| The International Institute of Social History (IISH) supports and stimulates collaboratories or virtual research communities in the field of economic and social history. These communities center around specific data and research topics, such as wages and prices, strikes and other forms of labor unrest, and guild and trade unions. By stimulating online cooperation of researchers around the globe, the IISH works towards a new, empirical and non-eurocentric form of global history. Questions that emerge in the creation of collaboratories revolve around data standardization, suitable software, issues of datasharing and preservation of data |
