Dear Colleague,
You may be aware that the British Isles Historical GIS
Group based at Queen Mary and Westfied College, University of
London and the Queen's University of Belfast are currently
developing (with other collaborators) an historical Geographical
Information System populated with selected nineteenth and
twentieth century census statistics. For more details see
http://www.geog.qmw.ac.uk/gbhgis/.
The Belfast group have considerable expertise in the
digitisation of printed records using a state-of-the-art optical
character recognition system - ProLector. The group, as part of
an earlier project, have already digitised most printed Irish
census statistics resulting in datasets containing in excess of
150 million data values. Further, hospital records have been
digitised for a University of Portsmouth project and Hearth Tax
Returns for the Roehampton Institute Hearth Tax Project.
We are now interested in digitising pre-nineteenth
century printed statistical records to possibly incorporate into
the GIS. We are interested in PRINTED records with regional or
national coverage. Examples might include the Compton Census or
the 1829 Religious Returns (some of which have been transcribed
and published by local Record Societies). If you are aware of
other such transcribed and printed sources please let me know.
Please feel free to forward this message to other e-mail
lists or individual colleagues.
Best wishes,
Paul Ell
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Dr Paul Ell
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis
The Centre for Social Research
The Queen's University of Belfast
4 College Park East
Belfast
BT7 1NN
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
WWW: http://www.qub.ac.uk/ss/csr/
Phone: 01232 273408
FAX: 01232 314768
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