Kinsources
Kinsources is an open and interactive platform to archive, share, analyze and compare kinship data used in scientific research. Kinsources is not just another genealogy website, but a peer-reviewed repository designed for comparative and collaborative research. The aim of Kinsources is to promote kinship studies with a common large and solid empirical base for research.
Kinsources combines the functionality of communal data repository with a toolbox providing researchers with advanced software for analyzing kinship data. The software Puck (Program for the Use and Computation of Kinship data) is integrated in the statistical package and the search engine of the Kinsources website.
Kinsources is part of a research perspective that seeks to understand the interaction between genealogy, terminology and space in the emergence of kinship structures. Hosted by the TGIR HumaNum, the platform ensures both security and free access to the scientific data is validated by the research community.
Started by Mike Fischer at the Center for Social Anthropology and Computing at the University of Kent (CSAC) in cooperation with LAS at the University of Paris, Kinsources is currently developed within a research project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), involving research institutes University of Nanterre, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), as well as CSAC at the University of Kent (UKC), the University of California at Irvine (UCI), the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) at Nijmegen, Netherlands.
The aim of the project is the development of an open interactive online platform for archiving, sharing, analysing, and comparing kinship data (genealogies, terminologies and residential data) used in scientific research (particularly in anthropology, history and demography). Combining the functions of an archive of primary sources with those of a toolbox providing advanced software for their analysis, the project forms part of a research perspective aiming to understand the interactions between genealogy, terminology and space in the emergence of kinship structures. The platform is hosted by the TGIR (very large research infrastructure) Huma-Num, thus uniting the principles of secure data storage, open access, and scientific quality control, while at the same time allowing for continuous data completion and software improvement by authors and developers. Having as its medium-term objective to bring together a large part of the kinship data used in international scientific research, the platform will constitute an important and innovative research instrument providing kinship studies with both a solid empirical basis and an integrated analytical framework.
Research team project partners
 | TIP - Traitement Informatique de la Parenté (Kinship and Computing) http://www.kintip.net/ |
 | LESC - Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie René-Ginouvès 21 allée de l’université 92023 Nanterre cedex – France http://www.mae.u-paris10.fr/lesc/ |
 | LAS - Laboratoitre d'Anthropologie Sociale 52 rue du Cardinal-Lemoine 75005 Paris – France http://las.ehess.fr/ |
 | Laboratoire de démographie et d'histoire sociale (LaDéHiS) Centre de recherche historique (CRH) UMR 8558 EHESS-CNRS 190, avenue de France 75013 Paris – France http://www.ehess.fr/ldh/ |
 | Centre Roland Mousnier. Histoire et Civilisation. (CRM) UMR 8596, CNRS – Université de Paris-Sorbonne 1, rue Victor Cousin 75230 Paris cedex 05 – France http://centrerolandmousnier.fr/ |
Institutional partners
 | CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique 3, rue Michel-Ange 75794 Paris cedex 16 – France http://www.cnrs.fr/ |
 | EHESS - École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales 190-198, avenue de France 75244 Paris cedex 13 – France http://www.ehess.fr/ |
 | Collège de France 11, place Marcelin Berthelot 75231 Paris Cedex 05 – France http://www.college-de-france.fr/ |
 | Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) 1, rue Victor Cousin 75005 Paris – France http://www.paris-sorbonne.fr/ |
 | Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (Paris X) 200, Avenue de la République 92001 Nanterre Cedex – France http://www.u-paris10.fr/ |
Research partners
 | ANR - Agence Nationale de la Recherche 212, rue de Bercy 75012 Paris – France http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/ |
 | TGIR Huma-Num 4, rue Lhomond F – 75005 Paris – France http://www.huma-num.fr/ |
Associated Research Laboratory
 | Centre d’Etudes des Mondes Africains (CEMAf) UMR 8171 Université Paris I – Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes – Université de Provence – CNRS http://www.cemaf.cnrs.fr/ |
 | Centre de recherche et de documentation sur l’Océanie (CREDO) UMR 7308 Aix-Marseille Université – CNRS – EHESS http://www.pacific-credo.fr/ |
 | Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques (INED) http://www.ined.fr/ |
 | Center for Social Anthropology and Computing University of Kent at Canterbury http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/ |
 | School of Social Science University of California at Irvine http://www.socsci.uci.edu/ |
 | Department of Anthropology University of California at Los Angeles http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/ |
 | Institut Max Planck de Psycholinguistique http://www.mpi.nl/ |
Website development associates
 | DEVINSY – Services Company in Free Software 91300 Massy – France http://www.devinsy.fr/ |
 | Aurélie Martial – Graphic Designs 94110 Arcueil – France http://www.aureliemartial.fr/ |