CONTENT:
The files are a first attempt to extract SNA data from the Chinese Biographical Database.
They were produced as part of the workshop on Social Network Analysis for the Study of East Asian Religion (http://sna2018.mbingenheimer.net), at the National University of Singapore, Aug 2018.
The data (Version April 2018) was obtained via the XML API, then transformed into a gexf node-edge format, extracting (some of) the kinship and social association information.
As the resulting network exceeds the current limits of what Gephi can process, two experimental tranches containing the actors that can be placed in the Ming and Qing respectively have been created. Though still large, those can be explored in Gephi.

cbdb_nodes-edges2018-08.gexf
cbdb_nodes-edgesMing2018-08.gexf
cbdb_nodes-edgesMing2018-08_giantComponent.gephi
cbdb_nodes-edgesQing2018-08.gexf
cbdb_nodes-edgesQing2018-08_giantComponent.gephi


AUTHORS:
Marcus Bingenheimer, Simon Wiles

DATE:
Aug 2018

COPYING / LICENSE:
The data is to be credited to:
Harvard University, Academia Sinica, and Peking University, China Biographical Database (January 1, 2018), https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb.
These files are published under a CC BY-SA 4.0
