Population Reconstruction

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bloothooft, Gerrit (Editor), Christen, Peter (Editor), Mandemakers, Kees (Editor), Schraagen, Marijn (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval.; Application software.; Statistics.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.; History, general.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Information Storage and Retrieval.

This book addresses the problems that are encountered, and solutions that have been proposed, when we aim to identify people and to reconstruct populations under conditions where information is scarce, ambiguous, fuzzy and sometimes erroneous. The process from handwritten registers to a reconstructe...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Data quality: 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 data: Problems in the extraction of life-course evidence from historical censuses
• 12 Using the Canadian censuses of 1852 and 1881 for automatic data linkage: a case study of intergenerational social mobility
• 13 Introducing ‘movers’ into community reconstructions: linking civil registers of vital events to local and national census data: a Scottish experiment
• 14 Linking strategies for building a life course dataset from Australian convict records; Founders & Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context, 1803-1920.