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 # The Network of Intellectual Cooperation
 *[Martin Grandjean](http://www.martingrandjean.ch) University of Lausanne*
 
+## About ##
+These are the sourcefiles of a network analysis based on the archives of the League of Nations' International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC). These data are made public and available to the community for testing, further analysis, or simply as a training data set.
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+To cite this data set: 
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+> GRANDJEAN Martin (2018). *The Network of Intellectual Cooperation*, Data set, https://github.com/grandjeanmartin/intellectual-cooperation, DOI: XXX
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+To cite the thesis:
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+> GRANDJEAN Martin (2018). *Les réseaux de la coopération intellectuelle, la Société des Nations comme actrice des échanges scientifiques et culturels (1919-1927)*, Université de Lausanne, XXX p.
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 ## Data ##
 
 **> FILE 1** Here's the data