1historiale

1historiale is a term used in digital humanities to describe a method and set of practices for representing historical narratives as time-aware, multi-source records. It emphasizes capturing how events are interpreted differently across sources and over time, rather than presenting a single authoritative timeline.

In this approach, each historical item is a node with metadata such as date, place, and participants, plus links to primary and secondary sources. Entries may have multiple interpretations, stored as parallel branches or annotations. The data model supports versioning, provenance tracking, and relationships between events, sources, and interpretations, enabling researchers to trace how understandings evolve.

The name combines the Latin-based root historia with a numerical marker signaling a primary thread or version, and is used primarily in scholarly discussions and experimental platforms rather than as a formal standard.

Practically, 1historiale is implemented with graph databases or version-controlled documents and often integrates with digital archives and wikis. It is used in pedagogy to illustrate historiography, in research to compare narratives, and in projects aimed at reproducibility and critical source evaluation.

Related topics include historiography, digital humanities, knowledge graphs, provenance, and version control. There are no universal standards as of now, and the term remains a descriptive concept rather than a universally adopted framework.