women-streets-berlin | history hidden in the street names

women-streets-berlin is a Jupyter Notebook library. women-streets-berlin has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However women-streets-berlin has a Non-SPDX License. You can download it from GitHub.

Berlin has a great number of public spaces--streets, parks, etc--named for historical figures. While some of the famous figures from history obviously have been memorialized (e.g. Copernicus), Berlin also has hundreds of places named for figures who are not as well known, and in many cases, all but forgotten. The motivation for this project came from walking Berlin's streets and seeing the names of women I didn't recognize, and realizing that women are all-too-often erased from history. What resources exist to remember them? Furthermore, how frequently are women memorialized vs men? Who were they, and when did they live? How are those women connected to the streets and places named after them, if at all?. This project seeks to create a knowledge base that can both contextualize and quantify the history of women remembered through public space in the city of Berlin. It is my hope that by keeping the project specific, it can retain focus over generality (e.g. explicitly not Wikipedia), contribute meaningfully to an academic body of work, and serve as a model for collaborative technological workflows in the humanities.