Programme Workshop 'Population Reconstruction'

02 April 2021 - 21:46

Here you can find the programme and papers of the Workshop 'Population Reconstruction'. The programme of the workshop is available in pdf format, and also in a pdf version with abstracts.The outline of the programme is as follows:  

Day 1, Wednesday 19 February 2014

Chair: Gerrit Bloothooft

09.00 - 09.30 Registration and coffee
09.30 - 10.00 Opening by Kees Mandemakers, IISH, Amsterdam
10.00 - 11.00 Keynote Peter Christen: Advanced record linkage methods and privacy aspects for population reconstruction
11.00 - 11.20 Coffee break
  Linking theory
11.20 - 12.05 Graham Kirby, Conrad de Kerckhove, Ilia Shumailov, Jamie Carson, Alan Dearle, Chris Dibben, Lee Williamson: Comparing Relational and Graph Databases for Pedigree Data Sets
12.05 - 12.50 Corry Gellatly: Reconstructing historical populations from genealogical data: an overview of methods used for aggregating data from GEDCOM files
12.50 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.45 Julia Efremova, Bijan Ranjbar-Sahraei, Frans A. Oliehoek, Toon Calders, Karl Tuyls: A Baseline Method for Genealogical Entity Resolution
  Group linking
14.45 - 15.30 Trygve Andersen, Gunnar Thorvaldsen: Record linkage in the Historical Population Registry for Norway
15.30 - 15.50 Tea break
15.50 - 16.10 Marijn Schraagen: Historical record linkage using event sequence consistency
16.10 - 17.00 General discussion on linking theory
17.00 Drinks

Day 2, Thursday 20 February 2014

Chair: Peter Christen

09.30 - 10.30 Keynote Arno Knobbe: Reconstructing Medieval Social Networks from English and Latin Charters
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
  Data cleaning and standardization
11.00 - 11.45 Nanna Floor Clausen: Danish Demographic Database – principles and methods for cleaning and standardization of data
11.45 - 12.30 Ivo Zandhuis, Menno den Engelse, Edward Mac Gillavry: Dutch historical toponyms in the Semantic Web
12.30 - 13.15

Graham Kirby, Jamie Carson, Fraser Dunlop, Alan Dearle, Chris Dibben, Lee Williamson, Eilidh Garrett, Alice Reid: Automatic Methods for Coding Historical Occupation Descriptions to Standard Classifications

13.15 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.45 Gerrit Bloothooft, Marijn Schraagen: Learning name variants from true person resolution
  Short papers on resources
14.45 - 15.05 Alexander Buczynski, Vedran Klaužer: Muster rolls of the Croatian Military Frontier as sources of historical demography
15.05 - 15.25 XingChen C.C. Lin: Challenge and prospect of combining Taiwanese historical information of social stratification and occupation database (THISCO) into HISCO
15.25 - 15.55 Tea break
15.55 - 16.05 Antero Ferreira, Carlota Santos: National Genealogical Repository - Developing a Central Database
16.05 - 16.25 Karin Hofmeester, Rombert Stapel, Richard Zijdeman: The Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, 1500-2000

16.25 - 17.00

General discussion on cleaning and standardization, and resources
19.00 - 23.00 Workshop dinner
Beems Brasserie, Rokin 74, Amsterdam

Day 3, Friday 21 February 2014

Chair: Kees Mandemakers

09.30 - 10.30 Keynote Kris Inwood: Luiza Antonie, Kris Inwood, J.Andrew Ross: Dancing with dirty data: Problems in the extraction of life-course evidence from historical censuses
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
  Life courses
11.00 - 11.45 Janet McCalman, Rebecca Kippen, Sandra Silcot, Leonard Smith: Building a Life Course Dataset from Australian Convict Records; Founders & Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context, 1803-1920
11.45 - 12.30 Francisco V. Goula, Joan-Pau Jordà, Joana M. Pujadas-Mora: Reconstructing lifespans using historical marriage records of Catalonia from the 16th and 17th centuries
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
  Short papers on linking strategy
13.30 - 13.50 John Bass, Sandra Silcot, Len Smith: Founders and Survivors linkage strategy
13.50 - 14.10 Vlad Popovici: Preliminary Steps for the Reconstruction of Transylvania’s Population in the mid-18th–early 20th Centuries
14.10 - 14.30 Catalina Torres: Issues regarding the use of the Canadian census sample of 1852 for data linkage
14.30 - 14.50 Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett: Introducing ‘movers’ into community reconstructions: linking civil registers of vital events to local and national census data: a Scottish experiment
14.50 - 15.10 Tea break
15.10 - 15.40 General discussion on life courses and linking strategy
15.40 - 16.10 Conclusions and closure

full papers: 30 minutes presentation followed by 15 minutes of discusssion
short papers: 15 minutes presentation followed by 5 minutes of discussion