Abstract
Abstract This article presents the Networked Pantheon, a relational database of biographies of globally famous people spanning the last 5,500 years of human history. This information source is intended to complement Pantheon 1.0 (Yu et al., 2016), a dataset that includes temporal, spatial, gender, and occupational information on 11,341 world-renowned people – defined as those who have biographies available in more than 25 languages on Wikipedia. The Networked Pantheon adds information about the biographical links between these historical figures, compiled from hyperlinks between the biographies in the English Wikipedia. This digital method enables techniques from network analysis to be used in studying the biographical relationships between globally famous people. Thus, distinct measures of historical centrality can be calculated for individuals, cities, countries, genders, and occupations. The Networked Pantheon includes indicators of figure centrality in the network of biographical references and provides an approximation of the information flows between various territories, genders, and occupations of famous people over time.
Highlights
There has been growing scientific interest in the organization of the knowledge stored in Wikipedia
Link Data The hyperlinks between the Wikipedia biographies of 11,340 historically famous individuals contained in the original Pantheon Database (Yu et al, 2016)3 were extracted using the R software packages rvest (Wickham, 2016) and stringi (Gagolewski, 2020)
In the complete group of biographies, the minimum – min(nl × pr) – and maximum – max(nl × pr) – values of the non-normalized bci, normalization was carried out using this formula: BCI = _m_(a_Nx_L(_N _×L_P _×R_P)_R−_)_ m_ −_i nm_(_iNn_L(_N _×L_P×_RP_)R__)
Summary
There has been growing scientific interest in the organization of the knowledge stored in Wikipedia. Following a series of pioneer studies in the area (Michel et al, 2011; Murray, 2003; Popescu & Grefenstette, 2010; Schich et al, 2014; Skiena & Ward, 2013), a remarkable database for conducting these types of research was published in 2016 This is Pantheon 1.0, a dataset of globally famous people that includes information about the 11,341 biographies present in more than 25 language versions of Wikipedia (Yu et al, 2016). Using the number of languages in which each biography is available as a proxy for its global cultural relevance, this dataset gathers indispensable information that historically locates recognized personalities (such as the year, city, and geographic coordinates of birth), data on the personal characteristics of each individual (e.g., gender and main occupation), and indicators of their historical popularity In this way, Pantheon 1.0 enables the multidimensional study of the organization of the world’s biographical knowledge in Wikipedia, facilitating the exploration of the temporal, spatial, gender, and occupational aspects over an enormous timeframe (3,500 BC – to date). Research data journal for the humanities and sociDaolwnslocaideednfcroemsB5rill(.c2o0m2101/)025/200-261502:00:24PM
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
