Dynamic Cooperation Networks….and beyond Ana Crespo Solana Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Brussels, Friday 26th November 2010

 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: - Cooperation and Self-Organizing Commercial Networks - World Economy in the First Global Age (consolidated as a Historic System) ( ) - Connected World History: History to move away from its traditional teleological framework - Scientific and Post-nationalistic History  OBJECTIVES:  New theoretical framework in evolutionary human behaviour in History: networks and communications between different social environments  Latest frontier about methodology: Spatio- Temporal GIS …. historic data architecture on human cooperation  Digital Humanities: Spatial Data Infraestructure Primary Assumptions Hypothesis objectives Use of GIS: methodology New theoretical framework

Creation of data sets to support analysis of cooperation among merchants and others to create and sustain the trading networks of the first global age: Creation of data sets to support analysis of cooperation among merchants and others to create and sustain the trading networks of the first global age: DIGITAL HUMANITIES: What History can contribute to the study of Human Cooperation? DIGITAL HUMANITIES: What History can contribute to the study of Human Cooperation?

CURRENT OBJECTIVE: internet publication of data sets, documents and tools to further research TIPOLOGIES OF ANALYSES economic, social, and cultural factors that sustain cooperation in commercial relationships economic, social, and cultural factors that sustain cooperation in commercial relationships analysis of the impact of such cooperation on economic and social development and … analysis of the impact of such cooperation on economic and social development and … how did cooperation influence historical evolution of social environments? how did cooperation influence historical evolution of social environments? 261/ / / /28394 (Atlantic Trade Database) 261/ / / /29215 (Data model: contains information on cooperative relationships established by the agents in specific geographic locations).

Historical Based Research: new analysis Historical Analysis: Historical Analysis: –study the XVI, XVII & XVIII centuries. –sociological and economic analyses –archival data and metadata collection Topics: Topics: –individual cooperators –forms of altruism –micro-institutions to solve problems within the sphere of collective actions  PUBLICATION ON FINAL REPORT: preliminary conclusions and analyses: MODELS preliminary conclusions and analyses: MODELS evolutionary process of the system’s networks evolutionary process of the system’s networks spatial organization of collaborative networks spatial organization of collaborative networks models of cooperation among agents models of cooperation among agents system’s areas/economic regions system’s areas/economic regions spatial perception and influence of cartography spatial perception and influence of cartography

Atlantic Trade Data Base connected place: granularity on dense areas connected place: granularity on dense areas merchant networks of comunication merchant networks of comunication cooperation in long-distance trade areas: this topic needs more interdisciplinary analyses cooperation in long-distance trade areas: this topic needs more interdisciplinary analyses

Develop a unified space-time representation for modelling cooperative interactions (behaviour), trade-flows, and network dynamics within an open-source GIS: comparison among systems around trade routes comparison between the commercial activities merchants’ behaviour spaces for social interaction and exchange: houses, market places, ports… visualization: visualization: given a representation of given a representation of network dynamics trade flows cooperative interactions Model the rules governing change which account for the observed Model the rules governing change which account for the observed  structuresanomalies and relationships in datatrends featurespatterns

Visualization: representation of networks as Complex Systems: a small and a dense world

DynCoopNet Spatio-Temporal GIS An experimental prototype GIS Data Model

Analyses identifying cooperator in historical sources / and a tipology of behaviour identifying cooperator in historical sources / and a tipology of behaviour

Data about:. shipping. geographic space. trade and routes. market areas

Ship spectrum: -implies all data in reference to every geographic scale, along a ship’s journey, with the different kinds of social and economic exchanges in every port and/or place. - agents in different connected places.

A journey of the ship: “El Amable”: Social agents ……… interactions in each scale!

Thank you very much for your attention Interdisciplinary cooperation in the near future will be much appreciated by historians