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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...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
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 reconstructed digitized population consists of three major phases, reflected in the three main sections of this book. The first phase involves transcribing and digitizing the data while structuring the information in a meaningful and efficient way. In the second phase, records that refer to the same person or |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9783319198835 3319198831 9783319198842 331919884X |
| Index Number: | HB871 |
| CLC: | C921 |
| Call Number: | C921/P831-1 |
| 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 -- |