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.