The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database and the Baix Llobregat Demographic Database. From Algorithms for Handwriting Recognition to Individual-Level Demographic and Socioeconomic Data
The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database (BHMD) gathers records of the more than 600,000 marriages celebrated in the Diocese of Barcelona and their taxation registered in Barcelona Cathedral's so-called Marriage Licenses Books for the long period 1451–1905 and the BALL Demographic Database b...
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The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database (BHMD) gathers records of the more than 600,000 marriages celebrated in the Diocese of Barcelona and their taxation registered in Barcelona Cathedral's so-called Marriage Licenses Books for the long period 1451–1905 and the BALL Demographic Database brings together the individual information recorded in the population registers, censuses and fiscal censuses of the main municipalities of the county of Baix Llobregat (Barcelona). In this ongoing collection 263,786 individual observations have been assembled, dating from the period between 1828 and 1965 by December 2020. The two databases started as part of different interdisciplinary research projects at the crossroads of Historical Demography and Computer Vision. Their construction uses artificial intelligence and computer vision methods as Handwriting Recognition to reduce the time of execution. However, its current state still requires some human intervention which explains the implemented crowdsourcing and game sourcing experiences. Moreover, knowledge graph techniques have allowed the application of advanced record linkage to link the same individuals and families across time and space. Moreover, we will discuss the main research lines using both databases developed so far in historical demography.
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| spelling | doaj-art-cf4094ad6b00455688926f633c1877a32025-02-02T16:08:18ZengInternational Institute of Social HistoryHistorical Life Course Studies2352-63432022-06-011210.51964/hlcs11971The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database and the Baix Llobregat Demographic Database. From Algorithms for Handwriting Recognition to Individual-Level Demographic and Socioeconomic DataJoana Maria Pujadas-Mora0Alícia Fornés1Oriol Ramos Terrades2Josep Lladós3Jialuo Chen4Miquel Valls-Fígols5Anna Cabré6Open University of Catalonia & Center for Demographic Studies, Autonomous University of BarcelonaComputer Vision Center, Autonomous University of BarcelonaComputer Vision Center, Autonomous University of BarcelonaComputer Vision Center, Autonomous University of BarcelonaComputer Vision Center, Autonomous University of BarcelonaCenter for Demographic Studies, Autonomous University of BarcelonaCenter for Demographic Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database (BHMD) gathers records of the more than 600,000 marriages celebrated in the Diocese of Barcelona and their taxation registered in Barcelona Cathedral's so-called Marriage Licenses Books for the long period 1451–1905 and the BALL Demographic Database brings together the individual information recorded in the population registers, censuses and fiscal censuses of the main municipalities of the county of Baix Llobregat (Barcelona). In this ongoing collection 263,786 individual observations have been assembled, dating from the period between 1828 and 1965 by December 2020. The two databases started as part of different interdisciplinary research projects at the crossroads of Historical Demography and Computer Vision. Their construction uses artificial intelligence and computer vision methods as Handwriting Recognition to reduce the time of execution. However, its current state still requires some human intervention which explains the implemented crowdsourcing and game sourcing experiences. Moreover, knowledge graph techniques have allowed the application of advanced record linkage to link the same individuals and families across time and space. Moreover, we will discuss the main research lines using both databases developed so far in historical demography. https://hlcs.nl/article/view/11971Individual demographic databasesComputer visionRecord linkageSocial mobilityInequalityMigration |
| spellingShingle | Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora Alícia Fornés Oriol Ramos Terrades Josep Lladós Jialuo Chen Miquel Valls-Fígols Anna Cabré The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database and the Baix Llobregat Demographic Database. From Algorithms for Handwriting Recognition to Individual-Level Demographic and Socioeconomic Data Historical Life Course Studies Individual demographic databases Computer vision Record linkage Social mobility Inequality Migration |
| title | The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database and the Baix Llobregat Demographic Database. From Algorithms for Handwriting Recognition to Individual-Level Demographic and Socioeconomic Data |
| title_full | The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database and the Baix Llobregat Demographic Database. From Algorithms for Handwriting Recognition to Individual-Level Demographic and Socioeconomic Data |
| title_fullStr | The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database and the Baix Llobregat Demographic Database. From Algorithms for Handwriting Recognition to Individual-Level Demographic and Socioeconomic Data |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database and the Baix Llobregat Demographic Database. From Algorithms for Handwriting Recognition to Individual-Level Demographic and Socioeconomic Data |
| title_short | The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database and the Baix Llobregat Demographic Database. From Algorithms for Handwriting Recognition to Individual-Level Demographic and Socioeconomic Data |
| title_sort | barcelona historical marriage database and the baix llobregat demographic database from algorithms for handwriting recognition to individual level demographic and socioeconomic data |
| topic | Individual demographic databases Computer vision Record linkage Social mobility Inequality Migration |
| url | https://hlcs.nl/article/view/11971 |
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