Collaboration in Building a Global Archive:\ud Vision, practice, methodology, and analysis

We welcome readers to the initial issue of JWHI. The journal is part of a broader mission to promote the \ud collection, publication, review, and analysis of world-historical data. It focuses on collaborative discussion across \ud numerous disciplines, in order to bring together the best scholarly minds in the creation of Big Data in history. Its \ud audience is to include scholars and practitioners in every field of history and social sciences, in information science, \ud in the humanities and natural sciences