The Ghent Database of Roman Guilds(+) will provide a tool for research into institutions for collective actions by professional groups. It will be: (1) a heuristic tool to find data on guilds and professional groups, (2) a visualisation tool to project selected data on maps of the Roman world and to create network graphs, and (3) a analytical tool to detect patterns in key characteristics of guilds and professional groups.
The database itself is being built in MSAccess, the GIS component in ArcGIS, GEPHI will be used to generate network graphs. An online version in NodeGoat is projected towards the end of 2016.