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Title: HAG-GIS: A spatial framework for geocoding historical addresses
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Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: The Digitising Scotland (DS) project aims to digitise the 24 million vital events record images (births, marriages and deaths) for all residents in Scotland since 1855 (ie transcribe them into machine encoded text). This will allow research access to information on individuals and their families for those who have ever lived in Scotland between 1855 to the present day. In this paper we present the methodology for geocoding these 24 million historical addresses in Scotland from 1855 to 1974 by introducing the Historical Address Geocoder – GIS (HAG-GIS) spatial framework and its matching algorithms implemented for the needs of the DS project. The matching processes link the historical addresses to the contemporary addresses by exact and fuzzy matching algorithms. Apart from geocoding the historical addresses, we also produce pseudo registration district boundaries using the pilot historical addresses from death event records in 1950 and 1951.
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Authors: K, Daras; Z, Feng; C, Dibben
Publisher: University of St Andrews, University of Edinburgh
Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS
Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Other
Countries: United States