Historiamme

Historiamme is a collaborative, open-access project and framework for documenting and analyzing historical events through a plural, source-driven approach. It treats history as a living body of knowledge produced by communities, archives, and scholars, aiming to make sources and interpretive methods transparent and reproducible.

The project originated in the early 2020s among historians, archivists, and digital-humanities practitioners who sought to address biases in traditional narrative histories by consolidating primary sources with structured metadata and cross-linguistic annotations. It operates as a network rather than a single repository, inviting contributions from institutions and individuals.

Historiamme aggregates a range of materials, including archival records, periodicals, oral histories, and digital artifacts. Each entry is built from primary sources when possible, with contextual notes, provenance, and citations. A modular taxonomy covers events, places, actors, themes, and historiographical perspectives, enabling cross-cultural comparisons. The platform supports multilingual entries and versioning to reflect ongoing scholarship.

Open-access hosting, collaborative editing, citation networks, reproducible data practices, and a governance model based on community consensus are among its core features. It emphasizes inclusive sourcing, with metadata designed to illuminate biases and gaps.

Historiamme is maintained by a rotating editorial collective and advisory boards. It has been discussed in debates over open scholarship, digital history, and the democratization of historiography, and is used in research and education to illustrate contrasting interpretations and to teach source-critical skills.

See also: Digital humanities, historiography, open access archives.