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HSNDB - databases for historical and contemporary research

19 May 2021 - 15:06

HSNDB-HSN

IISH Research | HSN | Products

80000 life courses based on population registers and vital events between of those born between 1811-1922

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HSNDB-LINKS

HSN Projects | LINKS

Vital events from 1811-1920 linked as life course data and family pedigrees

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HSNDB-OVERSAMPLES

Data dummy 2

Dozens of HNSDB-OVERSAMPLES add sub-population data to the HSNDB-HSN. Contact us to create your own.

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Spotlight

It saddens us to share with you that our colleague Ben, Benjamin Mouwes, has passed. Ben ...

The HSNDB is being used for hundreds of publications in social and economic history, demography, sociology and health, including more than a dozen PhD dissertations. Also, HSNDB data and tools serve the general public's quest for finding their ancestors via the Central Bureau of Genealogy's "who was who" and supports the Electoral Council (Kiesraad) in presenting their time series.

  • Check out our scholar.hsndb.nl database of pulications
  • We're hiring! New internships and voluntary positions available
  • New big data special issue in honour of Kees' devotion to the HSNDB
  • More news...

HSNDB-PLACES

NLGIS map

Place names and municipalities from 1811 till today from registers, raw, cleaned, standardized and enhanced with Amsterdam Code and longitude and latitude

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HSNDB-RELIGIONS

IISH Data | Linked International Classification of Religions (LICR)

Religions as indicted in registers, raw, abriviated, standardized and harmonized. Ideal for your own data cleaning.

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HSNDB-OCCUPATIONS

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Raw, cleaned, standardized and HISCO, HISCLASS, HISCAM, OCC1950 enhanced occupational titles in multiple languages

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Uses of the HSNDB

The HSNDB can be used for a wide variety of reearch topics. Check out these summary pages on what others have used the HSNDB for:

  • mortality
  • ... (more will follow soonishly!)

HSNDB-BURGERLINKER

The tool 'Burgerlinker' allows cultural heritage institutes to link persons to the civil registries, providing more context to their archival sources.

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HSNDB-DATA-SERVICES

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Maintained and supported by HuC-DI, HSNDB provides data entry software for your project and supports new data collections

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HSNDB-IDS

IISH Data | IDS-MESO HSN

The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) allows is a metadata format on top of HSNDB datasets that allow for easy conversion of datasets for modeling and interoperability to other (large) databases

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Governance

HSN Presentations | Jan Kok Jan Kok presenting at History Days of the Netherlands | (2017)

The board and steering groupHSNDB is supervised by a community of national and international scholars.

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