Project Home - Livius

About this project

This project aims to create an intelligent knowledge-base of historical primary sources to assist research of the past.

The idea is to index available books (by Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch, Dio etc.) in terms of: people mentioned in them, facts, places, events and the relations between them so as to allow complex queries like "which persons have been consuls in period X who were also friends of person Y" or "which Roman commanders and on what occasions have enlisted slaves for soldiers", "what were the laws on X in year Y" and so on.

The first stage of the project will be to do some "raw" indexing (just creating a database of people/places/events); the second stage will create the connections between them and the third stage will allow us to look for implications from the cross-checking of facts, inconsistencies in the sources and other such fun activities.

This will then be expanded in time scope to include as many sources of information as possible, continuing on to the present time.

How far the project has got

None

Seeking new members

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What they want to know about you before you join

- what is your interest in history?
- how do you want to be involved in this project?

What you have to agree as conditions to join

Looks like what you want to do?

You are in luck, the project wants new people.

Membership is not automatic, you have to convince the project admins that you will be an asset to it.