LONGPOP

LONGPOP stands for the project Methodologies and Data mining techniques for the analysis of Big Data based on Longitudinal Population and Epidemiological Registers. LONGPOP is a project within the framework of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network within the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Commission. LONGPOP is a consortium of high profile universities, research institutions and companies located in Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Switzerland. Principal investigator is Diego Ramiro Fariñas based at the Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, Madrid).

LONGPOP focuses on the rapidly changing European societies. These transformations cover changes in family structures, fertility, the decline of mortality and increase of longevity, and periods of economic and social instability. However, in order to work with these types of datasets one requires advanced skills in both data management and statistical techniques. LONGPOP aims at creating a network in which the different research teams share experiences, construct joint research, create a training track for specialists in the field and increase the number of users of these large– possibly underused – databases, making more scientists and stakeholders aware of the richness in the databases.

In total 15 so-called ‘Early Stage Researchers’ are positioned at the mentioned institutions, of whom two at the IISH. One of them, Francisco Anguita, works on the documentation and extension of IDS related extraction software and one, Diogo Paiva, works on methods of standardizing addresses. Together they worked on the linking of HSN Research Persons with the American censuses.

In 2017 Francisco Anguita and Diogo Paiva gave three presentations on the first results of the linkage, one at the workshop ‘The Systematic Linking of Historical Records’ at the University of Guelph (Canada), and two at two different seminars at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

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The LONGPOP project started in 2016 and will take 4 years.