Bennett James S, Mutch Erin, Tollefson Andrew, Chalstrey Ed, Benam Majid, Cioni Enrico, Reddish Jenny, Zsambok Jakob, Levine Jill, Cook C Justin, Francois Pieter, Hoyer Daniel, Turchin Peter
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria.
Sci Data. 2025 Feb 12;12(1):247. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-04516-9.
The scientific understanding of the complex dynamics of global history - from the rise and spread of states to their declines and falls, from their peaceful interactions with economic or diplomatic exchanges to violent confrontations - requires, at its core, a consistent and explicit encoding of historical political entities, their locations, extents and durations. Numerous attempts have been made to produce digital geographical compendia of polities with different time depths and resolutions. Most have been limited in scope and many of the more comprehensive geospatial datasets must either be licensed or are stored in proprietary formats, making access for scholarly analysis difficult. To address these issues we have developed Cliopatria, a comprehensive open-source geospatial dataset of worldwide states from 3400BCE to 2024CE. Presently it comprises over 1600 political entities sampled at varying timesteps and spatial scales. Here, we discuss its construction, its scope, and its current limitations.
对全球历史复杂动态的科学理解——从国家的兴起与扩张到其衰落与覆灭，从它们通过经济或外交交流进行的和平互动到暴力对抗——其核心要求对历史政治实体、它们的位置、范围和存续时间进行一致且明确的编码。人们已经进行了多次尝试，以制作具有不同时间深度和分辨率的政体数字地理汇编。大多数尝试的范围都有限，而且许多更全面的地理空间数据集要么需要授权，要么以专有格式存储，这使得学术分析难以获取。为了解决这些问题，我们开发了Cliopatria，这是一个涵盖公元前3400年至公元2024年全球各国的全面开源地理空间数据集。目前它包含1600多个在不同时间步长和空间尺度上采样的政治实体。在此，我们讨论其构建、范围和当前的局限性。
