Population Reconstruction

by Gerrit Bloothooft (editor)

Part I Data cleaning and standardization.- 1 The Danish Demographic Database - principles and methods for cleaning and standardization of data.- 2 Dutch historical toponyms in the Semantic Web.- 3 Automatic methods for coding historical occupation descriptions to standard classifications.- 4 Learning name variants from inexact high-confidence matches.- Part II Record linkage and validation.- 5 Advanced record linkage methods and privacy aspects for population reconstruction - a survey and case studies.- 6 Reconstructing historical populations from genealogical data files.- 7 Multi-source entity resolution for genealogical data.- 8 Record linkage in the Historical Population Registry for Norway.- 9 Record linkage in Medieval and early modern texts.- Part III Life course reconstruction.- 10 Reconstructing lifespans through historical marriage records of Barcelona from the 16th and 17th centuries.- 11 Dancing with dirty Problems in the extraction of life-course evidence from historical censuses.- 12 Using the Canadian censuses of 1852 and 1881 for automatic data a case study of intergenerational social mobility.- 13 Introducing 'movers' into community linking civil registers of vital events to local and national census a Scottish experiment.- 14 Linking strategies for building a life course dataset from Australian convict records; Founders & Australian Life Courses in Historical Context, 1803-1920.

314 pages, Paperback

First published August 4, 2015