crucial role, processing colossal volumes of data, integrating various fields of scientific knowledge, continuously enriching the digital footprint of history with new facts. This is how disagreements in interpretations, contradictions between fields of scientific knowledge are overcome, and a state-of-the-art picture of the history of civilization is formed.
Who is Historica for?
Historica creates value for a wide range of people. In its academic direction, Historica is aimed at scientists, researchers, teachers and students, authors of educational materials, educators, developers of educational software, organizers of educational events, politicians, legislators, and administrators in science and education.
In its cultural direction, Historica is addressed to museum, archive and library workers, cultural studies scholars, art historians and specialists in the preservation and restoration of historical heritage, tourism industry workers, authors and researchers in the field of cultural and historical publications, organizers of cultural festivals and events, local communities, public organizations, PR and marketing specialists in the field of culture, as well as politicians, legislators, and administrators in the field of culture.
In its recreational direction, Historica is intended for gamers, game developers, participants in historical reconstructions, scriptwriters and producers of historical films and series, authors of historical literature, members of historical clubs and societies, educational and popular science platforms, lovers of popular history, organizers of historical events and festivals, influencers and bloggers in the field of history and culture.
Team
Serial entrepreneur seasoned in financial services with an emphasis on FX, electronic trading, and blockchain technologies. Holds a DBA from SBS Swiss Business School, leveraging knowledge to inspire entrepreneurship and foster innovation.
Business strategist with 25 years of experience, serving as an independent director in commercial and non-profit organizations. Specializes in blending system engineering and strategic management approaches, as well as applying heuristics in futures research and scenario planning.
20 years of experience in creating and managing products for growing businesses. Expertise in designing value propositions, including information products. Proficiency in market research and customer development.
SEO Specialist and Content Coordinator with a Master's Degree in Digital Marketing, graduating with honours. Proven ability to drive organic traffic, improve content, and build brands' online reputation through website optimisation and digital PR.
Master’s Degree in Digital Humanities. Experienced in machine learning and natural language processing, dedicated to developing advanced algorithms that enhance data interpretation and automate complex tasks in various tech industries.
6+ years of experience helping to build startups from 0 to 1, from pre-seed round to Series B. Worked with companies in fields such as Non-profits, KYC, E-commerce, healthcare, and mental health. User-centric design oriented, data-driven approach evangelist.
Experienced Social Media Manager and PR specialist with 5+ years, skilled in building brands and communities through engaging content for social media channels and blogs.
Our experts
Angus Russell is a Research Fellow at King’s College, Cambridge, where he works as part of the Silk Roads Programme. His PhD thesis explored the evolution of fiscal models in the regions of Eurasia conquered by the Mongol khans; more broadly, he is interested global and transnational trajectories of historical change, and through his work with Historica is looking forward to exploring how these currents interact with AI and machine learning.
Blog authors
Miray Özmutlu is an undergraduate student at Minerva University, majoring in History with a minor in Digital Practices. With a passion for delving into the intersection of technology and humanities, Miray is driven to pursue a PhD in digital humanities. Her professional interests lie in spatial and textual analysis, mainly applied to historical events and ethnographic research. Beyond academics, Miray spends most of her time reading and writing creative non-fiction; she is currently one of the editors of Napkins Magazine, the only art and culture magazine at Minerva University.
Alexandre Gefen, Directeur de Recherche (Full Research Professor) at the CNRS Theory and History of Modern Art and Literature Laboratory (UMR7172, THALIM, CNRS / University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3- Ecole Normale Supérieure), is a historian of ideas and literature. He is the author of numerous articles and essays on culture, contemporary literature and literary theory. He was one of the pioneers of Digital Humanities in France. He is the director of the Culturia IA research project, which focuses on the history and cultural issues of artificial intelligence.
Researcher | Computational Humanities | 3D mapping and Drones technologies
Learning designer and AI content specialist, interested in human-computer-interaction, cognitive science of learning, and philosophy of information. His work has been published by the Journal for the Center of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning out of Boston University, as well as the Oxford-based, Seisma Magazine. He holds a BA in Philosophy, and an MA in Education & Educational Technology.
Graduate from Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis with MA in History (Concentration in Public History) and MS in Library and Information Sciences
Maria Laura Chiacchio, born in Naples in 1971, holds degrees in Art History and Literature and a PhD in Museum Education. She has worked as a consultant for museums and archaeological sites and as a researcher on cultural heritage projects. Currently, she teaches Art History in Italian public schools.
Assistant professor at the University of Naples "Federico II"
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History Major and Religious Studies minor at Murray State University
Holds an MA in History from the University of Calgary. Her area of study was 15th to 17th-century religious dissidence in England. After several years of working in the public safety sector, Sarah is now a freelance writer, researcher, and passionate amateur historian. She is the administrator of The Tudor Book Club Facebook group and has a blog, History Tea.
Victoria Clark earned her BA in History with Highest Honors from The University of Texas at Austin in 2014. Her award-winning honors thesis provided a quantitative analysis of how the transition to capitalism was rooted in gendered divisions of labor. Her research interests encompass digital humanities, Early Modern Northern Europe, and cultural histories. Over the past decade, she has held diverse corporate roles in recruiting, sales, management, and market research.
Holds a Master's degree in Digital Humanities and a Bachelor's in Greek Philology
Master’s Degree in Digital Humanities. Experienced in machine learning and natural language processing, dedicated to developing advanced algorithms that enhance data interpretation and automate complex tasks in various tech industries.
Bay Area-based writer and editor who began her examination of how technology impacts the human experience in New York when she worked as a journalist and editor for a trade publication focused on advertising production. Since then, she has worked for a variety of tech and media companies, and cultural and academic institutions, including U.C. Berkeley and San Francisco’s Exploratorium. Her novel, Jane Is Everywhere, was published in 2018.
Julianna DeSilvia is an international historical and language researcher and educator. She has completed research focused on the benefits of a global citizenship education in high school US history classrooms and is currently focused on the intersectionality between disciplinary structures and language acquisition in educational settings.
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Complexity Scientist, Data Scientist, and Machine Learning Engineer with 15 years experience as a technical practitioner in both research and industry. She is currently working on the World School History Project, applying human-in-the-loop methods to develop a multi-perspective knowledge base of school history curricula and learning materials.
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Research Fellow at Department of Humanities, University of Catania (Italy)
The author writes about what value can be created at the intersection of historical science and AI for different types of stakeholders.
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Research Fellow at King’s College, Cambridge, where he works as part of the Silk Roads Programme.
Exploring the landscape of machine learning concepts one gradient descent step at a time by demystifying the mathematics.
Mark Humphries is a Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has published widely on various aspects of Canadian history and war and society. He is currently focused on the fur trade in North America and in exploring ways to use AI to support historical research.
Amateur historian specialising in European Medieval times with three decades of experience, and an avid collector. A thinker and practitioner, aspiring to empower historical methodology with AI technologies.
Author reflecting on the application of philosophical principles of determinism and the inherent limitation of knowledge in studying past and future social systems, drawing insights from a 25-year tenure in corporate strategy theory and practice.