The Historical Letters model reconstructs communication and archiving processes in the Republic of Letters — the 15th- to 17th-century form of scholarly exchange — including a pruning process that simulates the loss of letters over time. This document is the full ODD-protocol (Objectives, Design, Details) write-up: everything needed to understand, reproduce, or extend the model, aimed at historians who want to formalize their own assumptions about the letter-sending process.
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- Authors: Malte Vogl, Jascha Schmitz, Bernardo S. Buarque, and Aleksandra Kaye
- Venue: Zenodo, Document v1.0.1 (2024)
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11277767
- Model code: CoMSES Computational Model Library (Version 1.1.0)
- Featured image: screenshot of the model’s web interface