During the nineties of the last century, historians and computer scientists created together a
research agenda around the life cycle of historical information. It comprised the tasks of …

In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the demand for global data on
historical family systems, both in the social sciences and in the humanities. Until lately …

Abstract Comparison and comparability lie at the heart of any comparative social science.
Still, precise comparison is virtually impossible without using similar methods and similar …

This book is a groundbreaking attempt to rethink the landscapes of the social world and
historical practice by theorising 'social haunting': the ways in which the social forms, figures …

Most complex diseases have well-established genetic and non-genetic risk factors. In some
instances, these risk factors are likely to interact, whereby their joint effects convey a level of …

The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) aims to compile life course data as
completely as possible for a representative portion of population of the nineteenth and …

Abstract The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) is a standard data format that has been
adopted by several large longitudinal databases on historical populations. Since the …

Abstract The Demographic Data Base (DDB) at the Centre for Demographic and Ageing
Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University has since the 1970s been building longitudinal …

Ik wil u in deze afscheidsrede een kort beeld schetsen van de enorme ontwikkeling die
historische databestanden met microdata de afgelopen vijftig jaar hebben doorgemaakt …

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