Common Language for Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability in Historical Demography

TY - CONF

T1 - Common Language for Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability in Historical Demography

AU - Mourits, Rick

AU - Riswick, Tim

AU - Stapel, Rombert

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - One of the biggest challenges in the transition to open science is making data interoperable. Ideally, existing schemas and vocabularies are (re-)used to describe data, but these are generally problematic for historical data, as they exclude historical concepts and are insensitive to temporal variations in meaning. Therefore, the subdiscipline of historical demography has designed its own schemas and vocabularies to standardize historical data, as researchers require them to make and study large-scale reconstructions of populations and life courses. We introduce a web environment called CLAIR-HD that helps researchers to find vocabularies to standardize historical demographic data, and determine lacunae in the standardization of data within the field of historical demography.

AB - One of the biggest challenges in the transition to open science is making data interoperable. Ideally, existing schemas and vocabularies are (re-)used to describe data, but these are generally problematic for historical data, as they exclude historical concepts and are insensitive to temporal variations in meaning. Therefore, the subdiscipline of historical demography has designed its own schemas and vocabularies to standardize historical data, as researchers require them to make and study large-scale reconstructions of populations and life courses. We introduce a web environment called CLAIR-HD that helps researchers to find vocabularies to standardize historical demographic data, and determine lacunae in the standardization of data within the field of historical demography.

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-73741-1_2

DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-73741-1_2

M3 - Paper

SP - 10

EP - 29

ER -