Kinsources

Kinsources is an open and interactive platform to archive, share, analyze and compare kinship data used in scientific research. Kinsources is not just another genealogy website, but a peer-reviewed repository designed for comparative and collaborative research. The aim of Kinsources is to provide kinship studies with a large and solid empirical base.

Kinsources combines the functionality of communal data repository with a toolbox providing researchers with advanced software for analyzing kinship data. The software Puck (Program for the Use and Computation of Kinship data) is integrated in the statistical package and the search engine of the Kinsources website.

Kinsources is part of a research perspective that seeks to understand the interaction between genealogy, terminology and space in the emergence of kinship structures. Hosted by the TGIR HumaNum, the platform ensures both security and free access to the scientific data is validated by the research community.

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Partners

TIP - Traitement Informatique de la Parenté (Kinship and Computing)
LESC - Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative
LAS - Laboratoitre d'Anthropologie Sociale
Laboratoire de démographie et d'histoire sociale (LaDéHiS)
Centre Roland Mousnier. Histoire et Civilisation. (CRM)
CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique
EHESS - École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Collège de France
Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (Paris X)
ANR - Agence Nationale de la Recherche
TGIR Huma-Num

Project Team

KinTIP Group - Traitement Informatique de la Parenté (Kinship and Computing)

Funders

ANR - Agence Nationale de la Recherche