Project resources: where to find them
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This page provides a list of resources related to the Seshat project, what they are and where to find them.
This includes publications, code repositories, datasets, websites and shared drives.

Seshat websites explained
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1. `seshat-db.com <https://seshat-db.com>`_ is the Seshat data website.

    - Here you can log in as an admin, researcher, Seshat expert or public user to access Seshat data via the website or API.

    - This site is managed by the Seshat Databank Admins; primarily Majid Benam. See the `team <team.rst>`_ page for more info.

2. `seshatdata.com <https://seshatdata.com>`_ is a test website which looks and behaves like the Seshat data website, but is used for testing new features before they are deployed to the main website.

3. `seshatdatabank.info <https://seshatdatabank.info>`_ is the project information website.

    - This provides external facing information about the Seshat project, its goals, and the team behind it.

    - This site is managed by Elizabeth Hempstead at the University of Oxford. Contact Pieter Francois to make changes to this site. See the `team <team.rst>`_ page for more info.


Academic publications
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A full list of academic publications associated with the Seshat project team is available at `seshatdatabank.info/academic-publications <https://seshatdatabank.info/academic-publications>`_.

.. list-table:: Third party publications
   :header-rows: 1

   * - Link
   * - `Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32409638/>`_


GitHub organisation
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The Seshat project has it's own organisation on GitHub at `github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank <https://github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank>`_.
Here you can find public repositories for the Seshat website and documenatation, the Seshat API Python package and the Cliopatria dataset.

There is a second GitHub organisation at `github.com/seshatdb <https://github.com/seshatdb>`_ which contains some repositories containing data and/or scripts for generating data for Seshat publications and data downloads (see below).

.. note::

    - For more information on the using Seshat website codbase, see the `Seshat Databank Admin <admin/index.rst>`_ pages.
    - There are also pages on using the `Seshat API python package <python_api.rst>`_ and the `Cliopatria dataset <cliopatria.rst>`_.


Data downloads & code
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Navigate to the `Replication datasets <researcher/datasets.rst>`_ page for a list of datasets associated with the Seshat project, download links and links to code repositories that can reproduce the methodology used to generate the data downloads.

Navigate to the `Code from Seshat publication supplementary materials <researcher/projects.rst>`_ page for a list of Seshat projects which include re-usable anaylysis scripts hosted on GitHub, Zenodo and OSF.

Methods and codebook
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The `project information website <https://seshatdatabank.info/methods/world-sample-30>`_ contains information on the methods used to collect and encode data for the Seshat Global History Databank.

Shared drives
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See the `backup <admin/backup.rst>`_ page for the shared drive used to store backups of the Seshat database.