RICardo source example of Importations / expotrations table

The RICardo Project

Trade between Nations from c. 1800 to 1938

RICardo (Research on International Commerce) is a project dedicated to trade between nations over a period spanning the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the eve of the Second World War.

It combines a historical trade database covering all of the world’s countries and a website which invites to an exploration of the history of international trade through data visualizations.

How to cite

In any papers or publications that utilize this work, please cite as follows:

The database

Dedinger, Béatrice, et Paul Girard. 2017. « Exploring trade globalization in the long run: The RICardo project ». Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 50 (1): 30‑48. doi:10.1080/01615440.2016.1220269.

Links to the paper at Historical Methods and to our preprint version: 01-May-2016

The exploration tool

Girard, Paul, Béatrice Dedinger, Donato Ricci, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou, Mathieu Jacomy, Guillaume Plique, et Grégory Tible. 2016. « RICardo Project : Exploring XIX Century International Trade ». In Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts, 208‑10. agiellonian University & Pedagogical University, Kraków, Poland.
http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/177

Links to our presentation slides et vers l'abstract en français

Open Science

Tools and data produced in the RICardo project are in free access:

Source code of the exploration tool

The source code of this application is available on github under license AGPLv3

https://github.com/medialab/ricardo

RICardo corpus

The data that have been collected, cleaned and structured in this project are freely accessible on github under license ODbL http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/ https://github.com/medialab/ricardo_data

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