Population reconstruction. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gerrit Bloothooft, Peter Christen, Kees Mandemakers, Marijn Schraagen, editors.
• Editors: Bloothooft, Gerrit; Christen, Peter; Mandemakers, Kees; Schraagen, Marijn
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 302 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 304.6072; Social sciences; Demography; Demography -- Methodology; Population research; Demography; Demography -- Methodology; Population research; Demografi -- metodik; Computers -- Database Management -- Data Mining; Computers -- Computer Science; History -- General; Social Science -- Statistics; Computers -- System Administration -- Storage & Retrieval; Data mining; Humanities; History; Social research & statistics; Information retrieval; Data mining; Information systems; History; Statistics; Information storage and retrieva; Social Science -- Demography; Population & demography; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319198842; 3319198831; 9783319198835
• Related ISBNs: 331919884X; 9783319198835
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 29, 2015).
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