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. 2023 Sep 28:3:164.
doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.16524.1. eCollection 2023.

Data Note: The Digital Ludeme Project Database

Cameron Browne  1 , Matthew Stephenson  1 , Walter Crist  1
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Data Note: The Digital Ludeme Project Database

Cameron Browne et al. Open Res Eur. .

Abstract

This document outlines the types of data collected for the Digital Ludeme Project, an ERC-funded research project that aims to improve our understanding of the development of games throughout human history through computational analysis of the available (partial) historical data of games. This document outlines how this data is collected, formatted and stored, and how it can be accessed. It is the aim of the Digital Ludeme Project to provide a data resource of unprecedented depth and scope for the benefit of historical games researchers worldwide. Special attention is paid to the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship.

Keywords: Ancient Board Games; Cultural Computing; Digital Humanities; FAIR Data Principles; Games Studies; Ludemes.

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Conflict of interest statement

No competing interests were disclosed.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Overview of the main data groups and the relationships between them.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. An Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) of the DLP Database.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.. An Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) for the Games group of the DLP database.
Figure 4.
Figure 4.. An Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) for the Rulesets group of the DLP database.
Figure 5.
Figure 5.. An Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) for the Games and Rulesets group of the DLP database.
Figure 6.
Figure 6.. An Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) for the Ludemes group of the DLP database.
Figure 7.
Figure 7.. An Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) for the Evidence group of the DLP database.
Figure 8.
Figure 8.. Overview of the DLP Server, what aspects it contains, and how these interact with each other.
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