Book Chapter
Building a life course dataset from australian convict records: Founders & survivors: Australian life courses in historical context, 1803–1920
J Mc Calman, S Silcot, R Kippen
Population Reconstruction | Published : 2015
Abstract
Founders & Survivors is a multi-university and public collaborative project that is building a transnational and intergenerational dataset of life courses generated from the UNESCO recognised convict records of Tasmania. This chapter outlines the technical history of the project: Mass digitization and archiving online of over 100,000 images, manual scholarly transcription and the building of a prosopography database. This comprises a relational genealogy database integrated with an XML (BaseX) source database. Individual life histories are compiled dynamically from diverse sources, linked by a combination of machine matching and human judgment, and managed by an independent link management m..
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