11th European Social Science History Conference

Zijdeman, R. L. (Chair)

IISH

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Academic

Description

Roundtable: Coding Historical Occupations

Period	02 Apr 2016

Keywords

hisco
occupations
wages
occupational coding

Documents & Links

Occupations are a crucial resource for historical research in a wide variety of fields. This presentation indicates the size of the error that is made when combining data from the two major classification schemes OCCHISCO and HISCO. Next it shows how Linked Data provides a solution to circumvent this and similar issues.