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Title: Mission 1: Assembling and Documenting the Data

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Historical data, often of great value, lie widely dispersed and in inconsistent forms — previously inaccessible and unreadable. Digitization projects have begun to process historical data, and CHIA provides a way to coordinate this work. Print resources such as the British Parliamentary Papers and archival records from Lisbon, Rome, and Beijing await inclusion. The crowdsourcing infrastructure, Col*Fusion, may be a great step forward in linking datasets. The Col*Fusion process records data plus detailed metadata on source, place, time, specifics of the topic, and on modifications to the data. Each dataset, as incorporated, benefits from a program of digital stewardship, carefully preserving it and ensuring that users of a dataset will cite the author.

Url: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137378972_4

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Authors: Manning, Patrick

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Pages: 44-60

Volume Title: Big Data in History

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publisher Location: London

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Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Population Data Science

Countries: United States