SPACK : spatio-temporal database dedicated to whaling, sealing and fishing in Saint-Paul, Amsterdam, Crozet and Kerguelen Islands between 1780's and 1930's

• Main Authors: Bocher, Elsa, Bocher, Erwan
• Other Authors: Temps, Mondes, Sociétés (TEMOS), Le Mans Université (UM)-Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Equipe DECIDE (Lab-STICC_DECIDE), Laboratoire des sciences et techniques de l'information, de la communication et de la connaissance (Lab-STICC), École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne (ENSTA Bretagne)-Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Bretagne Loire (UBL)-IMT Atlantique (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT)-École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne (ENSTA Bretagne)-Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Bretagne Loire (UBL)-IMT Atlantique (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: Whaling; Sealing; Fishing; Southern Islands; Database; History; [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History; Kerguelen Islands
• Online Access: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04481730; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8380677

International audience SPACK is a spatio-temporal database dedicated to whaling, sealing and fishing history . It aims to gather miscellaneous and scattered sources about whaling, sealing and fishing voyages that visited Saint-Paul, Amsterdam, Crozet and Kerguelen Islands between 1780’s and 1930’s. SPACK has been defined and populated during a PhD thesis in history. The main purpose is to assess the attendance of whaling, sealing and fishing ships around the French Southern Islands from the late 18th century. The goal is also to shed light on the issues arising from the first public policies for managing natural resources once French sovereignty was affirmed in the late 19th. The data collected in SPACK are stored in the object-relational database, PostgreSQL, plus its spatial extension PostGIS. This repository can be used to create a new instance of the SPACK database. It contains 7 SQL files that represent the main tables of the SPACK model. - attested_presence_areas: this table shows the dates on which the vessel is present in the area. - code_areas: this table indicates the codes used to identify each covered area. - code_sealing_gangs: this table shows the code used to indicate when a gang of hunters has been dropped off or relieved on shore by the ship. - natural_resources: this table provides the codes used to classify vessel activity by 'area'. - shipment_origin: this table lists the codes for the main shipowner's geographical origin. - stop_over_voyages: this table describes the date of arrival and departure by 'area'. It also indicates the degree of interpolation of the data, month or day. - voyages_areas: this table contains a list of vessels involved in whaling, fishing and sealing activities that crossed Saint-Paul, Amsterdam, Crozet or/and Kerguelen islands. It provides information such as vessel name, rig type, tonnage, port, shipment origin, natural resource exploited, agent, dates of presence, primary and secondary sources. The main entity of this database is a ship attached to a voyage and a ...