SoNAR – Social Network Analysis and Related Research
Project object
The project develops a research data marketplace for historical network research. In the future, several hundred million machine-readable statements about actors—such as individuals and organizations—as well as their social relationships will be made accessible in a bundled form. To achieve this, heterogeneous datasets from archives, libraries, and museums are integrated into a unified social knowledge graph. Researchers who investigate historical questions using digital methods currently have to laboriously compile relevant data from scattered sources. SoNAR creates a central, reusable infrastructure to address this challenge.
Project term
2025–2028
Project participant(s)
Institute of Library and Information Science at Humboldt University of Berlin
Third-party-funding
SoNAR is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation – 558129968)
Contact
Gerhard Müller
Department IIE: News Media and Photograph Collection
Project Lead
Tel.: +49 30 266 43 4071
gerhard.mueller@sbb.spk-berlin.de
Felix Ostrowski
Department IDM: Information and Data Management
IT Coordinator
Tel.: +49 30 266 432 310
felix.ostrowski@sbb.spk-berlin.de
Project Website
https://sonar-project.sbb.berlin
