A New Historical Model

Nanohistory is a cultural network building environment where historians and scholars, or anyone, can document the connections between people, organizations, places, and things over time. It's more than just a 'social network' focused on personal relationships. It envisions a digital history that documents the smallest objects of interest to historical scholars: an event, or interaction. Defining an event can be messy, but Nanohistory sees it as something that doesn’t necessarily have a title or a name – it just is. Nanohistory automatically links these events together to form network representations of the past.

Networked Events

Historical interactions - or as we call them 'events' - are the building blocks of history-as-data, and maps historical knowledge as a network.

Entities

Six entity types: People, Organizations, Places, Things, Events, and Terms, and three more pseudo-entities: Historical Episodes, Titles, and Serial Publications.

Complex Interactions

Create history-as-data that reflects any number of historical narratives and discourse, from any number of sources, with corroborating or contesting data.