Measuring human capital: from worldcat identities to viaf

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• who: Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae and collaborators from the Construction of the relational database of scholars and literati active in medieval and early modern European academia started in We harvested data from secondary sources on the history of universities and academies. For each scholar in the database, we searched manually for links in Wikipedia and in WorldCat. Using the content of Wikipedia and WorldCat, we computed a heuristic human capital index for each person in the database using a principal component analysis. More precisely, the individual human capital index ud835udc5eud835udc56 of an individual ud835udc56 is given by . . .
  

   

  

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