Population Reconstruction [electronic resource] / edited by Gerrit Bloothooft, Peter Christen, Kees Mandemakers, Marijn Schraagen.

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.