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Automation on Parnassus: CLIO - A Databank Oriented System for Historians [1980]
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Abstract To support several ongoing research projects the development of a general purpose system was started in 1978 at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen. This paper describes the second version of that system. Controlled by a simple scripting language, its most important features are: (a)... view more
To support several ongoing research projects the development of a general purpose system was started in 1978 at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen. This paper describes the second version of that system. Controlled by a simple scripting language, its most important features are: (a) a flexible input system combining free field and tag/content representation of data that can be structured in very complex hierarchies, (b) a retrieval system, (c) a system for the interactive coding of historical sources. (d) Various ways of entering codebook like "thesauri" provide a cheap way to recode as often as necessary material of doubtful semantics. (e) A system for nominative record linkage is provided which supports name comparisons by two classes of algorithms. Base algorithms can be adapted to suit the dialects of a particular area by a simple set of algorithm defining directives.... view less
Keywords
historical social research; data bank; data preparation
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Free Keywords
digital humanities; Historical Data Bases; nominative record linkage; CLIO
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 113-137
Journal
Historical Social Research, Supplement (2017) 29
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.suppl.29.2017.113-137
ISSN
0936-6784
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed