Data Infrastructure

The Data Infrastructure Network is interested in broadly addressing issues and themes related to creating datasets for social science history, large and small, and the infrastructure required to support them. We intend to cast a wide net when discussing “data infrastructure,” and topics of interest may include: technology, data capture, sustainability, findability, interoperability, metadata, funding, methodology, collaboration, harmonization, data linkage, and builders of the data. The Data Infrastructure Network is happy to co-sponsor relevant data-intensive sessions with other SSHA Networks, including Economics, Family History and Demography, and Historical Geography and GIS networks, and others.

2024 Sessions

• Evaluating Data Quality I
• Evaluating Data Quality II
• New Developments in Linked Data Infrastructure
• New Historical Data Reconstructions
• Databases for Quantitative History of China
• Data Infrastructure Resources Past and Present
• Designing and Evaluating Data Pipelines
• Global Histories and Data: Building Maps & Linking Data Across Time and Place
• Beyond the Census–Adding What’s Missing and Aggregating What’s There
• Labor, Patents, and Regulation: Insights from IPUMS Full Count Census Data
• Implications of New Techniques on Data Infrastructure
• IPUMS Full Count/MLP (Workshop)
• Data Confidentiality, Respondent Trust: 21st Century Issues (Round Table)

Planning 2025 Sessions

Data Infrastructure Network 2024 meeting attendees began brainstorming topics/themes and potential contributors for SSHA 2025 sessions. The planning spreadsheet is available to view here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yAhI-Zrrw9LIMx8wfuRSRbS9Naqafvh6TwEfwRcfmTc/edit?gid=1901544134#gid=1901544134. The network reps invite your contributions and are available to assist with creating a session or submitting a paper.

2025 SSHA Call for Papers: https://ssha2025.ssha.org/hps/CFP_SSHA2025.pdf

Network Representatives

• Diana Magnuson
• Rick Mourits